A very effective and affordable remedy for various purulent inflammations of the skin - ointment "Liniment synthomycin" - our grandmothers also knew. This well-known, but undeservedly forgotten drug costs mere pennies and is sold without a prescription in every pharmacy, but in its effect it will surpass ten beauty salons. It copes with infections on the skin, helps quickly and reliably get rid of the hated acne that appears at the most inopportune moment.
In addition, the drug "Liniment syntomycin" is used to treat burns, cracks in the skin, and slowly healing wounds. It is effective for extensive furunculosis, which often affects young people in their teens, carbuncles (inflammation of the sebaceous glands located nearby, and hair follicles).
The main active ingredient is D, L-chloramphenicol, or synthomycin. This ointment is white with a slight yellowness, having a slight specific smell. Refers to broad-spectrum antibiotics. Penetrating through the membrane of bacteria, synthomycin disrupts protein synthesis in a malicious cell. This action is effective against most strains of bacteria, gram-positive and gram-negative, which are resistant to sulfa drugs, tetracycline antibiotics and penicillin.
The drug "Liniment synthomycin" the instruction does not recommend use for such diseases: renal (liver) failure, fungal skin lesions, eczema, psoriasis. Contraindications are also pregnancy and breastfeeding. For very small (up to a month) babies, the ointment is not prescribed. The use of synthomycin is dangerous when suppressing bone marrow hematopoiesis, acute intermittent porphyria. In addition, an individual intolerance to the drug may become a contraindication.
Before you start using the drug "Liniment synthomycin", it is recommended to check the sensitivity of microflora to it. If this is just a desire to get rid of acne at home, you can apply a little ointment to the elbow and look at the skin reaction. The ointment is applied on the face with a thin layer. If you do this 3 times a day, then by the fifth day from acne there will be no trace. When treating serious wounds, dressings with the drug are applied to the affected areas, such treatment is much more effective, especially if you cover the dressing with compress paper on top. Without oxygen, bacteria die much faster under the influence of the drug.
Among the side effects that Liniment Synthomycin ointment can have, skin rash, edema are allergic reactions. Possible reactions of the hematopoietic system: leukopenia, erythropenia, granulocytopenia, aplastic anemia, thrombocytopenia, agranulocytosis. The simultaneous use of synthomycin with certain antibiotics, such as erythromycin, clindamycin, lincomycin, is not recommended. They weaken each other's action. Under the influence of synthomycin, the therapeutic effect of penicillin and cephalosporin is also reduced. The simultaneous use of ethanol with the drug can lead to flushing of the skin, tachycardia, nausea, vomiting, reflex cough, convulsions. Such reactions are likely when applying the ointment to large areas of the skin surface.
In general, the drug "Liniment syntomycin" is well tolerated by patients, and adverse reactions are quite rare. And they are very unlikely in the treatment of focal pustular infections on the skin of the face, back, etc. That is why the drug is extremely effective, at its low cost, for getting rid of acne in adolescence. Actually, our mothers and grandmothers were the only ones who were saved, and we, with the advent of new-fangled products, completely forgot about the wonderful and simple remedy.