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Tobradex vs. Floxin Otic

TobraDex (tobramycin / dexamethasone) is available as eye drops and an eye ointment. It's used to treat and relieve bacterial eye infections. This medication contains tobramycin (an aminoglycoside antibiotic that helps fight the infection) and dexamethasone (a corticosteroid that helps lower eye inflammation). Most people have few to no side effects from the medication when they use it as directed. But the medication can raise your eye pressure if you use it for more than 10 days.

• Eye inflammation from a bacterial infection in the eye
• Eye inflammation when there's a risk for a bacterial infection in the eye

• Eye irritation
• Eye redness
• Itchy eyelids
• Swollen eyelids

• Only use on the surface of the eye
• Higher eye pressure
• New or worsened eye infections
• New eye problems (e.g., injury, cataracts)
• Possible allergic reaction

Ofloxacin is a prescription otic medication, or ear drop. It's a fluoroquinolone antibiotic that's used to treat different types of ear infections, such as swimmer's ear and middle ear infection, in adults and children. This medication is given as 5 or 10 drops into the infected ear once or twice a day for 7 or 14 days, depending on your age and the type of ear infection you have. The most common side effect is ear discomfort from applying the drops.

• Outer ear infection (swimmer's ear) in people ages 6 months and older
• Middle ear infections in children ages 1 year and older with ear tubes
• Long-term middle ear infections in people ages 12 years and older with burst eardrums

• Pain or irritation where the medication touches the ear (up to 17%)
• Itching (up to 4%)

• Use only in the ear
• Severe allergic reactions
• Risk of developing new infection