But I bet you didn’t know that while these drugs may work to some degree, they can also cause damage to your precious eyes.

A recent study in Israel established this shocking revelation that consumption of prescription pills containing a chemical compound known as Isotretinoin, intended to reduce acne correlate with increased risk of developing various eye-problems, such as pink-eye, styes, cataracts, and dryness of the eyes’ moisture content.

Sadly, your idea of a ‘safe brand’ doesn’t help much either. That ingredient is also responsible for other serious health effects such as delayed bone-growth in teenage population, recurring nose-bleeds, hair loss, memory loss, and miscarriages and babies with birth-defects (such as heart defects and mental retardation at birth) in pregnant women.

To give you the exact degree of correlation between these anti-acne pills and eye risks, we have to go back to that Israeli study conducted on 15000 adolescents and young-adults.

Within a year of starting the drug, eye problems cropped up in 14 percent of the people under observation.

In acne-free segment this figure was as low as 7 percent, while in the segment that was affected with acne but did not consume Isotretinoin, the figure was still substantially lower at 9.6 percent.

A professor at Oregon Health and Science University suggests that parents consult an ophthalmologist before allowing their children to take these drugs.

He also recommends regular eye check-up for these youngsters so that any impending danger can be detected earlier and thus the risk of a permanent damage can be reduced.

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