![]() ![]() Use the cream or lotion on your body when your skin is cool and dry. Use permethrin surface spray to disinfect non-washable items such as: furniture mattresses and pillows stuffed toys hats, gloves, and scarves headphones or headbands the inside of a bike helmet or seats and carpets inside your car. ![]() One application is generally curative but may be repeated after 7 days, if necessary. How is scabies treated Follow instructions from your healthcare provider and pharmacist. Usually, 30 gm of cream is sufficient to treat an average adult but if necessary, maximum two tubes (60 gm) can be used as a single dose. The cream must be reapplied to any area that may be washed during the treatment time (such as after washing of hand). The cream should be left on for 8-12 hours before washing off. For babies, aged 2 months to 2 years, geriatric and immunocompromised patients, the cream should be applied to the face, neck, ears, and scalp as well, only avoiding the area immediately around the eyes and mouth. Application of Permethrin cream is quite useful and effective in treating scabies and head lice. For adults and children over 2 years, apply the cream to the whole body from the neck down, rubbing lightly on the skin until the cream disappears. Use and side-effects of Permethrin Cream. If body is warm due to hot bath or any other reason, skin should be allowed to cool. Permite 5 Cream has some side effects like itching, redness, and rash at the site of application. This medicine works by killing the mites, lice and their eggs thereby curing the infection. It is used for the treatment of scabies in adults and children aged from 2 months, and crab lice in adults. Cream should be applied to clean, cool and dry skin. Permite 5 Cream is a medicine that contains Permethrin. Thoroughly rinse and towel dry the hair and scalp. ![]() For the treatment of head lice (1 lotion): Shampoo the hair and scalp using regular shampoo. Use as much of the medicine as you need and discard any remaining lotion properly. Permethrin Cream, 5 is contraindicated in patients with known hypersensitivity to any of its components, to any synthetic pyrethroid or pyrethrin. Saleh Rifai BCMAS, Pharm.D Reviewed By Dr. Permethrin lotion which is used to treat lice, comes in a container that holds only one treatment. Patients aged over 2 months can use Permethrin cream. Permethrin Cream, 5 is indicated for the treatment of infestation with Sarcoptes scabiei (scabies). Adults and children over 12 years : A full tube.Ĭhildren aged 6-12 years : Up to 1/2 of a tube.Ĭhildren aged 1-5 years : Up to 1/4 of a tube.Ĭhildren aged 2 months to 1 year: Up to 1/8 of a tube. ![]()
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