ketorolac

Before starting this medication, make sure a healthcare professional teaches you how to give yourself ketorolac eye drop so that you avoid accidentally hurting yourself or wasting the medication. Carefully read on how to give yourself the eye drops. Contact your prescriber or pharmacist if you have any questions.

Wash your hands before putting ketorolac eye drop in your eyes. Don't touch the dropper tip with your eye, hands, or any other surface. This will help you avoid eye infections by preventing contamination of the solution.

Once you're ready to place the drops, tilt your head back and look up. Then, pull your lower eyelid down to form a pocket with one hand. Take the ketorolac eye drop bottle and give yourself a drop using the other hand. After, close your eye and press one finger to the inner corner of your eye by the nose and press lightly for 1 minute.

Use ketorolac eye drop exactly as prescribed. If you're preparing for eye surgery, timing of medication eye drops is very important, so make sure you know when to start taking it. Don't take ketorolac eye drop for more than 2 weeks following cataract surgery, or more than 4 days after cornea surgery, unless your prescriber tells you to do so.

If you need to use multiple different eye products in the same eye, separate each eye product from ketorolac eye drop by at least 5 minutes. This makes sure your eye(s) absorb each medication fully.

If you wear contact lenses, take them out before using ketorolac eye drop so your eye(s) can absorb all of the medication. Your eye specialist might instruct you to wait at least 15 minutes before putting your lenses back into your eye(s).

Store ketorolac eye drop at room temperature in the original bottle it came in from the pharmacy.

If you're pregnant, tell your healthcare team before using ketorolac eye drop. You should avoid using ketorolac eye drop if you are late in your pregnancy, since the medication might affect the health of your child.