How Long To Use Cream?

[spathiphyllum]

I had a raised mole with an odd red ring around it (If you know you know)

I went docs he gave me a cream with a steroid and antibiotic in it I think the cream began with F (I've not got it on me).

The doc didn't say when to stop using this cream.. Any ideas when i should?

The red ring has dramatically decreased in inflammation and is almost on the way out but not yet 100% there. I'd not want to stop using the cream and it some how come back? I know you need to finish a course of antibiotics but what about cream?

It says throw out after 3 months of opening.

[Baldric]

Use it until it runs out or chuck out after 3 months, whichever comes first.

[calmck]

Fucadine? How long have you been using it? I would continue for another 2 to 3 days and ask practice nurse to confirm

[retrocop]

Didn't it have instructions for useage on the box when you picked it up?

[spathiphyllum]

It might be Fucidin it does have the Leo lion on it and began with an F but i thought my pack was green.

Read instructions? MMM i probably should have.

[retrocop]

I will check out an old copy of the wife's MIMs. That usually gives doseage,contra-indications, price etc.

[douglas9401]

https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/5510/pil

[spathiphyllum]

Thank you Retro

[woofgang]

NHS website says 1 to 2 weeks....is there no info on the prescription label which should have been stuck on the box or tube?
https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/fusidic-acid/

[spathiphyllum]

I've been told to use it twice a day but not for how long. I was told to apply a very thin layer for external use only.

Cheers doug. I'll try check what the actual name is to guarantee

[spathiphyllum]

Prescription label said.. Use twice a day, apply a thin layer for external use only discard any remaining cream after 3 months of opening.

It also had my name on it :)

[retrocop]

According to the British National Formulary, Page 658 0f the 2009 edition. Fucidin cream (Leo) should be applied 3-4 times daily. Does not say the duration so,as Baldric advises,take it til it runs out.

[spathiphyllum]

I shall get name of cream and come back to ya'll

[Sqad]

Use it until your symptoms have disappeared...i.e unti the itching and or pain has gone.
It is unlikely that the "mole " will ever disappear with that cream as it is an anti-fungal.
If in the next 2 weeks you are not symptom free, then go back to your GP.

[spathiphyllum]

Sqad it never itched or hurt. It just looked very different physically. What i'm hoping disappears is the red mark around it. It's a lot less prominent now but still there.

[Sqad]

O.K then continue for another 2 weeks to see if the inflammation disappears. If it doesn't then the diagnosis is open to dispute in which case see your GP again.

[spathiphyllum]

OK thanks sqad.


Will still try to update with correct cream name.

[spathiphyllum]

It’s “fucibet”

[spathiphyllum]

Bump.

[Sqad]

Well, that isn't an anti-fungal cream and IF fungus is the correct diagnosis then you have having the correct treatment.
I don't think your GP knows the nature of your skin lesion so I would suggest that you give it another 2 weeks .

[spathiphyllum]

Sqad i'm unsure why you think it's fungal.

It seemed the mole was bruised and raised but it has settled now, redness gone. I thought the cream was to help tread the bruising