Expert opinion: Can this new made-in-India eye drop actually help you get rid of your glasses?

If you find yourself squinting your eyes too often when looking into your phone, reading labels, menus, or even books, it's more likely than not that you suffer from presbyopia. These new eye drops claim to do away with the need for reading glasses Mumbai-based Entod Pharmaceuticals appears to have an answer with their latest launch, the PresVu Eye Drops. Recommended by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation and finally approved by the Drug Controller General of India, the eye drops primary claim that it will eventually eliminate the need for using reading glasses. To gain further insight, we consulted Dr. Purendra Bhasin, MBBS, MS in Ophthalmology, and founder and director of Ratan Jyoti Netralaya Ophthalmic Institute & Research Centre, for his expert take on the eye drops' efficacy. Further pressing on how the buffer technology and pH factor, which is being pegged as a major selling point of the eye drops, weighs in here, he said, "The buffering technology and the pH balance they have used, is to make the drops less stringent.