Safety-First Formulation
Ask a pharmacist about mercury preservatives and the carton settles it in one line: Bausch + Lomb states no Thimerosal for the bottle and the tube alike. You reach for that tube at 3 a.m. with the question already closed.
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Two formats cover the full day. You place 1 to 2 drops of the 5% sodium chloride solution every 3 to 4 hours, or as your doctor directs. At bedtime a thin ribbon of ointment goes inside the lower lid. Your eyelid then slides free of the cornea at 3 a.m. instead of tearing at it.
Corneal erosion that recurs does not end with one good night: buyers describe restocking the same 0.12 oz tube in March and again in July. Pick up a tube today and you hold a sodium-chloride hypertonicity formula first mixed in 1958 at Muro Pharmacal Laboratories, made by Bausch + Lomb without a break since 1986. Read the carton beside any comparison page and one line narrows everything: the FDA OTC monograph permits temporary relief of corneal edema, and nothing wider.
A verified reviewer managing dry eye and nightly corneal sticking describes 10 years of the bedtime ribbon without a repeat episode, after other lubricating ointments failed. That is one person's eye history, not a result you should expect. Switch from the daytime bottle to the bedtime tube and the strength stays at 5%, so only the vehicle changes. Carry both to your ophthalmologist and let that appointment set which one you run, and on what interval.
For plain daytime dryness with no swelling, reach for preservative-free artificial tears instead, since this salt formula is built for edema. You keep the bottle for the days your vision fogs and the tube for the nights your lid catches, or whatever split your doctor writes.
Read the pages here beside the carton in your hand and they line up: the same 5% strength in the bottle and the tube, the same single monograph claim, the same maker's name under the dosing panel. Nothing on this site widens that claim. Where buyer reviews add something the label does not carry, such as the sting or the hour of blur, the account is marked as a buyer report rather than a label fact.