BLASTOESTIMULINA® 1% ointment
1 tube 60 g
Composition per gram
Centella Asiatica extract 0.010 g
Neomycin (sulphate) 0.0035 g
Excipients (monostearate diethylene glycol, corn oil, lavender essence, geranium oil and purified water)
characteristics
Blastoestimulina ointment containing the active ingredient Centella asiatica, which is outstandingly suitable for care of fresh and old scars. Blastoestimulina ointment containing the native of India, medicinal plant Centella asiatica, which is used for thousands of years in Ayurvedic medicine for scar care. They say in India the story that Tiger were observed, to wallow in the plant when they were injured.
We use quality tested ingredients and the ointment is also suitable for stretch marks.
The Indian pennywort (Centella asiatica) also Asian pennywort, tiger grass or Gotu Kola is a plant in the genus Centella in the carrot family (Apiaceae). The type is used in traditional Chinese medicine and is offered more frequently in Europe lately.
The Indian pennywort found in traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic medicine in India use. He is there for wound healing, psychological disorders and atherosclerosis. In addition, he is an antibiotic, antifungal and cytostatic effect.
Asian pennywort is an effective drug for the treatment of skin injuries, especially sunburns and other minor burns, and for the prevention of scarring. Against these complaints the Asian pennywort is mainly used.
What is the purpose of the drug neomycin?
• bacterial infections before, during or after meditating prevent hiss investigations and operations of the urinary tract
• prevent infection in indwelling catheter and catheter exchange carriers
• treat inflammation and bacterial infections in the genital area
• bacterially infected wounds or eczema of the skin in skin infections treated
• Yeast infections of the skin treated supportively
• alleviate symptoms in itching, inflamed skin, burns and severe sunburn
• bacterial infections related eye mitbehandeln
Areas of application of the active ingredient: neomycin
The drug neomycin can be used in the form of rinsing solutions, ointments and vaginal suppositories as a single agent for various infection-related diseases and to reduce inflammation.
In ointments neomycin is applied for external use for skin and mucous membrane infections, wounds and burns. In this context, the active ingredient for the treatment of infected wounds, bacteria-induced eczema, skin infections is (dermatoses), bullous skin lichen (impetigo) and purulent rashes (pyoderma).
Another application of neomycin are bacterial infections in the genital area. In Vaginalzäpfen the drug is inserted into the vagina to reduce bacterially induced discharge (vaginal discharge or trichomoniasis fluorine), bacteria-induced vaginal thrush (colpitis) and inflammation of the external female genitals (vulvitis).
Action of neomycin
The active ingredient Neomycin belongs to the drug class of the aminoglycoside antibiotics and also their mode of action against pathogens.
Neomycin is a so-called broad-spectrum antibiotic, that is, it acts against both gram-positive as well as against gram-negative bacteria. The drug has a bactericidal (bactericidal) effect and inhibits already in small doses the growth of bacteria such as staphylococci. For example, infections caused by streptococci and urinary tract infections can be treated with neomycin.
The advantage of neomycin is that it is not included in topical application on the skin and mucous membrane practically in the body. This low absorption through the skin and mucous membrane and its good solubility in wound fluid allows high effective drug concentrations at the site of neomycin. The active ingredient may thus exert its antibiotic effect and ideally also frequently caused by bacteria in skin infections and eczema and purulent rash (pyoderma) is applied.
Due to its antibiotic action neomycin is also used to reduce inflammation in bacterial infections in the pubic area.
Possible side effects of neomycin have?
Below the most important information on possible common side effects of neomycin. These side effects do not occur, but can. Because each person reacts differently to medications. Please also note that the side effects in nature and frequency depending on the dosage form of a drug (eg, tablet, spray, ointment) may be different.
Uncommon side effects:
Allergic skin disorders (rash), changes in blood count, low blood pressure, heartbeat sequence increases (tachycardia), nausea and vomiting, dizziness.
Rare side effects:
Visual field loss (scotoma), breathing disorders in the form of respiratory depression.
Very rare and sporadic side effects:
anaphylactic shock, respiratory arrest.
Side effects without frequency indication:
Muscle pain, nerve-related muscle disorders (neuromuscular blockade) as fatigability of the extraocular muscles, disturbances in chewing, swallowing and speaking, muscle paralysis (paresthesia), tingling, numbness of the limbs, ocular palsies, Gehöhrschäden, equilibrium organ damage, slight transient increase in liver enzymes (SGOT, SGPT and AP ), kidney damage, hypersensitivity skin reactions such as rash, itching, redness, fever, inflammatory skin reactions, infections caused by bacteria or yeasts such as oral thrush.
When should neomycin not be used?
The drug should not be used in case of hypersensitivity to neomycin or other aminoglycoside antibiotics and in renal impairment or at a pre-damage of the auditory and vestibular system (vestibular or Cochlearorgans).
Only after careful medical benefit-risk assessment neomycin should be administered in the muscle disease myasthenia gravis and in patients receiving the same muskelentkrampfende agents (muscle relaxants).
also need to be monitored carefully medically patients who have received at previous illnesses kanamycin and / or streptomycin. From this period, a non-noticeable hearing impairment exist. On re taking your hearing could be damaged and make a noticeable hearing loss.
For use in the eye of the drug should not be administered in cases of infestation of the eye with viruses and fungi.
If the active compound for the treatment of skin infections in ointment form is used, it should not be applied to large wounds.
What should I watch for pregnancy and breastfeeding?
The drug neomycin should not be used, because in the early stages of pregnancy, the risk that the fetus is severely damaged in pregnancy. In addition, can occur when a child in the use during pregnancy hearing damage.
The drug passes into breast milk and may cause so the breast-fed infant diarrhea. In addition, the natural oral flora of the child can be changed so that in him a fungal colonization of the mucous membranes (fungal infection in the mouth) is possible. Neomycin may therefore be used during lactation also not.
What has to be considered in children?
Since the safe use of the drug in children has not been established, neomycin to children should not be administered.
In premature infants and in the first weeks of life of the child the drug as a rinse solutions must not be applied. By still immature kidney function the drug can accumulate and damage the kidneys and the hearing of the newborn.
