(KAL a mine) Brand: Calamine Plain
• Calamine is an anti-itch medicine that works by causing a cooling sensation as it evaporates on your skin. Calamine also dries oozing or weeping from minor skin irritation.
• Till you apply this medicine, wash the skin area with soap and water and then dry it thoroughly.
• Apply calamine directly to the skin and rub in gently, allowing the medication to dry on your skin. You may also use a cotton ball to smooth the medication onto your skin. Calamine may leave a thin movie on the skin as it dries. You may cover the treated area with loose clothing, but calamine can stain fabrics it comes in contact with.
• This medicine can be applied 3 to 4 times every day.
• Call your doctor if your skin condition does not get better after using calamine regularly for 1 week. Contact your doctor at any time if your symptoms get worse.
• Calamine can reason nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, and diarrhea if it is swallowed. Call your doctor or a poison control center right away if anyone accidentally swallows this medicine.
• Calamine topical (for the skin) is used to treat itching and skin irritation caused by chicken pox, insect bites or stings, measles, eczema, sunburn, poison ivy, and another minor skin conditions.
• This medicine may also be used for another purposes not listed in this medicine guide.
• Till using this medicine, speak your doctor if you have any allergies. Do not use calamine if the product contains any ingredient you may be allergic to.
• Call your doctor if your skin condition does not get better after using calamine regularly for 1 week. Contact your doctor at any time if your symptoms get worse.
• It is not known if using calamine while you are pregnant will be deleterious to the unborn child. Do not use this medicine without telling your doctor if you are pregnant.
• It is not known if calamine 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 calamine exactly as directed on the label, or as your doctor has predesigned it for you. Do not use more of the medicine than recommended. Do not use calamine for longer than recommended.
• Till you apply this medicine, wash the skin area with soap and water and then dry it thoroughly.
• Shake the calamine lotion well just till every use.
• Apply calamine directly to the skin and rub in gently, allowing the medication to dry on your skin. You may also use a cotton ball to smooth the medication onto your skin. Wash your hands with soap and water after applying the medicine.
• Calamine may leave a thin movie on the skin as it dries. You may cover the treated area with loose clothing, but calamine can stain fabrics it comes in contact with.
• This medicine can be applied 3 to 4 times every day.
• If your skin condition does not improve after using calamine for 7 days, conversation with your doctor about other treatment.
• Store calamine 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.
• Calamine can reason nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, and diarrhea if it is swallowed. Call your doctor or a poison control center right away if anyone accidentally swallows this medicine.
• Calamine is for use only on your skin. Avoid getting this medication in your eyes or internal your mouth or nose. If the medication does get into these areas, rinse thoroughly with water.
• Avoid applying another creams, lotions, ointments, or another medicated skin commodity to the same areas you treat with calamine.
• 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 redness, rash, pus, or another signs of infection.
• 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.
• There may be another drugs that can affect calamine. Speak your doctor about all the prescription and over-the-counter medications you use. This includes vitamins, minerals, herbal commodity, and drugs predesigned by another doctors. Do not start using a new medicine without telling your doctor.
• Your pharmacist can provide more information about calamine topical.
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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