TRETINOIN TOPICAL

(TRET in oin) Brand: Altinac, Atralin, Avita, Renova, Retin A Micro Gel, Retin-A, Tretin-X

What is the most significant information I must know about tretinoin topical?

• Avoid exposure to sunlight or artificial UV rays (sunlamps or tanning beds). Tretinoin topical can create your skin more sensitive to sunlight and sunburn may result. Use a sunscreen (minimum SPF 15) and wear protective clothing if you should be out in the sun.

• Avoid getting this medicine in your eyes, mouth, and nose, or on your lips. If it does get into any of these areas, wash with water. Do not use tretinoin topical on sunburned, windburned, dry, chapped, irritated, or broken skin. Also avoid using this medicine in wounds or on areas of eczema. Wait before these conditions have healed till using tretinoin topical.

• Use this medicine for as much days as it has been predesigned for you even if you think it is not working. It may take weeks or months of use till you announcement improvement in your skin. If you are using tretinoin topical to treat acne, your condition may get slightly worse for a short time when you first start using the medicine. Call your doctor if skin irritation becomes severe or if your acne does not improve within 8 to 12 weeks.

What is tretinoin topical?

• Tretinoin is a topical (applied to the skin) form of vitamin A that helps the skin renew itself.

• The Retin-A and Avita brands of tretinoin are used to treat acne. The Renova brand of tretinoin is used to reduce the appearance of beautiful wrinkles and mottled skin discoloration, and to create rough facial skin feel smoother.

• Tretinoin topical may also be used for another purposes not listed in this medicine guide.

What must I discuss with my healthcare provider till using tretinoin topical?

• FDA pregnancy category C. It is not known whether tretinoin topical is deleterious to an unborn child. Till taking this medicine, speak your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant during treatment.

• Tretinoin topical can pass into breast milk and may harm a nursing child. Do not use this medicine without telling your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby.

How must I use tretinoin topical?

• Use tretinoin topical exactly as your doctor has predesigned it for you. Using more medication or applying it more often than predesigned will not create it work any faster, and may magnify side effects. Do not use this medicine for longer than your doctor has prescribed.

• Wash your hands till and after applying tretinoin topical. Till applying, clean and dry the skin area to be treated.

• Applying tretinoin topical to wet skin may reason skin irritation. If you use Renova, wait at least 20 minutes after washing your person till applying a thin layer of the medication.

• Do not wash the treated area for at least 1 hour after applying tretinoin topical. Avoid the use of another skin commodity on the treated area for at least 1 hour next application of tretinoin topical.

• Applying an overweening amount of tretinoin gel may result in "pilling" of the medicine. If this occurs, use a thinner layer of gel with the following application.

• Tretinoin topical must be used as part of a complete skin care program that includes avoiding sunlight and using an effective sunscreen and protective clothing.

• Store tretinoin topical at room temperature away from moisture and heat. The gel formulations of Retin-A are flammable, hold them away from open flame.

What happens if I miss a dose?

• Use 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.

What happens if I overdose?

• Search abnormal medical attention if you think you have used too many of this medication. Tretinoin topical is not expected to reason overdose symptoms.

What must I avoid while using tretinoin topical?

• Avoid getting this medicine in your eyes, mouth, and nose, or on your lips. If it does get into any of these areas, wash with water. Do not use tretinoin topical on skin that is sunburned, windburned, dry, chapped, or irritated. Also avoid using this medicine in wounds or on areas of eczema. Wait before these conditions have healed till using tretinoin topical.

• Avoid using skin commodity that can reason irritation, such as harsh soaps, shampoos, or skin cleansers, hair coloring or permanent chemicals, hair removers or waxes, or skin commodity with alcohol, spices, astringents, or lime. Do not use another medicine skin commodity unless your doctor has told you to.

• Your skin may be more sensitive to weather extremes such as cool and wind while using this medicine.

What are the possible side effects of tretinoin topical?

• 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.

• Smaller serious side effects may include burning, warmth, stinging, tingling, itching, redness, swelling, dryness, peeling, irritation, or discolored skin.

• 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.

What another drugs will affect tretinoin topical?

• Do not use skin commodity that contain benzoyl peroxide, sulfur, resorcinol, or salicylic acid unless otherwise directed by your doctor. These commodity can reason severe skin irritation if used with tretinoin topical.

• The next drugs can interact with tretinoin topical, which can create your skin more sensitive to natural and artificial sunlight. Till using this medicine, speak your doctor if you are using any of these:

· a diuretic (water pill);

· tetracycline (Sumycin, Panmycin, Robitet), minocycline (Minocin), doxycycline (Doryx, Vibramycin), demeclocycline (Declomycin), and others;

· an antibiotic such as ciprofloxacin (Cipro), ofloxacin (Floxin), and others;

· a sulfa drug such as Bactrim, Septra, Cotrim, and others; or

· chlorpromazine (Thorazine), prochlorperazine (Compazine), fluphenazine (Permitil, Prolixin), promethazine (Phenergan, Promethegan), perphenazine (Trilafon), and others.

• This list is not complete and there may be another drugs that can affect tretinoin topical. 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.

Where can I get more information?

• Your pharmacist can provide more information about tretinoin 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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