(BAS i tray sin, NEE oh MYE sin, POL ee MIX in B) Brand: Medi-Quik, Neosporin, Triple Antibiotic
• Call your doctor if your skin condition does not improve after using this medicine for 1 week, or if your symptoms get worse.
• Call your doctor at once if you have swelling, redness, itching, pus, or another signs of infection. Also speak your doctor if you feel any numbness or tingling while using this medication.
• Do not apply the ointment over big skin areas. Do not use on a deep cut, an animal bite, or a serious burn. Call your doctor for instructions on how to treat these more severe skin injuries.
• Avoid applying another creams, lotions, ointments, or another medicated skin commodity to the same areas you treat with bacitracin, neomycin, and polymyxin B.
• Bacitracin, neomycin, and polymyxin B are antibiotics that kill bacteria on your skin.
• The combination of bacitracin, neomycin, and polymyxin B topical (for the skin) is used to treat and prevent infections in minor cuts, scrapes, or burns on your skin.
• This medicine may also be used for another purposes not listed in this medicine guide.
• You must not use this medicine if you are allergic to bacitracin, neomycin, or polymyxin B.
• Till using this medicine, speak your doctor if you have any drug allergies.
• FDA pregnancy category C. It is not known whether bacitracin, neomycin, and polymyxin B is deleterious to an unborn child. Till using this medicine, speak your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant during treatment.
• It is not known if this medication passes into breast milk or if it could harm a nursing child. Do not use this medicine without telling your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby.
• Use this medicine exactly as directed on the label, or as predesigned by your doctor. Do not use it in larger amounts or for longer than recommended.
• Till you apply this medicine, wash the skin area with soap and water and then dry it thoroughly.
• Do not apply the ointment over big skin areas. Do not use on a deep cut, an animal bite, or a serious burn. Call your doctor for instructions on how to treat these more severe skin injuries.
• This medicine can be applied up to 3 times every day, or as directed on the medication label. Cover the wound with a bandage if desired. Clean the wound and use a new bandage every time you apply bacitracin, neomycin, and polymyxin B.
• Use this medicine for as much days as recommended on the label or by your doctor, even if your symptoms start getting better. Your symptoms may improve till the infection is completely cleared.
• Call your doctor if your skin condition does not improve after using this medicine for 1 week, or if your symptoms get worse.
• Store this medicine at room temperature away from hot or cool temperatures.
• Apply the medicine as soon as you remember. If it is nearly time for the following doze, skip the missed doze and wait before your following regularly scheduled doze. Do not apply extra medication to create up the missed dose.
• This medication is not generally absorbed through the skin in amounts big satis to reason an overdose. Call your doctor if you think you have used too many of this medication.
• Bacitracin, neomycin, and polymyxin B is for use only on your skin. Avoid getting this medication in your mouth, nose, or eyes. If it does get into any of these areas, rinse with water.
• Avoid applying another creams, lotions, ointments, or another medicated skin commodity to the same areas you treat with bacitracin, neomycin, and polymyxin B.
• Stop using this medicine and get abnormal medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your person, lips, tongue, or throat.
• Call your doctor at once if you have swelling, redness, itching, pus, or another signs of infection. Speak your doctor if you feel any numbness or tingling while using this medication.
• A rare but serious side effect of this medicine is hearing loss, which has occurred in people using another forms of neomycin. It is unlikely that you would absorb satis of this medication through your skin to reason this effect. Call your doctor at once if you announcement any changes in your hearing.
• This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may message side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
• It is not likely that another drugs you take orally or inject will have an effect on topically applied bacitracin, neomycin, and polymyxin B. But much drugs can interact with every another. Speak your doctor about all your prescription and over-the-counter medications, vitamins, minerals, herbal commodity, and drugs predesigned by another doctors. Do not start a new medicine without telling your doctor.
• Your pharmacist can provide more information about bacitracin, neomycin, and polymyxin B.
Remember, hold this and all another medicines out of the reach of children, never share your medicines with others, and use this medicine only for the indication prescribed.
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