PVP JOD Lichtenstein ointment, 100 g

Instructions for use for PVP JOD Lichtenstein ointment, 100 g

Application notes

Infants from 6 months, children, adolescents and adults

a sufficient amount

one to several times a day

regardless of the time of day

Application areas

Mode of action

How does the ingredient of the medicine work?

Iodine is used to improve the germ (disinfection) and to support wound healing. Iodine is effective against a variety of pathogens, such as bacteria, viruses and fungi.

Composition

Contradictions

What speaks against an application?

Always:
- Hypersensitivity to the ingredients
- Overactive thyroid
- Thyroid diseases, also in the history
- Dermatitis herpetiformis duhring (immune disease with itchy rash with bubble formation)
- Upcoming or recently completed radio iodine therapy

Under certain circumstances - speak to your doctor or pharmacist:
- Benign goiter (struma)
- Thyroid autonomy (certain form of thyroid overactive)

Which age group must be observed?
- Infants under 6 months: The drug may only be applied after consultation with a doctor or under medical check.

What about pregnancy and lactation?
- Pregnancy: Contact your doctor. Various considerations play a role in whether and how the medicine can be used during pregnancy.
- Still -time: Contact your doctor or pharmacist. He will check your special starting position and advise you accordingly whether and how you can continue with breastfeeding.

If the medicine has been prescribed to you despite a counter -notification, speak to your doctor or pharmacist. The therapeutic benefit can be higher than the risk of using the application.

Side effects

What adverse effects may occur?

Always:
- Hypersensitivity
- Acute strong allergic reaction that affects several or all areas of the body (anaphylaxis)
- Circulatory failure through an allergic reaction (anaphylactic shock)
- Spontaneous (mucus) skin swelling (angio edema)
- Overactive thyroid through excessive iodine intake
- Accelerated pulse (tachycardia)
- Restlessness (inner unrest)
- Ha hypersensitivity reactionsut, like:
- Contact dermatitis (allergic skin reactions that only occur when used repeated)
- Itching
- Reddening of skin
- Bladder formation
- Pain in the application location
- Warm feeling

Under certain circumstances, when taking larger amounts of the active ingredient, e.g. for burns and long -term use:
- Disorder of the salt balance
- Changed concentration of water -binding substances (osmotic) in the blood
- Impaired kidney function
- Disorder in the metabolism with acidification of the blood (metabolic acidosis)

If you notice a disorder or change during treatment, contact your doctor or pharmacist.

For information at this point, side effects are taken into account that occurs in at least one of 1,000 patients treated.

Hints

What should you consider?
- There can be medicinal products with which interactions occur. Therefore, you should generally provide the doctor or pharmacist before treatment with a new medicine. This also applies to medicines that you buy yourself, only apply occasionally or that the application has been available for some time.

Detailed instructions for PVP JOD Lichtenstein ointment, 100 g

Field of use

• This medicine is a povidon iodine-containing, germicidal agent (antiseptic) for antimicrobial skin and wound treatment.
• It serves as an antiseptic for repeated, temporary use in the case of damaged skin, such as: B. Decubitus (pressure ulcers), ulcus cruris (lower leg ulcer), superficial wounds and burns, infected and super infected skin diseases.

Active ingredients / ingredients / ingredients

100 mg povidon iod
10 mg iodine
Macrogol 400 auxiliary material (+)
Macrogol 4000 auxiliary substances (+)
Water, cleaned auxiliary material (+)

Contradictions

• The medicine must not be used
  • if you are hypersensitive to povidon iodine or one of the other components.
  • if you suffer from a thyroid disease.
  • if you are ill with dermatitis herpetiformis duhring (rare skin disease with burning, itching and different types of skin, especially on poor, legs, shoulders and buttocks).
  • if you have a radiation therapy of the thyroid with iodine (radioiodine therapy) planned or carried out (until the treatment).
  • for newborns and infants up to the age of 6 months.

dosage

• Always apply the preparation exactly according to the instruction. Please ask your doctor or pharmacist if you are not quite sure.
• The ointment is applied several times a day according to the size of the areas to be treated.
• At the beginning of the treatment, the ointment should be applied again every 4 - 6 hours to get an optimal microbizide effect.
• The ointment can remain on the wound for a long time and should be applied at the latest after decolouration.
• Notice:
  • The brown color of the ointment is a property of the preparation.
  • It shows the presence of available iodine and thus the effectiveness. If the brown color is decreased, it must be replaced, whereby a complete occupancy of the affected areas is necessary, since the ointment has a exclusively local antiseptic effect.

 

• Duration of the application
  • The duration of the application of the ointment results from the present indication.

 

• If you have used a larger amount than you should
  • the wound cannot harm this. Excess ointment outside the area to be treated should be removed with a clean cloth to avoid contamination of the clothing.
  • This preparation should only be used externally.
  • After the accidental amount of larger amounts of the ointment, medical advice must be obtained immediately, as it is a SChweren thyroid dysfunction can come.

 

• If you have forgotten the application
  • continue the treatment according to the specified dosage.

 

• If you cancel the application
  • can deteriorate the wound state.

 

• If you have any further questions about the application of the drug, ask your doctor or pharmacist.

Taking

• For external application
• The ointment is applied several times a day according to the size of the areas to be treated.
• For local, antiseptic-therapeutic application, the affected games are fully coated.

Patient information

• Special care in the application is required:
  • Because of the risk of burnberiodide estimates, Povidon iodine may not be used at the same time or at short notice with mercury derivatives.
  • Information on the influence of diagnostic studies:
    • Due to the oxidizing effect of povidone iodine, various diagnostic examinations can lead to incorrect results (including O-Toluidin and Guajakharz for hemoglobin or glucose determination).
    • Under the administration of Povidon iod, the iodine recording of the thyroid gland can be reduced. This can lead to disorders in certain thyroid thyroid tests such as thyroid scintigraphy (nuclear medicine examination of the thyroid gland), the PBI determination (indirect determination method for thyroid hormones) and the radioiod diagnosis (nuclear medical examination of the thyroid function) as well as planned radioiod therapy (treatment with radioactivity ¹³¹iodine) impossible. Until the start of a new scintigram, a waiting time of at least 1-2 weeks after stopping the povidon iodine treatment should be observed.

 

• Wateriness and operating machines
  • There are no special precautions required.

Pregnancy

• The drug should only be applied by the treating doctor until the 9th week of pregnancy after careful consideration of benefits and risk.
• After the 9th week of pregnancy and during breastfeeding, the ointment must not be used, since iodine, also from Povidon-iod, is placent agent and transferred to breast milk.

Hints

Miscellaneous

- If the brown coloring of the ointment decreases, the skin to be treated again must be broken down with fresh ointment
- Have the doctor checked by the doctor after using infants and toddlers thyroid function

Manufacturer:  Zentiva Pharma GmbH, Linkstrasse 2, 10785 Berlin