A patient comes to the ophthalmology clinic for a follow-up appointment. The nurse suspects that the patient is not compliant with pilocarpine for treatment of open-angle glaucoma. Which finding would support this assumption?
a. The patient has miosis.
b. The patient has mydriasis.
c. The patient reports that her eyes are sensitive to light.
d. The patient reports that her skin is sensitive to the sun.
B
Dilated pupils (mydriasis) indicate that the patient is not using the eye drops, because pilocarpine causes constriction of the pupils.
Miosis, or constriction of the pupils, would be expected with pilocarpine usage.
Sensitivity of the eyes to light is associated with beta blockers, not pilocarpine.
Sensitivity of the skin to sunlight is not associated with medications used to treat glaucoma.
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