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Gevkamen

Гевкамен - противовоспалительная мазьGevkamen – the antiinflammatory drug on a vegetable basis used at muscle and joints pains.

Pharmacological action of Gevkamen

Gevkamen is means with the local irritative action caused by the components which are its part: oils of an eucalyptus and flowers of a carnation, camphor, menthol (sometimes it is replaced with mint oil). When drawing on skin drug influences nerve terminations, having the anesthetizing and distracting effect.

Eucalyptus oil in pure form anesthetizes, is often applied to processing of burns, wounds, frost-bitten skin.

Oil of a carnation is known the warming, anesthetizing and antiinflammatory action.

Camphor is included in composition of ointment because of its ability to stimulate blood supply.

Menthol has the moderate disinfecting and local anesthetizing effect, cools.

Oil of mint is also known the anesthetizing action, beneficial influence on vessels.

Gevkamen excipients: paraffin and medical vaseline.

Release form

Ointment of white color with a specific smell of essential oils.

Indications to ointment use Gevkamen

Appoint means for removal of pains at miozita, neuralgia (pain in neuroplexes), arthralgias (joint pains), a tendinitis (sinew pain).

Good reviews of Gevkamen applied at muscle pains, at dislocations, stretchings.

Gevkamen effectively removes means an itch after stings of insects.

Route of administration

The distracting and mestnoanesteziruyushchy effect of ointment of Gevkamen is shown if to grease sick sites two or three р / day. Necessary amount of ointment – 2-3gr.

It is possible to apply Gevkamen only outwardly.Мазь Гевкамен

Side effects

There are reviews of Gevkamen, the defiant ambassador of vtiraniye irritation of skin. In this case it is necessary to refuse drug use, to reconsider appointment.

Besides there can be a numbness, burning, a cryesthesia in places of processing by Gevkamen.

If on skin the burn appeared from behind ointment, it is necessary to stop treatment, to grease an affected area with the means containing декспантенол, for example, Bepanten.

Contraindications

In Gevkamen's instruction it is specified that it is impossible to apply him on the injured skin. It is not recommended to use ointment for treatment at hypersensitivity to the oils and other components which are a part.

Because of the content of essential oils use of ointment for treatment of children is considered undesirable.

 
 
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