Essential Waitrose Cold Sore 5% W/W Cream
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(Active ingredient: Acidovir)
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Read all of this leaflet carefully because it contains important information for you.
(this medicine is available without prescription. However, you still need to use essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w Icream carefully to get the best results from it.
.• Keep this leaflet. You may need to read it again.
L Ask your pharmacist if you need more information or I advice.
• You must contact a doctor if your symptoms worsen | or does not improve after 10 days.
• if any of the side effects get serious, or if you notice any I side effects not listed in tne leaflet, please tell your
doctor or pharmacist.
, doctor or phc In this leaflet:
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[I. What essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream is and what it is used for
|2. Before you use essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream
(b. How to use essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w
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4. Possible side effects
|5. how to store essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream
16. Further information
Take special care with essential waitrose cold
sore 5% w/w cream:
Tell your doctor or pharmacist before you start using
the cream:
if you are pregnant, plan to become pregnant or are
breastfeeding.
• If you have a weak immune system, for example after chemotherapy or radiotherapy or due to immune deficiency disease or following transplant surgery. Consult your doctor first if you have an infection.
• People with severe recurrent infection of the face and lips should contact their doctor or pharmacist.
• Essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream is not for use with eye infections.
• Essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream is not to be used to treat genital herpes.
Taking other medicines:
Please Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking
any of the following medicines: • Probenecid used to p
) prevent kidney problems associated with cidofovir.
Please tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking or have recently taken any other medicines including medicines obtained without prescription.
Pregnancy and Breast-feeding:
Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant. A small amount of this drug does
lAcidovir belongs to a group of medicines called antivirals. Aciclovir works in cells that are infected by certain viruses, including the herpes simplex virus. If
pass into breast milk. If you are breast-feeding or are planning to breast-feed your baby tell your doctor.
certain viruses, including the herpes simplex virus, interferes with virus DNA, slowing down virus growth. Aciclovir is not harmful to human DNA.
IWhat essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream is used for?
Essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream is used to .treat cold sores of the lips and face caused by the
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herpes simplex virus.
|Acidovir has been shown to speed up the healing of cold sore blisters if it is used soon enough.
This medicine should not affect your ability to drive or operate machinery.
Important information about some of the Ingredients of essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream:
Essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream contains cetyl alcohol and propylene glycol which may cause local skin reactions (skin irritation and redness).
Z Before you use essential waitrose cold sore 5%w/w cream
If you are not sure that your symptoms are caused by a bold sore then please consult your doctor or
i please consult yo pharmacist before use.
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bo NOT use essential waitrose cold sore 5% w/w peam:
• If you are allergic to Aciclovir, valaciclovir, propylene I glycol or any other ingredients of the preparation (see . section 6 for a complete list of ingredients).
L inside your mouth, to treat mouth ulcers and in the ^eyes or genital areas.
Essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream is for use on the skin only. It is not to be taken internally.
• To work at its best, essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream should be started as soon as possible after the first symptoms of infection appear.
• People who suffer from cold sores can often tell when they are about to get a cold sore by a tingling or itching sensation. Essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream should be used at this tingling stage or just after skin blisters appear.
• if you get cold sores often, it may be useful to keep a 4iackreadyfoq^ournext£ne^ _ _ _ _
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4. Possible side effects
5. How to store essential waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream
6. Further Information
TheTollowinglnsTrucfTons wilffell you fiowTo use pssential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream:
1. Wash your hands.
t. Apply a thin film of essential Waitrose cold sore ■ 5% w/w cream to the infected skin, and the skin 1 immediately next to it, using your fingertip. Take care I not to rub me infected skin any more than you need
to.
b. You should apply essential Waitrose cold sore . 5% w/w cream to the infected area 5 times each 1 day, at intervals of about 4 hours, night time I application can be omitted.
4. Wash your hands again. Herpes simplex is infectious I and you should try To avoid touching the infected . skin with your hands or with towels etc to prevent 1 spreading the infection, r Never apply essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream to an area of the body called the mucous I membranes, as the cream can cause irritation. These areas to avoid include the inside of the mouth and I nose and the inside of the vagina, p Treatment should be continued for at least 4 days, if the infection has not healed after this time treatment | can be continued for up to 5 days more.
• if your skin infection does not get better after 10 days I of treatment or gets worse at any time tell your 1 doctor as soon as possible.
If you use more essential waitrose cold sore p% w/w cream than you should:
Essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream is not to be used in the mouth as it may irritate the skin in this area. Jf it is accidentally swallowed, do not worry, but contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice.
Essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream should not be used in the eyes. If it gets in the eyes, wash it out Kvith plenty of water, if your eye gets sore tell your doctor or pharmacist.
If you forget to use essential waitrose cold sore (5%w/w cream:
If you forget to use your cream, apply some as soon as lyou remember, then go on as before.
Jf you have any further questions on the use of essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream ask your ploctor or pharmacist._
like all medicines essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w pream can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.
very rarely there is an allergic (hypersensitive) reaction .with symptoms of swelling of the face, throat and mouth and itching. Contact your doctor or hospital emergency department immediately.
Uncommon (>1/1000& <1/100) h Mild drying or flaking of the skin.
.• After application of The cream there may be some 1 burning or stinging of the treated skin areas, y itching.
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These may occur at The beginning of theTredTmenT 1 If these signs do not get better after a few days then . contact your doctor.
• Contact dermatitis with symptoms of a red rash or
bumps, itching which may be severe with skin I
you should continue with essential Waitrose cold sore| 5% w/w cream.
• An allergic or hypersensitive reaction (see start of , section).
Reporting of side effects
if you get any side effects, talk to your doctor or I
"http://www.mhra.gov.uk/yellowcard".
By reporting side effects you can help provide more I information on the safety of this medicine._
Keep out of the sight and reach of children.
Do not use essentiafwaitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream after the expiry or 'use by’ date shown on the container.
Use within 6 weeks of opening.
Keep essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream in its original container and store at a temperature below 25°C but do not refrigerate or freeze._
What the cream contains:
The active ingredient is Aciclovir. Each gram of the |
cream contains 50mg of Aciclovir. The other ingredients are stearoyl macrogolglycerides, I
dimeticone, cetyl alcohol, liquia paraffin, white soft .
paraffin, propylene glycol and purified water.
What essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w 1
cream looks like and contents of the pack. Essential Waitrose cold sore 5% w/w cream is available I from your pharmacist without prescription in a 2g tube. I
Produced by MA Holder for Waitrose Limited Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 8YA, UK. |
Marketing Authorisation Holder and Manufadurer: ■
Relonchem Limited, Cheshire House, Gorsey Lane, Widnes, Cheshire, WA80RP, UK. |
Date leaflet last revised: 01/2015.
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