Medication is sometimes necessary to treat eye conditions and vision problems. Of course, this is highly dependent on the ...

Medications for glaucoma usually come in the form of medicated eye drops. Macular degeneration is an incurable eye disease in which the central portion of the retina, the macula, deteriorates.

Most medications, including eye drops, include preservatives to help keep bugs and bacteria out. As Benner notes, they're meant to protect consumers, but they may not always be the best choice.

But medicated eye drops may do just that. In a five-year clinical trial conducted in Singapore, drops of a drug called atropine seemed to slow the progression of nearsightedness in children.