Eye Injections and needles

On February 28, the company that manufactures aflibercept, a drug used for injections in the eyeball, said that it had some bad lots of product. These lots can cause inflammation (not infection) in the eyes of patients receiving injections. It seems that the bad product is NOT related to the actual drug itself. The problem lies with the syringes included in the packages with the medicine. The company has recommended against the use of syringes included in the 8 lots that they have identified. This is important information for anyone who is a patient receiving eye injections and for any doctor giving eye injections. This problem is only associated with the packages of aflibercept sold by the company, and it is definitely not related to other eye injections/medicines. Situations like this are the reason that I always insist that patients know the names of the medications in their eye injections.