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Tobradex vs. Vigamox

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

Moxifloxacin (Vigamox) is a fluoroquinolone antibiotic that treats bacterial conjunctivitis (pink eye) in people of all ages. It's an eye drop that's placed in the affected eye(s) 3 times per day for 7 days. Side effects aren't common but can include dry eye, eye pain, eye redness, and itchy eyes. This medication is available as a brand-name and generic version.

• Bacterial conjunctivitis (pink eye)

• Eye inflammation or redness (up to 6%)
• Blurry vision (up to 6%)
• Dry eye (up to 6%)
• Eye irritation, pain, or itching (up to 6%)
• Watery eye (up to 6%)

• For use in the eye only
• Risk of developing new infection
• Don't wear contact lenses
• Severe allergic reaction