Levomekol - antibacterial and anti-inflammatory drug effective when used topically on wounds, non-healing ulcers and acne. Doctors also recommend to use Levomekol panaritiums at the hands and feet.
Components and shape medication
Levomekol is released in the form of ointment contains 7.5 mg of chloramphenicol and 40 mg per gram methyluracil uniform mixture. The supporting cast is represented by polyethylene glycols. White ointment, tolerance of yellowness.
medicinal properties
When panaritiums ointment Levomekol has a complex inflammatory, antimicrobial and restorative effect.
Chloramphenicol in a preparation has antimicrobial properties due to the ability to disrupt protein synthesis in bacterial cells. Antibiotic copes well with staph, strep, and E. coli.
Methyluracilum, as a second active agent formulation, helps cells recover the damaged areas of the skin and accelerates repair. It has a moderate anti-inflammatory effect.
Shaping the composition is also involved in the treatment process. Polyethylene glycols absorb allocation wounds, increase the therapeutic effect of the active substances.
Levomekol readily penetrate through the epithelial layer, but it is unknown whether it is able to penetrate into the systemic circulation.
Indications for
It is recommended to use in the treatment of Levomekol felon, as well as the following diseases:
- wounds with purulent discharge;
- wounds infected by mixed types of bacteria;
- long non-healing ulcers;
- bed sores;
- internal acne;
- burns with infection.
When panaritiums medicine surgeon appointed only after the diagnosis of the skin at the site of the lesion. Treatment is carried out at home.
General rules for the application
Levomekol in therapy felon allowed adults and children from the age of three. With levomekol make compresses or applied without a sterile bandage directly on the surface of the lesion.
It is recommended to use the drug on the first day of visiting felon. Long term treatment is not recommended, since the ointment can disrupt osmosis in the adjacent healthy skin cells. On the fifth day of treatment should be changed by means other medication preparation for healing skin.
Regimen panaritium
Treatment felon levomekol carried out under the scheme:
- washed with pure water at room temperature panaritium place;
- blotted dry with a towel or cloth;
- Ointment applied at the finger;
- blotted movements processed felon.
Conduct felon processing procedure must be two or three times a day. Additionally, the physician may prescribe treatment affected area ointment Wisniewski, methyluracyl ointment levomekol after application.
This method of applying the ointment is used from the first day of the disease. If treatment is started immediately, ointment Levomekol from felon finger is used like this:
- sterile gauze folded into several times;
- blotted obtained gauze compress ointment;
- impose a compress on the spot lesions of the skin;
- coated polyethylene film to prevent spreading of the ointment.
Keep the compress is necessary throughout the day. Rebandage fresh ointment should be daily for four days of treatment.
Contraindications
During the application of an ointment to avoid contact with mucous membranes. Do not take if you are allergic to components of the ointment substance and in psoriatic skin lesions. Contraindication are eczema and mycotic skin diseases.
sources:
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