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What is Nadifloxacin used for?
This antibiotic topical treatment helps combat bacterial skin infections such as impetigo, folliculitis, infected eczema, acne vulgaris, and other dermal conditions. It is also helpful in reducing skin redness, inflammation, tenderness, pimples, and bacteria related conditions.
How does Nadifloxacin work?
Being a fluoroquinolone antibiotic, Nadifloxacin inhibits the bacterial DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV. These two enzymes help bacterial repair and DNA replication. However, due to the medication’s action, these enzymes are reduced and inhibited. This puts a stop to bacterial inflammation and healing of the infected site due to reduced bacterial growth.
What are the Nadifloxacin ingredients and available forms?
The medicine is available as a topical treatment such as gels, creams, and lotions. The active ingredient in all these formats is at least 1% nadifloxacin. This product is meant for external application and use on the acne or infected spot on skin.
How long does Nadifloxacin take to act?
By regularly applying Nadifloxacin, you can find significant improvement in the skin skin and bacterial condition. It reduces acne symptoms and effects are seen within a few days of application – somewhere within 1 to 2 weeks. However, time taken to act or see visible effects will depend on the person’s treatment response and severity of infection.
How long does the treatment with Nadifloxacin last?
The treatment duration with Nadifloxacin may go on for one to two weeks. For mild infections and acne, you may have to continue with this topical medicine as recommended by your physician. This will restrict recurrent episodes by eliminating the harmful bacteria.
What are the Nadifloxacin benefits?
Nadifloxacin has several benefits starting with acting as a treatment for bacterial skin infections by restricting bacteria such as Staphylococcus species and Propionibacterium acnes. This medicine is useful to fight skin swelling, acne, infection, inflammation, and redness caused from bacterial problems. It is also a topical application, easy to use substance.
What are the Nadifloxacin application tips and dosing?
Apply this topical medicine once or twice a day on the infected skin. Make sure to clean the affected skin spot beforehand. The treatment can take from 7 to 14 days. Remember to avoid applying Nadifloxacin on mucous membranes and in eyes.
What are the Nadifloxacin side effects?
Side effects are temporary, mild, and may not affect everyone. Some of the common ones are skin redness, irritation, burning sensation, itching, dryness, etc. on the application site.
What are precautions and contraindications of Nadifloxacin?
Those with allergy to fluoroquinolones and other ingredients of this topical formulation, must seek an alternate treatment. Do not use this medicine on broken skin beyond infection, eyes, during breastfeeding and pregnancy without consent from your doctor. Also, this product is not recommended for children or in treating systemic infections without medical supervision.