cetrimide + chlorocresol + Dimeticone 350 + urea: prescribing and clinical use
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cetrimide + chlorocresol + Dimeticone 350 + urea: clinical details
Prescribing considerations
- Confirm that a suspected cold sore is on external lip or facial skin; other lesions may require different management.
- Consider further assessment for unusually large, painful, persistent or recurrent lesions, gingivostomatitis, pregnancy or immunocompromise.
- Advise hand hygiene and measures to prevent herpes transmission, particularly around newborn babies.
Contraindications and cautions
- Hypersensitivity to urea, cetrimide, dimeticone, chlorocresol or any excipient.
- Cetostearyl alcohol may cause local contact dermatitis.
- External use only.
Monitoring
- No routine laboratory monitoring is specified.
- Review persistent symptoms, diagnostic uncertainty or suspected local hypersensitivity.
- Report suspected adverse reactions through the Yellow Card Scheme.
Clinical pharmacology
Urea is keratolytic; cetrimide is a quaternary-ammonium disinfectant; chlorocresol is a mild disinfectant; and dimeticone provides water-repellent barrier activity.
Formulation and product differences
- The selected product is a white emollient cream containing liquid paraffin, cetostearyl alcohol and water.
- Only one product with this active-ingredient combination was identified in the selected evidence.
cetrimide + chlorocresol + Dimeticone 350 + urea interactions
No medicine interactions are known for the selected cream.
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