Indometacin

General characteristics. Structure:

Active agent: indometacin - 10%, a dimethyl sulfoxide, cholesterol, stearyl alcohol, white wax, lanolin, vaseline.
Description: Drug represents homogeneous ointment of yellow or brown color, with a characteristic smell.

Pharmacological properties:

Indometacin renders local anesthetic, antiinflammatory and antiedematous action.
At external use eliminates pain, reduces hypostasis and an erythema, promotes reduction of morning constraint and a swelling of joints, promotes increase in volume of movements.

Indications to use:

Rheumatology: rhematoid polyarthritis; acute, chronic, muscular and joint rheumatism; other inflammatory diseases of joints with degenerative changes; osteoarthritis, osteoarthrosis, coxarthrosis, spondylarthrosis, other arthroses and arthritises, bursitis, tendinitis, tendovaginitis, synovitis, gout; Bekhterev's disease; inflammatory acute diseases of soft tissues.
Neurology: backbone pains, neuralgia, mialgiya, diskopathy, neuritis, plexitis, radiculitis, etc.
Surgery and traumatology: a traumatic inflammation of soft tissues and a musculoskeletal system, postoperative hypostases without disturbance of integrity of skin.
Angiology: superficial thrombophlebitises, limfangita.

Route of administration and doses:

OUTWARDLY!
Ointment is rubbed a thin layer in skin of painful body parts by 2-3 times a day. Total quantity in day should not exceed 15 cm of ointment for adults and - for children 14 years are more senior than 7,5 cm.

Side effects:

At long use local side effects are possible: itch, reddening, rash.
It is necessary to report to the attending physician about all side (unusual) effects, including, not specified in the instruction!

Contraindications:

Hypersensitivity to indometacin and components of drug, aspirin or other NPVS; stomach ulcer and a duodenum in a phase of an aggravation, disturbance of coagulability of blood of not clear etiology, pregnancy and the period of feeding by a breast, children up to 14 years.
Preventions: Drug should be applied only on the unimpaired sites of skin. To avoid hit of ointment on open wounds, in eyes and other mucous membranes. At long treatment (more than 10 days) to check a blood picture (number of leukocytes and thrombocytes). Depending on a medicine combination (with antibiotics, anticoagulants, antidiabetic means and so forth) to exercise the corresponding clinical and laboratory control.
It is necessary to be careful at simultaneous use of drug with other NPVS and at the patients having bronchial asthma, allergic "hay" cold, polyps mucous a nose.

Storage conditions:

In the place protected from a direct sunlight, at a temperature of 15 - 30 °C. To store in the place, unavailable to children. Period of validity 2 years. Not to use drug expired.

Issue conditions:

According to the recipe

Packaging:

Ointment for external use in tubes on 40 g.