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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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 Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:33 am Post subject: Where can I buy VISINE? |
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| My eyes are dry and itchy, and i need some visine, do you know where i can pick some up. . . HomePlus? E-Mart? 7/11 doesnt carry any. |
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hwarangi
Joined: 17 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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You can get a generic one (안약) from most pharmacies, 3~4,000 won.
It's not as good as Visine, though. |
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| thanks, but do they make your eyes white? i dont want rewetting drops or contact solution. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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I think I've seen it at the "Dandy Grocery" (small store to your left as you enter Hannam Supermarket - which is in the basement of the Volvo building in Hannam-dong - one subway stop east of Itaewon, exit 3, I think)
Better than eye drops for countering the effect of "yellow dust" that usually gets bad in the Spring is eye wash - the pharmacy in my small town carries "Haian Eye Wash" (that includes the oval-shaped plastic cup you half-fill with boric acid solution that cleans and refreshes eyes) |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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| You can get artificial tears at any pharmacy. Same stuff. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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remember to "pass the dutchy to the lefthand side"!  |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| sojusucks wrote: |
| You can get artificial tears at any pharmacy. Same stuff. |
no... moisturizers and visine aren't the same thing. Unless you're getting the pure moisturizer visine. Visine will actually make your eyes dependent on it. If your eyes are dry get a pure moisturizer you can use anytime you want. If whatever you buy says you can only use it X times a day.. you're using something with a chemical in it that causes your eyes to be white. It constricts the blood vessels. Don't use that. Genuine moisturizer could be used 50 times a day if you want. |
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 11:15 am Post subject: |
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| well, i went to the pharmacy and they didnt have any. I look stoned, and i want my eyes white again. can anyone tell me for sure where and what store they sell it. (thanks to the poster above, but Itaewon is a bit far for me.) |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Radius wrote: |
| well, i went to the pharmacy and they didnt have any. I look stoned, and i want my eyes white again. can anyone tell me for sure where and what store they sell it. (thanks to the poster above, but Itaewon is a bit far for me.) |
What? Many of the posters on here live in Itaewon and know little about Korea outside of Itaewon. 
Would any eye regular drops do? Any pharmacy would have them. |
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eIn07912
Joined: 06 Dec 2008
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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Where?....... At a pharmacy. 약 signs are everywhere.
Jeez, you noobies are hopeless. |
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Forever
Joined: 12 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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| ask your pharmacist for "AZELASTINE - OPHTHALMIC DROPS" - it clears your eyes ( 아제란 6ml) |
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thomas pars
Joined: 29 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| ask for "noon mul" don't use it often though, any artificial drops increses your chance of glacoma. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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I need Antihistimine Eye Drops for the spring time due to allergies.
They do not sell them over the counter in Korea. I usually get my relatives to mail be like 3-4 bottles of Visine-A or a generic eye drops with Antihistimine.
Works great. When your eyes are red/watery/itchy from the pollen, regular eye drops does absolutely nothing. |
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