Diproderm Crema
Cream to treat eczema and skin burns (sunburn)
Content 60 g
Manufacturer: Schering-Plough, S.A.
Composition
Each gram contains 0.5 mg betamethasone (as dipropionate)
Other ingredients
1 mg / g Chlorocresol, white vaseline, liquid paraffin, cetostearyl alcohol, Macrogolcetylstearylether, sodium, phosphoric acid and
purified water.
Applications
Treatment of all inflammatory and pruritic skin diseases which respond to a local glucocorticoid therapy.
Allergic and eczematous skin diseases (acute, subacute and chronic forms) as
• Contact dermatitis, allergic dermatitis, eczema professional
• seborrheic dermatitis
• atopic dermatitis (endogenous eczema, atopic dermatitis)
• eczema in children
• Intertrigo, anal and genital dermatitis
• nummular eczema
• dyshidrotic eczema.
Acute non-allergic dermatitis, such as
• sunburn (severe forms)
• photodermatoses
• Burns first Grades
• burns
• X-ray dermatitis
• non-infected insect bites with severe edema.
Other indications for steroid treatment such as:
• Psoriasis Vulgaris
• Pityriasis rosea
• Pemphigus vulgaris
• exfoliative dermatitis
• Lichen planus et verrucosus rubber
• Lichen simplex chronicus
• Chronic Discoid lupus erythematosus
• Erythroderma
• erythema multiforme.
Dosage and duration of application
In general, a sufficient one-to two applications per day. The frequency of application can in the course of improvement of the clinical picture
be reduced.
Diproderm cream thinly in sufficient quantity to the affected area and gently massage.
For chronic diseases, treatment should be continued even after the complete decay of the complaints some time to recurrence
excluded.
Use in children: Not for children under 12 years of use without medical supervision. In children, this medicine should be sparingly to
a small area to be used one or twice daily for one week.
Contraindications
• Hypersensitivity to the active substance or any of the other ingredients.
• skin tuberculosis, syphilitic skin disorders and viral diseases (herpes, vaccinia, variola, varicella, etc.) within the treatment area.
• Perioral dermatitis and rosacea.
Special warnings and precautions for use
• In case of irritation or sensitization in the application of Diproderm cream should stop treatment and a corresponding
Therapy should be initiated.
• The risk of local skin infections may be increased by the topical application of glucocorticoids.
• If bacterial or mycotic infection skin diseases, treatment should be combined with appropriate antibacterial or antifungal acting
Or substances used only when the infection could be controlled by appropriate means.
• Each of the side effects are reported following systemic use of corticosteroids, including adrenal suppression, can also
occur with topical corticosteroid use, particularly in infants and children.
• Systemic absorption of topically applied corticosteroids is increased in large areas or under occlusion. Suitable precautions
should be taken in these conditions or the intended long-term treatment, especially in infants and children.
• Children develop a greater sensitivity than adults to corticosteroids induced by HPA-axis suppression and exogenous Kortikoidwirkungen
because of increased absorption because of the larger surface of the skin / body weight ratio.
• About HPA-axis suppression, Cushing's syndrome, decreased linear growth, delayed weight gain and intracranial hypertension in
children have been reported after topical application of corticosteroids.
• Symptoms of adrenal suppression in children are expressed in low Plasmakortisolspiegel and lack of responsiveness to ACTH stimulation.
Intracranial hypertensive symptoms are fontanelles hernia, headaches, and sided papilloedema.
• Do not use on the eye!
Special precautions
Do not store above 25 ° C.