Bimatoprost is a medicine that treats high pressure in the eye (ocular hypertension) and helps with glaucoma. High pressure can happen when too much fluid builds up inside your eye. Bimatoprost helps to drain the fluid. If not treated, high pressure can damage your optic nerve and cause vision loss or blindness.
Bimatoprost ophthalmic (eye) drop is used to treat certain diseases of the eye like open-angle glaucoma and ocular (eye) hypertension which occurs in many people as they grow older. Glaucoma is caused by high pressure in your eye and can lead to pain from pressure in your eye and then can eventually harm your vision.
New research shows how the FDA-approved glaucoma drug, bimatoprost, causes human hair to regrow. It’s been commercially available as a way to lengthen eyelashes, but these data are the first to show that it can actually grow human hair from the scalp.