Metipranolol: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Metipranolol is a medicine sold in the U.S. under one brand. Below: what the FDA label says, every product that contains it, what the pills look like, and its recall record.
Key facts
- Available as
- Drops
- Sold as
- Optipranolol
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
Every metipranolol product we track (1)
Same active ingredient — different manufacturer, form, price and FDA recall record. That last one is what our independent score measures.
Only one: Optipranolol.
Metipranolol and breastfeeding
From LactMed, the US National Library of Medicine’s Drugs and Lactation Database — quoted, not rewritten.
Full LactMed record for metipranolol: levels in milk, effects in breastfed infants, and the drugs it would consider insteadBased on its physicochemical properties and its ophthalmic route of administration, metipranolol eye drops would not be expected to cause any adverse effects in breastfed infants. Some guidelines state that gel formulations are preferred over solutions. To substantially diminish the amount of drug that reaches the breastmilk after using eye drops, place pressure over the tear duct by the corner of the eye for 1 minute or more, then remove the excess solution with an absorbent tissue.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, record revised October 15, 2024. LactMed states its information is not a substitute for professional judgement.
What people report to the FDA about metipranolol
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 4 reports naming metipranolol, and the FDA flagged 75% of those reports as serious. The effects reported most often — leaving out reports about overdose, misuse or the condition being treated, which dominate the raw list for common medicines:
- atrial fibrillation1 reports
- atrioventricular block complete1 reports
- atrioventricular block second degree1 reports
- circulatory collapse1 reports
- device expulsion1 reports
- disorientation1 reports
- medical device complication1 reports
- sinus bradycardia1 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean metipranolol caused the effect — anyone can file one, and many describe people taking several medicines for several conditions. Crucially there is no denominator: FAERS does not record how many people took the drug, so these counts cannot be turned into “X% of patients” — a bigger number often just means a more widely used or more talked-about drug. Duplicates exist, and publicity drives reporting. For what is actually established, read the FDA label section above.
Source: openFDA drug/event (FAERS), retrieved July 25, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
Can you take metipranolol with other medicines?
It depends on the medicine. We check it against the FDA labels rather than guessing: our interaction checker searches each drug's own label for the other and quotes what it says, naming the section it came from. Run metipranolol against whatever else you take — and remember that a label not naming a drug is not the same as that combination being safe.
What forms does metipranolol come in?
Across the brands we track, metipranolol is currently marketed as drops, per the FDA's National Drug Code Directory. Each form is dosed differently — follow the label for the exact product you were prescribed.
Is there a generic metipranolol?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled metipranolol product. That does not always mean none exists — it means none appears under a generic name in the FDA data we track. Ask your pharmacist.
Cite this page
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- pharmaranks. (2026, July 24). Metipranolol: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/metipranolol
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- “Metipranolol: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/metipranolol.
We summarise public FDA and NIH sources — for a clinical claim, cite the primary source we link to as well.
Sources: FDA openFDA drug label, National Drug Code Directory, and Enforcement (recall) database. This page reproduces public FDA data and is not medical advice. Dosing is set by your prescriber.
Read the full FDA label for metipranolol on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.