Линкас® Balm

General characteristics. Structure:

Ointment Linkas Balm for external use of white color with a characteristic fragrant smell.

Active ingredients: in 100 g of ointment contains:

- left menthol of 20 g
- oil eucalyptus 6 g
- camphor of 7 g
- turpentine oil of 2 g
- oil clove 4 g

Excipients: hard paraffin, white soft paraffin.

Pharmacological properties:

Pharmacodynamics. The combined means of a natural origin. Drug renders the local irritative ("distracting"), antiinflammatory and antiseptic action.

Pharmacokinetics. As the drug Linkas® Balm has only local effect, researches of pharmacokinetics were not conducted.

Indications to use:

— as symptomatic means as a part of complex therapy of the acute respiratory diseases which are followed by cough with the hardly separated phlegm, cold, feeling of a congestion of a nose;

— at the muscular pains caused by cough.

Route of administration and doses:

Only for external use. At the SARS which are followed by cough with the hardly separated phlegm, cold, a nose congestion a small amount of ointment it is necessary to apply on skin of a breast and to rub the quiet massing movements; it is necessary to repeat the procedure 3-4 times a day; the average course of treatment makes 7 days;

At the muscle pains caused by cough, a small amount of ointment should be applied on painful area and to rub in skin the easy massing movements 3-4 times a day, a course of treatment up to 7 days; for achievement of the best result the painful area can be covered with a warm bandage.

Features of use:

Use at pregnancy and feeding by a breast. Contraindicated at pregnancy and a lactation.

Use for children. Contraindicated to children up to 18 years.

Special instructions. To avoid hit in eyes, on mucous membranes of a nose and an oral cavity, and also on the damaged sites of skin.

Influence on ability to drive the car and work with mechanisms. Drug does not influence performance of potentially dangerous types of activity demanding the increased concentration of attention and speed of psychomotor reactions (driving, etc. vehicles, work with moving mechanisms, work of the dispatcher and operator, etc.).

Side effects:

At the increased individual sensitivity allergic reactions are possible; a burning sensation, reddening and an itch in drug sites of application.

Interaction with other medicines:

It is not revealed.

Contraindications:

— hypersensitivity to drug components;

— tendency to a bronchospasm;

— damages of integuments;

— existence of skin diseases on sites of intended application of drug;

— pregnancy;

— breastfeeding period;

— age up to 18 years.

Overdose:

About overdose cases it was not reported so far.

Storage conditions:

At a temperature not above 25 °C. In the place, unavailable to children. A period of validity - 3 years.

Issue conditions:

Without recipe

Packaging:

On 25 g of ointment - bottles plastic (1) - packs cardboard.