Antimicrobial agent "Furacilin" - instructions for use

As the name of this publication indicates, the drug in question will be an antimicrobial agent. Consider the properties of "Furacilin" and its application. About this medicine, probably know in every home. Recently, many new antimicrobial medicines have appeared, but there was a time when "Furacilin" could be found in every first aid kit: in families, in vehicles, in manufacturing plants.

Widely used this remedy in military medicine. It should be noted that the active substance, which is part of "Furacilin" - nitrofural, provides a good efficacy of the drug. In addition to nitrofural (nitrofurazone), these tablets contain sodium chloride as auxiliary substances, as well as: stearic acid, povidone and croscarmellose sodium.

Pharmaceutical forms of antimicrobial agent "Furacilin", the instruction for use calls 0.2% ointment, alcohol solution, tablets. Based on these tablets, aqueous solutions are also prepared for further external use. In this case, one tablet of "Furacilin" is dissolved in a glass of boiling water. Accepted in some cases and inside. The drug is synthetic.

To what pharmacotherapeutic group does Furacilin belong? Instructions for use refer to its antiseptics, means for disinfection of a wide range of action. This antibacterial agent is active against gram-positive, gram-negative microorganisms. "Furatsilin" actively acts against dysenteric and intestinal rods, paratyphoid, streptococcal and staphylococcus. Has an effect on the causative agents of gas gangrene, salmonella.

Mechanisms of action of the solution prepared from the tablets "Furacilin", the instruction for use calls different from other means of chemotherapy. When it is used, the stability of pathogenic microbes slowly develops to the agent. In addition, even developing, the resistance to the action of "furacilin" does not reach a sufficiently high degree.

Reporting on the indications for taking the drug "Furacilin", the instruction on its use recommends it as an external agent in the treatment of the following pathologies:

• Burns of different degree;
• Purulent wounds;
• Conjunctivitis, blepharitis (for washing eyes);
• Otitis medium and acute;
• angina;
• gingivitis;
• stomatitis.

In the last three cases, to rinse your mouth and throat. It is also applied externally in solutions for the treatment of furunculosis, especially abscesses in the area of the auditory canal. Furacilin washed the pleural cavity, it is used in the treatment of osteomyelitis and empyema of the paranasal sinuses externally.

The drug has a disinfecting effect in the treatment of cuts and cracks, abrasions and other, not severe, skin lesions. With dysentery, "Furacilin" instruction for use recommends taking internally. These are acute forms of bacterial dysentery. Then the tablets are prescribed up to five meals a day, one each. At the same time, they should be washed down with enough (up to half liter) of water.

Side effects when using the drug "Furacilin": Instructions for use notes the possibility of allergies - itching, redness of the skin.

With the internal use of tablets in rare cases, dysfunctions of digestion, the work of the digestive tract, were observed. There was loss of appetite, lethargy, dizziness. When rinsing the mouth, throat, this solution in some cases, there was discomfort associated with irritation of mucous membranes and even painful sensations.

Hypersensitivity to the drug is a contraindication to its use in any form!