Clotrimazolum Medana 10 mg / ml is a cutaneous liquid with a wide range of antifungal activity.
The drug is intended for topical application to the skin. Unless your doctor tells you otherwise, usually a few drops of the liquid are lightly rubbed 2 to 3 times a day on the affected areas of the skin. After the acute symptoms of the disease have resolved, treatment should be continued for at least 4 weeks until the symptoms have completely resolved. In tinea pedis, the drug should be used for two more weeks after all symptoms of the disease have disappeared to prevent its recurrence.
The active substance is clotrimazole. Each ml of cutaneous fluid contains 10 mg of clotrimazole. The other ingredients are isopropyl myristate, anhydrous ethanol.
The active substance of Clotrimazolum Medana is clotrimazole, a drug from the group of imidazole derivatives with a wide range of antifungal activity. It has a fungistatic effect at low concentrations, and a fungicidal effect at high concentrations.
Fungal skin infections caused by dermatophytes, yeasts, tinea versicolor, onychomycosis.
The preparation is not recommended for use if the patient is allergic to clotrimazole or any of the other ingredients of this drug, as well as in the first trimester of pregnancy, under an occlusive dressing or around the eyes.
Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before using Clotrimazolum Medana.
Avoid contact of the drug with the eyes and mucous membranes.
You should not scratch itchy diseased areas of the skin, as this spreads the fungus.
Avoid wearing clothes and shoes that do not let moisture and heat pass through.
After washing and bathing, the affected areas should be thoroughly dried.
Clothing in contact with the lesions and towels should be changed daily and washed at 90 ° C (it is recommended to use disposable towels).
Tell the doctor or pharmacist about all the drugs that the patient is taking now or recently, and about the drugs that the patient is going to take. Clotrimazole may inhibit the effects of other topical antifungal drugs, especially polyene antibiotics such as nystatin and natamycin, reducing the effect of amphotericin B. Topical corticosteroids reduce the effect of clotrimazole.
The drug cannot be used in the first trimester of pregnancy. In the second and third trimesters of pregnancy, the use of the drug is possible only on the express recommendation of a doctor. In women who are breastfeeding, use of the drug is only possible on the express recommendation of a doctor.
Use of the drug in children and adolescents
In children up to 11 years of age, the drug can only be used on the recommendation of a doctor.