Lumigan is made known to everyone in the year 2001, approved by the Food and Drug Administration as the only treatment for Elevated Intraocular Pressure (IOP) and Glaucoma. Lumigan eyelash growth treatment is actually discovered through the course of lumigan medication for glaucoma.
Lumigan was firstly known by consuming public as a treatment for eye hypertension or so called elevated intraocular pressure leading to glaucoma. However, the effect of lumigan did not stop in glaucoma treatment; it has extended its function to eyelashes which was eventually uncovered by medical experts. The leading substance of lumigan which contributes to amazing results is the bimatoprost.
Bimatoprost is a prostaglandin analog, a lipid compound which can be found at any parts of the body. Although the bimatoprost that can be found in the lumigan eyelash growth treatment is only synthetic or just formulated at laboratories, this substance still has the capacity to do what the naturally-occurring prostaglandins could do.
As for glaucoma or elevated intraocular pressure, lumigan works by increasing the drainage of the trabecular meshwork in the eyeballs or the eye chambers. Glaucoma or elevated IOP is caused by the altered flow of eye fluid or so called aqueous humor. Aqueous humor can be found around the eyeballs, it enables the smooth movement of the eyeballs inside the eyes enabling a person to look wherever direction he wanted to. When this fluid is blocked and clogged at the eye chambers, it causes the increase of eye pressure, and when not taken immediate medication, this would lead to glaucoma or serious damage of optic nerves and would gradually result to impair vision or even loss of vision. And when this occurrence is treated with lumigan, the aqueous humor will be drained out through the eye chambers, the flow of aqueous humor will then be back to its proper flow and eventually the pressure in the eyes will reduce.
However, lumigan eyelash growth treatment works as receptors in the eyelid, which stimulates the hair follicles and enabling the newly grown eyelash to stay longer at the anagen phase, this phase is where the eyelash is at its peak and healthy growth.
Normally, lumigan for glaucoma is directly dropped inside the eyes, and the lumigan eyelash growth treatment is applied into the upper eyelid only. With the continuous application of lumigan inside the eyes, change of iris color is proved to happen and pigmentation of the skin surrounded the eyelid is possible when the solution is constantly applied to the eyelid.
Actually, there are still many changes which are likely to happen when someone is under lumigan medication, like eye redness, eye irritation, burning sensation in the eyes when the solution is dropped, swelling of the eyelid, swelling of the front eye, headache and dizziness. Yet, these changes are temporary, when the solution is constantly used, gradually the body will get adjusted to the solution and the changes would somehow alleviate.
When severe changes happened apart form the mentioned effect of lumigan, consult your physician immediately to avoid further damage.