Land: Bretland
Tungumál: enska
Heimild: MHRA (Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency)
Clobetasol propionate
Mawdsley-Brooks & Company Ltd
D07AD01
Clobetasol propionate
500microgram/1gram
Cutaneous cream
Cutaneous
No Controlled Drug Status
Valid as a prescribable product
BNF: 13040000
DERMOVATE ® CREAM CLOBETASOL 0.05%W/W CREAM (clobetasol propionate) Your medicine is known by one of the above names, but will be referred to as Dermovate throughout this: PATIENT INFORMATION LEAFLET WHAT IS IN THIS LEAFLET: 1) What Dermovate is and what it is used for 2) What you need to know before you use Dermovate 3) How to use Dermovate 4) Possible side effects 5) How to store Dermovate 6) Contents of the pack and other information 1) WHAT DERMOVATE IS AND WHAT IT IS USED FOR Dermovate contains a medicine called clobetasol propionate. It belongs to a group of medicines called steroids. It helps to reduce swelling and irritation. Dermovate is used to help reduce the redness and itchiness of certain skin problems. These skin problems include: • frequently relapsing eczema • psoriasis (thickened patches of inflamed, red skin, often covered by silvery scales), excluding widespread plaque psoriasis • lichen planus, (a skin disease that causes itchy, reddish-purple, flat- topped bumps on the wrists, forearms or lower legs) • discoid lupus erythematosus (a disease of the skin most often affecting the face, ears and scalp causing scarring and increased sensitivity of the affected skin to sunlight) • dermatitis and other skin conditions that have not responded to milder steroid creams or ointments. 2) WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU USE DERMOVATE DO NOT USE DERMOVATE: • if you are allergic (hypersensitive) to clobetasol propionate or any of the other ingredients of this medicine (listed in Section 6) • on a child under 1 year of age • to treat any of the following skin problems, it could make them worse: − acne − severe flushing of skin on and around your nose (rosacea) − spotty red rash around your mouth (perioral dermatitis) − itching around your anus or genitals (penis or vagina) − infected skin (unless the infection is being treated with an anti- infective medicine at the same time) − itchy skin which is not inflamed − widespread plaque psoriasis, except single lesions. Do not use Lestu allt skjalið