Ichthyol suppositories are an effective disinfectant and antiseptic that has a specific smell. It is also known about the local anesthetic effect that they have.
Instructions for use indicate their use in burns, eczema, trophic ulcers, erysipelas and other skin diseases. The drug is prescribed for the treatment of arthritis, neuralgia, metritis, prostatitis, parametritis and salpingitis. However, ichthyol suppositories are most often used for hemorrhoids, for the treatment of anal fissures, as well as inflammation of the organs in the pelvis.
The active ingredient - ichthyol - is obtained by processing various types of peat, which contains the remains of ancient fossil fish. This drug has remained popular for several centuries. The sulfur contained in ichthyol makes drugs based on this substance indispensable for the treatment of various ailments, especially hemorrhoids. This is confirmed by experts in several countries.
Ichthyol suppositories: application
The drug must be administered after cleansing the intestines and hygiene procedures. Tampons or ichthyol suppositories moistened with a solution of ichthyol in glycerol recommends that you use the application guide for inflammation of the fallopian tubes, perinatal space, uterine inflammation, prostatitis and hemorrhoids, as well as other pelvic pathologies.
Arthritis, skin diseases and neuralgia are recommended to be treated using ichthyol ointment or glycerin, water-alcohol rubbing and lotions containing ichthyol.
Ichthyol candles: instruction. Contraindications, side effects
The main prohibition for the use of the drug is hypersensitivity to the main active substance and other components of the drug. There are no contraindications for the use of the medication for children, nursing mothers, pregnant women.
For patients using ichthyol suppositories, the instructions for use warns of the presence of side effects, expressed in various allergic reactions to the drug.
Suppositories with ichthyol cannot be used together with solutions of iodide salts, metal salts (heavy) and alkaloids.
The therapeutic effect of suppositories and ointments is due to the presence of ichthyol in the preparations, which allows you to quickly remove inflammation, pain (local anesthesia), increases the body's ability to epithelize and restores skin cells. The substance has an antiseptic effect, softens, dissolves and causes rejection of keratinized, hypertrophied cells.
Medicines based on ichthyol, for example ichthyol suppositories, the instruction for their use recommends not only to eliminate hemorrhoids. Ointment and ichthyol solution is prescribed for psoriasis, carbunculosis, eczema, trophic ulcers, skin injuries (purulent wounds, frostbite, burns, cracks).
With hemorrhoids ointment three times a day, it is necessary to lubricate the nodes and bumps with neat massage movements. Suppositories are administered up to two times a day after emptying into the rectum.