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Hello, my mom is a RA patient and her Rhemutologist has prescribed her HCQ 200 along with other medicines. But I read at a few places that HCQ can cause damage to the other eyes, so I wanted to know if that is true even if taken under a medical expert? Also if it has a side effect as dangerous as causing harm to eyes then why it's given by most of the doctors in treatment of RA?
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Although this should have been discussed with her Rheumatologist Nevertheless just to let you aware that HCQ CAN rarely cause retinopathy hence every 5 year patient should have OCT scan to keep an eye on impending retinopathy features. Retinopathy due to HCQS is very rare.
P.S: PARACETAMOL can cause liver failure so why Dr prescribe it? Well everything has side-effects but clinicians do assess pros and cons and take a wise decision and sometimes rationale may not be easily understandable to common public.
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There is a safe dose with every medicine..as with hcqs..its rarely seen with dis dose..but still during follow up we do recommend eye screening if it's required...
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