Eye - Nightmares with topical beta-blockerLetter to the Journal Published: 01 September 2000 Nightmares with topical beta-blocker A. Negi, D. Thoung & F. Dabbous Eye 14, 813–814 (2000) Cite this ...

African-American patients as a group have been known for some time to be less responsive to topical beta-blockers than whites, so this finding has potential therapeutic significance.

Interactions: Avoid other topical beta blockers. May potentiate, or be potentiated by, other CNS depressants, systemic beta blockers, reserpine, quinidine, SSRIs, other CYP2D6 inhibitors.

Although topical beta blockers are occasionally all too effective systemically (e.g., for complications of heart block and acute asthma, etc.), oral beta blockers are generally ineffective as ...