Benzyl benzoate

General characteristics. Structure:

Active ingredient: 10 mg or 20 mg of benzyl benzoate in 100 g of ointment.

Excipients: троламин (trietanolamine); stearic acid; macrogoal 400 (poly(ethylene oxide)); the water purified.

Pharmacological properties:

Pharmacodynamics. Antiscabetic drug for external use. Has toxic effect concerning an itch mite. Causes death of larvae and adult individuals of itch mites.

Pharmacokinetics. Gets into upper layers of epidermis, it is not soaked up in a system blood stream.

Indications to use:

Ointment is applied to treatment of itch.

Route of administration and doses:

The course of treatment proceeds 4 days.

In the first day processing is carried out in the evening before going to bed after careful washing under a shower warm water with soap. Ointment is rubbed in skin of hands, then a trunk and legs, including soles and fingers. After processing of skin it is necessary to use only fresh linen and clothes. For the 2nd and 3rd day do a break in treatment, at the same time the remains of ointment do not wash away from skin. For the 4th day in the evening of the patient washes with soap and carries out embrocation as in the first day, using the remained ointment and once again changes all linen.

Hands after processing should not be washed within 3 hours; in the subsequent hands process ointment after each washing. In case of washing off of ointment from other sites their leather need to be processed repeatedly. Ointment is completely washed away from skin for the fifth day of treatment.

Features of use:

Treatment of the patients revealed in one center and also contact persons, has to be carried out at the same time to avoidance of repeated infection.

Preservation of an itch after treatment is not the indication for purposes of an additional course of specific therapy. The itch is reaction of an organism to the killed tick and products of his life activity and disappears at purpose of antihistaminic drugs and ointments with glucocorticosteroids.

After treatment medical control within 2 weeks, and in the presence of complications and longer time is necessary.

All objects which adjoined to the infected skin have to be subjected to careful processing. Bedding and linen, towels boil in solution of laundry detergent within 5-10 minutes.

Outerwear is ironed on both sides the hot iron. The things which are not subject to heat treatment hang out on open air for 3 days. Footwear, toys and other objects exclude from use for 5 days and place in a cellophane package. Mattresses, pillows, blankets are also excluded from use for 5 days and are exposed to chamber disinfection. Upholstered furniture can be processed drugs for disinfection. In the apartment it is necessary to carry out cleaning, mopping with detergents at addition of disinfectants.

It is necessary to avoid hit of drug in eyes, a nose, a mouth.

At drug hit:

- in a mouth: to rinse a mouth plentifully water or 2% warm solution of hydrosodium carbonate (baking soda);

- in a stomach: the stomach is washed out by 1%-2% solution of hydrosodium carbonate (baking soda), water mix of burned magnesia and absorbent carbon;

- in eyes: to wash out carefully water or 1%-2% of hydrosodium carbonate (baking soda).

Side effects:

Local reactions: perhaps (especially at children) a burning sensation, irritations of skin, allergic reactions.

Contraindications:

Children's age up to 3 years, pregnancy, the feeding period a breast, hypersensitivity.

Storage conditions:

In the dry, protected from light place, at a temperature not above 20 °C. To store in the place, unavailable to children. A period of validity - 3 years. Not to use after the date specified on packaging.

Issue conditions:

Without recipe

Packaging:

Ointment for external use of 10% and 20%. Ointment on 25 g in a tuba aluminum with bushony. Each tuba together with the application instruction is placed in a pack from a cardboard. Drawing the text of the application instruction directly on a pack is allowed.