07-07-2025
BREAKING NEWS Urgent warning issued as drug chiefs recall common eye drops due to risk they could cause BLINDNESS
Health officials have urgently recalled over 11,000 eye drops due to manufacturing issues that may have made the products unsterile that could leave patients blind.
UK medicines watchdog the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) slapped an alert on one batch of Zaditen 0.25mg/ml eye drops, used to treat seasonal allergies such as hay fever.
It is feared the drug may have been contaminated during manufacturing, causing side effects including conjunctivitis and inflammation of the cornea and eyelid.
Left untreated, these conditions can cause permanent eye damage and even blindness.
But the MHRA, which published the alert today, said it had not yet received any complication or reports of harm from patients who had taken the commonly-prescribed eye drops.
The recall only impacts one batch of the 5ml eye drop solution, manufactured by Laboratoires Théa, with the batch number 4V64 and an expiry date of September 30 2026.
