The medicine Celestoderm. Instructions

The drug "Celestoderm" (the instruction informs) is available in the form of a cream or ointment. It is a glucocorticosteroid drug used in dermatology.

One gram of ointment or cream contains one milligram of betamethasone valerate. The drug has no smell, does not leave unwanted traces on clothes, it is easily washed off. It quickly penetrates the skin and, accordingly, immediately begins to act.

Pharmaceutical means "Celestoderm" instructions for use characterize as an effective anti-inflammatory, antiallergic and antipruritic medicine, which has good tolerability.

This drug is used to treat eczema (it is a neuro-allergic skin disease with itchy and wetting inflammation), dermatitis, anogenital itching, neurodermatitis (an illness caused by malfunctions in the central nervous system), sun dermatitis, psoriasis and other skin diseases.

Medication Celestoderm. Instructions for use

The drug is applied to the affected areas of the skin or mucous membranes two to three times during the day. If necessary, a waterproof bandage can be applied.

The Celestoderm drug (the instruction focuses on this particular attention) with regular and prolonged treatment can cause such local changes in the skin, such as thinning and the appearance of atrophic bands (especially with the use of occlusive dressings or in the seizure of skin folds).

This medication is not used to treat pink and juvenile acne vulgaris, as well as primary viral infections of the skin - bubble lisha, chicken pox and others. In addition, the drug is not prescribed for skin lesions fungal or bacterial infection - candidiasis, trichophytosis, impetigo; With dermatosis in patients younger than a year and diaper rash. The drug "Celestoderm" during pregnancy is also contraindicated.

In the absence of the proper effect of the use of this drug within two weeks, treatment should be discontinued and other appropriate therapy should be selected for the patient. It should be borne in mind that with secondary microbial infection of the skin shows the appropriate antifungal and antibacterial treatment.

It is not recommended to use this remedy for a long period and at high doses, since this is fraught with the development of the systemic action of the main active component, betamethasone.

In pediatrics, this drug is used solely on the advice of a specialist and under his supervision, because against the background of its administration, there may be such side effects as suppression of the functioning of the pituitary-adrenal system and the manifestation of symptoms of excessive hormone formation in the adrenal cortex (hypercorticism). In addition, there was a decrease in the release of growth hormones and an increase in the level of intracranial pressure.

Cream "Tselestoderm" with garamycin (active ingredients - gentamycin and betamethasone) is used for atopic or seborrheic dermatitis, diffuse neurodermatitis, lichen, anogenital or senile itching, diaper rash, psoriasis, erythroderma, red planus , dyshidrosis.

This medication is contraindicated in patient hypersensitivity, skin tuberculosis, cutaneous manifestations of syphilis, chicken pox, simple herpes, vaccination, post-vaccination reactions, and during breastfeeding. With special care and only in cases of emergency is prescribed in the early stages of pregnancy.

The drug goes on sale in tubes of five or fifteen grams.