An excellent alternative to the well-known greenback is calamine - a lotion used for chickenpox and not only for this disease. Its effect extends to many infectious and dermatological problems, including insect bites. Consider the drug in detail.
Material Content:
How to apply and what is in the composition
Available in 100 milliliter glass vials with liquid inside a pale pink color. Calamine can also be found in the form of a cream, but in this form, the medicine is less common among the population than lotion.
The drug is very easy to use - before use, shake the bottle thoroughly, open and dip a cotton swab or turunda inside. Apply the medicinal composition to problem areas with blotting light movements.
Now wait until the lotion is completely dry, which happens after a few minutes. You will understand this when you see a white spot on the skin that leaves no residue on the fabric and can be easily washed off with water.
Manipulate up to 7 times a day and continue until complete elimination of the disease.
Important: Calamine Lotion is used only outside, while trying to avoid getting the mixture in the eyes, mouth and mucous membrane of the nasal passages.
What is in the composition.
The product is based on natural components such as 15% calamine and 5% sulfur oxide.
Additional substances are:
- water (purified) and glycerin;
- bentonite and phenol;
- sodium citrate and medical clay.
What is important - it completely eliminates harmful alcohol and hormones, both for the skin and for human health in general.
Terms, storage conditions and special instructions.
The drug is stored in cool up to 3 years from the date of manufacture. A special instruction is to protect from children, that is, to choose a place for medicine that is inaccessible to them, in order to protect them from poisoning.
When is Calamine used?
The most common use of calamine concerns chickenpox.
But it is effective in other skin problems of various origins:
- Psoriasis and all types of herpes.
- Acne on the face and body.
- Rubella and all kinds of allergic reactions in the form of dermatitis, urticaria and other problems similar in symptoms.
Another lotion with success helps the faster healing of postoperative sutures, insect bites and sunburn.
The effect of the drug.
The main therapeutic actions of the drug are elimination of itching with inflammation, drying of the dermis, relieving edema with irritation and cooling with soothing of the diseased skin area.
Due to all these properties, Calamine is used primarily against chickenpox. It prevents the further development of pathology, eliminating the itching of vesicles on the body. And also in a short time heals all wounds without any traces.
Important: when using the lotion, the intake of antihistamines is minimized, which is important when the disease appears in young children.
Even babies under the age of 3 are allowed to use Calamine in the form of a lotion for chickenpox and other skin problems.
Here are the other properties of Calamine Lotion that can be used for various problems:
- gently dries bursting bubbles;
- bactericidal action protects against pathogenic microbes entering the wounds;
- prevents the formation of scars during healing;
- protects against factors that can negatively affect the skin;
- “Launches” a program at the cellular level, restoring the integrity of the dermis;
- does not have a pathological effect on healthy tissues around;
- not addictive to the components of the drug.
The lotion successfully removes irritation after shaving in men, whitens and soothes the skin. It can even be used as a basis for makeup for women, which will be an effective protection against ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
Now about the effect of the drug on certain diseases and skin problems:
- It alleviates the symptoms of dermatitis of various origins - contact (irritation from tactile contact), winter (the effect of low air temperatures), atopic (appears with disorders of the nervous system) and seborrheic (the cause is dysfunction of the sebaceous glands).
- The etiology of chronic dermatological pathology called psoriasis is still unknown. The disease spreads not only to the skin, but also to joints with nails, appearing in the form of pink itchy scales. Lotion relieves itching and protects the damaged parts from infection by drying them.
- Chickenpox, both in children and in adults. In the latter, it proceeds much harder. The main danger of the disease is a rash on the skin. If they are constantly scratched, infection occurs with the formation of deep scars that can remain for life. So it is Calamine that helps to avoid this.
- A very unpleasant disease is shingles, accompanied by pain (neuralgic) and blistering serous vesicles on the skin, which have bloody and purulent contents. The tool does not completely relieve the disease, but significantly alleviates all these symptoms, which is also important.
- With rubella, the drug eliminates itching and irritation, preventing the development of complications in the form of scars and bacterial infection.
- Herpes is a chronic disease that cannot be completely cured. But zinc dioxide in the lotion reduces the duration of the exacerbation period.
- If you, because of your carelessness, have been in direct sunlight for a long time, Kalamin will also help relieve inflammation and redness after this event. At the same time, it will still cool the skin and soothe.
- Any insect bite is accompanied by itching, pain, swelling, and swelling. All these symptoms in a short time relieves this drug.
In difficult cases, when after a bite a serious condition occurs, reaching anaphylactic shock, you will urgently need to seek help at a medical institution.
About interaction with other drugs
The effect of Kalamin on other drugs has not yet been fully studied. But it is known that if you apply the lotion before or after another cream, ointment or lotion, then the effectiveness of the second is reduced.
Therefore, if the doctor prescribed the additional use of two drugs, including Kalamin, then after applying the first one, wait a bit, and only then smear the second.
How to replace Calamine Lotion
There are several similar drugs that can become a substitute for Kalamin:
- Restrictions on the use for children has Belosalik lotion due to the presence of betamethasone in the hormonal substance. But it is effective in the treatment of psoriasis, seborrhea, lichen and neurodermatitis.
- The suspension of Tsindol is based on zinc oxide, which significantly reduces the cost of the drug. It is also called the Chatterbox, allowing the use of even small children. It is indicated for burns, dermatitis and pressure sores.
- Fukortsin's solution, similar to Kalamin, but much less expensive. Its effect extends to cracks in the skin, fungal diseases, abrasions and other superficial wounds. It contains phenol, boric acid and resorcinol.
What to choose from the proposed options is up to you, but drugs with 100% similarity with Kalamin have not yet been invented.
When Calamine is contraindicated
Calamine Lotion has no particular contraindications, except for the individual intolerance of its components. If after a week of use no positive results are found or an allergic reaction occurs, then use should be discontinued.
In this case, you should contact a dermatologist and he will pick up another remedy that will not cause such reactions.
The use of the medicine is not recommended for women during pregnancy and lactation.
Side effects.
Calamine does not cause side effects, except for a possible allergic reaction in the form of redness, swelling and itching. In this case, it is necessary to immediately rinse the skin with water and stop using it in the future, choosing another medicine.
An allergy can cause phenol in a composition that has a bactericidal effect.
Overdose cases were also not detected, negative manifestations are possible if the product gets on the mucous membranes of the eye, mouth and nose. And, of course, you can’t use it inside, which will lead to poisoning.
As you can see, Kalamin Lotion is able to get rid of many dermatological problems without any complications, without any special contraindications. In addition, it is much more effective and faster to solve them, if you compare the drug with the usual green for all. Health to you and your loved ones!
