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Medically reviewed by Militian Inessa Mesropovna, PharmD. Last updated on 26.06.2023
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Cetrimide is a quaternary ammonium compound used as a detergent and having powerful antiseptic properties, for sterilizing surgical instruments, cleaning wounds, etc.
Cetrimide is indicated for the treatment of primitively bacterial skin diseases or diseases subject to superinfection.
Topical/Cutaneous
Wound cleansing
Adult: Apply 0.1-1% aqueous solution or 0.5% cream onto affected area.
Incompatibility: Incompatible with soaps and other anionic surfactants, bentonite, iodine, phenylmercuric nitrate and alkali hydroxides.
Topical/Cutaneous
Seborrhoeic dermatitis
Adult: Apply 10% shampoo solution onto the scalp.
Incompatibility: Incompatible with soaps and other anionic surfactants, bentonite, iodine, phenylmercuric nitrate and alkali hydroxides.
Application on the mucous membranes especially genital mucous membranes (risk of balanitis and erosive vaginitis).
- Hypersensitivity to one of the constituents, in particular to the derivatives of quaternary ammoniums and to paraben.
- This product must not come in contact with eyes, brain, meninges, or penetrate the otic cavity in case of tympanic perforation.
- Infants who have previously experienced convulsions with or without fever (due to the terpene derivatives present in the excipients).
Cetrimide protects and heals infection of cuts, grazes, insect bite, minor burns and wounds.
There are specific as well as general uses of a drug or medicine. A medicine can be used to prevent a disease, treat a disease over a period or cure a disease. It can also be used to treat the particular symptom of the disease. The drug use depends on the form the patient takes it. It may be more useful in injection form or sometimes in tablet form. The drug can be used for a single troubling symptom or a life-threatening condition. While some medications can be stopped after few days, some drugs need to be continued for prolonged period to get the benefit from it.Gamma benzene hexachloride is used for the treatment of pediculosis capitis (highly contagious infection caused by infestation with human head louse, which is usually very itchy) and scabies (itchy, highly contagious skin disease caused by an infestation by the itch mite Sarcoptes scabiei).
The quaternary ammoniums are incompatible with soaps and anionic compounds.
-The quaternary ammoniums are inactive in the presence of cellulose and cotton fibers.
Chlorhexidine and Cetrimide Irrigation Solution helps most people when used for washing and cleansing the skin or wounds, but it may have some unwanted side-effects in a few people.
All medicines can have side effects. Sometimes they are serious, most of the time they are not. You may need medical treatment if you get some of the side effects.
Tell your doctor if you experience a skin rash or reaction. If you get a skin rash it may be because you have had an allergic reaction to the irrigation. If this is the case, you should no longer use this irrigation.
Tell your doctor, nurse or pharmacist as soon as possible if you feel anything unusual during or after Chlorhexidine and Cetrimide Irrigation Solution has been used.
Nausea, Burning sensation, Dizziness, Hair loss, Headache, Skin irritation