Antifungal drugs

For the local treatment of fungus pharmaceuticals produces a wide range of antifungal creams, ointments, powders, lotions and also solutions, tablets for sucking, and other tools.

In cases when the infection affects the skin, mucous membranes or cornea local treatment is virtually no alternative way of dealing with fungi. The most common disease agents which are fungi – candidiasis, fungal keratitis, tinea versicolor and various dermatofitia.

When the infection affects the skin, the treatment is better to use the antifungal drugs in the form of lotions and creams, not ointments.

Dusting makes sense to use in those places where excess moisture is formed, between the toes, in groin area, in armpits.

Thus, if you want to pick up an antifungal drug for the treatment of the local lesion, we should choose the one which besides the affordable cost, there is also the required dosage form.

If the patient has tinea on the body, it can be used the medications that are sold without a prescription, but a powerful and expensive variants are better left to more severe cases.

Now from the theory to specific drugs.

A well-known drug "Nystatin", as well as other common antifungal drugs, effectively treats superficial candidiasis, in its action it is very similar to the drug "Amphotericin b". Available in the form of cream, tablets, ointments, powders, suspensions and lozenges. When candidal stomatitis, it is recommended to apply four times daily nystatin suspension. From diaper dermatitis in children, helps a cream with nystatin in cases of superficial candidiasis in areas of skin folds applied powder containing nystatin. It should be very carefully treated ogoloshennya folds infants and to ensure that powder in no case did not get into the respiratory tract.

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I've Already mentioned the drug "Amphotericin b" is made by pharmaceutical companies in the forms of ointment, lotion and cream. These topically applied antifungal drugs should only in case of superficial candidiasis or thrush.

Many of the azoles are available in forms for local use. They are especially well-suited to fungi Microsporum spp. Trichophyton spp. Candida spp. sometimes they help and from Pityrosporum ovale. If you apply these antifungal drugs correctly, the risk of complications is small, the maximum that can happen is redness or irritation of the skin.

Drug "Clotrimazole" is made in the form of a cream, lotion, lozenges, vaginal creams and vaginal tablets. All of these products except lozenges can be purchased at pharmacies without a prescription.

"Miconazole" medicine refers to the medicines that are allowed to sell without a prescription. It comes in the form of a lotion, powder, aerosol and vaginal cream. the Lotion and the powder – this is a wonderful antifungals for feet. In case of tinea infection of the groin area or when the Candida vaginitis treatment is recommended to start with miconazole.

Besides these two, there are other antifungal drugs of the same group. Title: "Econazole", "Sulconazole", "Oxiconazole", "Ketoconazole". The spectrum of action of these drugs is similar to the previous two, but since they are quite expensive, they should be used only as second line drugs.

"Ketoconazole" – nazvanie shampoo to treat pityriasis lichen. Note that it is useless if dermatofitia head.

Tolnaftate copes well with dermatophytes, but is useless against Candida spp. its effectiveness against dermatofitia torso slightly lower than those of azoles. A large part of the drugs implemented the pharmacy network without prescription.