Викс the Asset Balm with menthol and an eucalyptus
Producer: Teva (Tev) Israel
Code of automatic telephone exchange: R05X
Release form: Soft dosage forms. Ointment.
General characteristics. Structure:
Active agents - left menthol of 2,75 g, camphor of 5,00 g, eucalyptus oil of 1,50 g, terpentinovy oil of 5,00 g.
Excipients - methyl-isopropyl phenol, cedar oil, paraffin white soft.
Description
Ointment from white till yellow-white color with a characteristic smell.
Pharmacological properties:
The combined drug which effect is caused by the components which are its part. Has local irritative, antiinflammatory and antiseptic effect. Decrease in degree of a congestion of a nose at single putting drug is observed till 8 o'clock.
Pharmacokinetics. Data are absent.
Indications to use:
In complex therapy of the inflammatory respiratory diseases which are followed by cold, feeling of a congestion of a nose, cough and a pharyngalgia.
Route of administration and doses:
External use (grinding).
Only for adults and children 2 years are more senior.
To rub ointment the easy movements 2-4 times a day in breast skin at cold and a congestion of a nose; in neck skin at cough and a pharyngalgia; in back skin at cough. Treatment duration on average up to 5 days.
Features of use:
Not to swallow. Not to apply drug on skin in a nose and/or faces.
It is necessary to avoid hit of drug in eyes, on mucous membranes of a nose, an oral cavity.
At accidental hit of ointment in eyes and on mucous membranes plentiful washing is recommended by water.
Use of drug does not exert negative impact on ability to performance of potentially dangerous types of activity demanding the increased concentration of attention and speed of psychomotor reactions (including driving and other vehicles, work with moving mechanisms, etc.).
Never to heat drug and not to apply it in a heated state.
After grinding the clothes covering the field of putting drug should not be strongly tightened.
If the health does not improve within 5 days or it becomes worse, it is necessary to see a doctor.
Side effects:
Allergic reactions, laryngospasm, bronchospasm, irritation of skin in the field of putting drug, dacryagogue are possible.
Interaction with other medicines:
It is not studied.
Contraindications:
Hypersensitivity to drug components, tendency to laringo-and to a bronchospasm, bronchial asthma, whooping cough, a false croup (the acute stenosing laryngotracheitis), the cough caused by accumulation of a phlegm (slime), the long or chronic cough caused by smoking or emphysema, damages of integuments and skin diseases in the field of alleged putting drug, children's age up to 2 years.
Use at pregnancy and during breastfeeding
Due to the lack of experience of use for pregnant women and the feeding women purpose of drug is not recommended to this group.
Overdose:
Symptoms: irritation of skin in drug sites of application, a bronchospasm, a laryngospasm.
Treatment: the excess amount of ointment can be removed by means of gauze or the tissue moistened with vegetable oil. At bronkho-or a laryngospasm it is necessary to see a doctor immediately.
Storage conditions:
At a temperature not above 25 °C. To store in the place, unavailable to children. Period of validity 4 years. Not to use after a period of validity.
Issue conditions:
Without recipe
Packaging:
Ointment for external use.
On 25, 50 and 100 g in bank from polypropylene with a cover from polypropylene. Each can together with the application instruction is placed in a cardboard pack.