Ointment "Levomekol". What is it for?

The drug Levomecol is one of the best at this time of funds from various wounds, burns, suppuration, etc. It successfully replaces Vishnevsky's ointment, gentamicin and many other similar products. We'll figure out what is his advantage.

Pharmacological properties

If you have a choice, what healing and antiseptic means to buy, let it be the ointment "Levomekol." For what it is intended: removes inflammation, destroys microbes, including staphylococci, E. coli, other parasites. The scope of the drug includes deep penetration into the tissues of the skin, activation of recovery processes, renewal. If the body has areas with severe suppuration, they are also treated with Levomecol, for which bandages with ointment are applied directly to the affected areas. In this case the preparation does not lose its antiseptic properties. They are preserved in the presence of dying tissues. Another plus of the medical device: it does not cause dysbiosis, even if it is injected into the cavities with purulent inflammation.

Structure of the preparation

Finding out what the "Levomekol" ointment is for, what it is intended for, it is impossible not to say about its composition. Auxiliary elements it does not contain, consists only of ingredients with a curative effect. This is a combination of chloramphenicol with methyluracil. Both components determine such a diverse range of effects of the drug. They also contribute to the fact that the "Levomekol" ointment, for whatever it is used, practically does not cause either allergic reactions in the patient or addiction from infectious pathogens.

Indications for treatment

And now more in detail, when we should resort to help means.

• Bedsores, including the old ones, with suppuration and necrotic fragments. Apply gauze bandages, richly lubricated with ointment. If you want to keep the affected area open, just squeeze the right amount of money from the tuba onto it.
• Trophic ulcers - an overlap, similar to the one described above.
• Frictions, fraying, abscesses and boils. With such diseases, the skin is prescribed "Levomecol" ointment for children, and not only for adults.
• External hemorrhoids, including chronic, in the stages of inflammation, bloody, and purulent discharge. It should be used by all who suffer from the disease, especially in severe forms.
• The early stages of gangrene - you need to impose loose bandages.
• Furuncles in the auditory canal. For treatment, gauze is rolled into narrow strands or strips, impregnated with a drug and injected into the auricle, leaving half the day. Then the dressing changes.
• Pustular eruptions, abscesses, inflammations, skin infections of different etiologies.
• Wounds after burns.

Auxiliary action

In addition to antiseptic, "Levomekol" ointment, the price for which varies from 77 rubles to 103 or slightly higher depending on the region, also performs a regenerating, wound - healing effect. In addition, the ointment actively affects the increase in immunity, the body's resistance to various viral and inflammatory infections. Under the influence of methyluracil in the blood, the number of leukocytes increases, and a special protein, interferon, which produces immunostimulating action, is also being actively produced.

The ointment is available in tubes with a capacity of 40 and 100 g, the shelf life is up to three and a half years. Application - external.