Removes pimples and treats wounds a remedy that our moms have successfully applied - ointment 'Liniment synthomycin'

A very effective and affordable remedy for various purulent inflammation of the skin - ointment "Liniment synthomycin" - even knew our grandmothers. This well-known, but undeservedly forgotten drug is worth a penny and sold without a prescription in each pharmacy, but by its action will surpass ten beauty salons. He perfectly copes with infections on the skin, helps quickly and reliably get rid of the hated acne, which appear at the most inopportune moment.

In addition, the preparation "Liniment synthomycin" is used to treat burns, cracks on the skin, slowly healing wounds. It is effective for extensive furunculosis, which often affects young people in adolescence, carbuncles (inflammation of the sebaceous glands located next to, and hair bulbs).

The main active substance is D, L-chloramphenicol, or synthomycin. This ointment is white with a light yellow color, which has a weak specific odor. Refers to broad-spectrum antibiotics. Penetrating through the membrane of bacteria, sintomycin disrupts the synthesis of protein in the malicious cell. This action is effective against most strains of bacteria, Gram-positive and Gram-negative, which are resistant to sulfanilamide preparations, tetracycline antibiotics and penicillin.

The drug "Liniment synthomycin" does not recommend the use for such diseases: renal (hepatic) insufficiency, fungal skin lesions, eczema, psoriasis. Contraindications are pregnancy and lactation. A very small (up to a month) babies ointment is not prescribed. It is dangerous to use synthomycin for oppression of bone marrow hematopoiesis, acute intermittent porphyria. In addition, individual intolerance of the drug may become a contraindication.

Before you start using the drug "Liniment synthomycin", it is recommended to check the sensitivity of microflora to it. If it's just a desire to get rid of pimples at home, you can apply a little ointment on the elbow and look at the skin reaction. On the face, the ointment is applied in a thin layer. If you do this 3 times a day, then by the fifth day of acne there will be no trace. When treating serious wounds, dressings are applied to the affected areas with a drug, this treatment is much more effective, especially if the bandage is covered with compress paper on top. Without access to oxygen, bacteria die much more quickly under the action of the drug.

Among the side effects, which can provide ointment "Liniment of synthomycin", skin rash, swelling - allergic reactions. Possible reactions of the hematopoiesis system: leukopenia, erythropenia, granulocytopenia, aplastic anemia, thrombocytopenia, agranulocytosis. It is not recommended simultaneous use of synthomycin with certain antibiotics, such as erythromycin, clindamycin, lincomycin. They weaken each other's action. Under the influence of synthomycin, the therapeutic effect of penicillin and cephalosporin is also reduced. Simultaneous reception of ethanol with the drug can lead to hyperemia of the skin, tachycardia, nausea, vomiting, reflex cough, convulsions. Such reactions are likely when applying ointment to large areas of the skin surface.

In general, the preparation "Liniment synthomycin" is well tolerated by patients, and adverse reactions are rare. And they are very unlikely in the treatment of focal pustular infections on the skin of the face, back, etc. That is why the drug is unusually effective, at its low cost, to get rid of acne in adolescence. Actually, our mothers and grandmothers were the only ones who escaped, we, with the advent of newfangled means, completely forgot about the wonderful and simple means.