"Tetracycline-Akos" - a medicinal drug, refers to the antibiotics of the tetracycline group. The drug has a wide field of application, acts as an antibacterial agent. "Tetracycline" inhibits the vital activity of many pathogens, whose activity leads to infectious diseases.
The active ingredient (tetracycline hydrochloride) helps to cope with many pathogens, but is completely ineffective in the fight against viruses and fungi, as well as group A streptococci. Why is Tetracycline-Akos ointment used?
Structure
There are two forms of ointment for external use - one (ophthalmic) and three percent. The drug is available in the form of a dense yellow mass, dispensed in pharmacies in tubes (volume from 3 to 15 grams). The cost of the drug varies from 20 to 50 rubles. The active substance is tetracycline hydrochloride (from 0.01-0.03 grams), additional components are petrolatum, vinylin, sodium pyrosulfate, ceresin. The active trace element adversely affects the formation of protein structures in viruses. Once in the blood, does not form coordination compounds with plasma proteins. Destructive effect on the following groups of bacteria:
- Salmonella (causes salmonellosis, severe food poisoning).
- Escherichia coli (causes severe food poisoning, meningitis).
- Staphylococcus (is the causative agent of folliculitis, pyoderma, hyperemia, sinusitis, sinusitis, osteomyelitis, cholecystitis, laryngitis, tracheitis).
- Streptococcus (is the causative agent of meningitis, periodontitis, abscesses, endocarditis, bronchitis, scarlet fever, acute tonsillitis).
- Shigella (causative agent of dysentery).
- Spirochetes (causative agents of syphilis, typhoid, Lyme disease, borreliosis, leptospirosis).
- Mycoplasma.
- Rickettsia (intracellular parasites, are causative agents of the Rocky Mountain spotted fever).
- Klebsiella (the causative agent of pneumonia, urogenital infections, conjunctivitis, sepsis, meningitis and acute intestinal infections).
When can tetracycline ointment be used?
The drug 1% is used in the treatment of the following eye diseases:
- Infections of the mucous membranes of the eye.
- Bilateral repeated inflammation of the edge of the eyelids.
- Barley.
- Chlamydial inflammation (a sexually transmitted infection caused by chlamydia).
It is also used to prevent infectious processes after undergoing surgery or injury.
Ointment 3% is used to eliminate the following ailments:
- Acne
- Vulvitis (inflammation affecting the external genital organs).
- Pustular formations.
- Sinusitis (infection of the mucous membrane of one or more sinuses).
- Pharyngitis (inflammation of the inner lining of the hollow organs and larynx).
- Bronchitis.
- Stomatitis (damage to the mucosa of the walls of the oral cavity).
- Brucellosis (a zooanthroponic inflammatory process that is transmitted from infected animals to humans).
- Gingivitis (gum disease without damage to the integrity of the gingival joint).
- Pneumonia (inflammation of the lung tissue).
- Actinomycosis.
- Syphilis.
- Angina.
- Gonorrhea.
- Typhoid (infectious diseases accompanied by mental disorders on the background of high fever and intoxication).
- Meningitis.
Ointment "Tetracycline-Akos": instruction
To prevent eye diseases, the ointment must be applied daily to the lower conjunctival sac. In this case, you need to pull the lower eyelid and place on the mucous membrane of the eye from three to five millimeters of the drug.
Depending on the severity of the disease, the duration of therapy is as follows:
- With redness of the mucous membrane, sensation of a foreign body in the eye, purulent discharge, 1% ointment is used until the symptoms disappear completely.
- With trachoma, treatment must be continued from 7 to 20 days under the supervision of an ophthalmologist.
- After surgery, ointment 3% is used for two to three days.
- To eliminate acne, the drug (3%) must be used for eight weeks.
- In case of violation of the hair follicles, as well as pustular inflammations and eczema, the therapy is carried out by applying compresses (from a gauze dressing with dense layers of tetracycline ointment 3%) for up to twelve hours, the procedure must be repeated every day until complete recovery.
Contraindications
In the instructions for the ointment "Tetracycline" 1 and 3%, you can see the following prohibitions on the use:
- pregnancy;
- breast-feeding;
- children under eight years old;
- problems in the work of the kidneys and liver;
- intolerance to components.
Side effects
Like any other drug, tetracycline ointment has a number of side effects:
- migraine;
- photophobia;
- pancreatitis
- damage to the liver and kidneys;
- pigmentation of the skin;
- unsteady gait;
- allergic manifestations;
- dysbiosis;
- increased intracranial pressure;
- hypovitaminosis.
The medication has a strong antibacterial and antimicrobial effect.
special instructions
Ointment "Tetracycline-Akos" 3% can not be used for deep cuts and puncture wounds, with severe burns and eye diseases. The drug should not be combined with penicillin antibiotics, as well as drugs containing antacid, retinol, metal ions. In addition, tetracycline ointment should not be used together with cholestyramine and cholestipol, since these trace elements contribute to the rapid absorption of the antibiotic. The use of an ointment with erythromycin enhances the therapeutic effect.