Clocip-B Cream (combination medicine)

Clocip-B Cream

Weight: 10g
Prescription Required
MANUFACTURER: Cipla Ltd
SALT COMPOSITION: Beclometasone (0.025% w/v) + Clotrimazole (1% w/v)

Note: 'Beclometasone' is in the form of 'Beclometasone Dipropionate'.

Branding text: Broad-spectrum Antimycotic Anti-inflammatory and Antipruritic

Antimycotic: An antifungal medication, also known as an antimycotic medication, is a pharmaceutical fungicide or fungistatic used to treat and prevent mycosis such as athlete's foot, ringworm, candidiasis (thrush), serious systemic infections such as cryptococcal meningitis, and others.

Antipruritic: Antipruritics, also known as anti-itch drugs, are medications that inhibit the itching (Latin: pruritus) often associated with sunburns, allergic reactions, eczema, psoriasis, chickenpox, fungal infections, insect bites and stings like those from mosquitoes, fleas, and mites, and contact dermatitis and urticaria caused by plants such as poison ivy (urushiol-induced contact dermatitis) or stinging nettle.

Description

Clocip-B Cream is a combination medicine. It is used to treat various types of skin infections usually the fungal type of skin infections. It minimizes symptoms of inflammation such as redness, swelling, and itching. It also acts against the infection-causing microorganisms.

Clocip-B Cream is a combination of two medicines, Clotrimazole and Beclometasone, used to treat skin infections caused by fungi. 

These include infections like athlete’s foot, ringworm, vaginal thrush, and sweat rash. 

% Clotrimazole works by killing and stopping the growth of fungi, thereby clearing the infection and relieving the symptoms. 

% Beclometasone blocks the release of chemicals that cause symptoms such as itching, redness and swelling. 

Therefore this medicine relieves the inflammation due to these infections.

HOW CLOCIP-B CREAM WORKS

Clocip-B Cream is a combination of two medicines: Beclometasone and Clotrimazole which treat skin infections. 

% Beclometasone is a steroid which blocks the production of certain chemical messengers (prostaglandins) that make the skin red, swollen and itchy. 

% Clotrimazole is an antifungal which stops the growth of fungi on the skin by preventing them from forming their own protective covering.

References
Clotrimazole. Potters Bar: Generics [UK] Limited; 10 Oct. 1987 [revised 6 Jun. 2016]. [Accessed 26 Apr. 2019] (online) Available from:External Link
ScienceDirect. Beclometasone. [Accessed 04 Apr. 2019] (online) Available from:External Link

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