INDICATIONS:
Aldara (imiquimod) is surely an immune response modifier. Aldara is utilized to help remedy actinic keratosis (a condition caused by too much sun exposure) for the face and scalp.
Aldara (for that skin) can be used to treat a small kind of skin cancer called superficial basal cell carcinoma, when surgery wouldn't be a suitable treatment.
Aldara also treats genital warts that appear for the outside with the body, but this medicine is not a cure for genital warts. Imiquimod may be employed in adults and children who're at the very least 12 years.
Aldara may also be used for purposes not listed on this medication guide.
INSTRUCTIONS
Use Aldara as directed from your doctor.
STORAGE
Store Aldara at room temperature from moisture and warmth. Do not freeze. Keep each packet unopened until you happen to be ready to work with it.
Get emergency medical help when you have all of these indications of an allergic response to Aldara: hives; breathlessness; swelling of one's face, lips, tongue, or throat. Wash off the medicine and call your doctor at once for those who have a significant skin reaction for example severe itching, burning, oozing, bleeding, or skin changes the place that the medicine is applied.
Stop using Aldara and call a medical expert immediately when you have a critical side effect including flu symptoms including fever, chills, body aches, tired feeling, swollen glands. When treating genital warts round the vagina, if you have severe swelling or urination problems, stop using Aldara and call your physician immediately.
Do NOT use Aldara for those who have any of these or another conditions:
sunburn or other skin problems;
a weak disease fighting capability or autoimmune disorder;
graft-versus-host disease;
in case you have ended up treated for actinic keratosis or genital warts with surgery or any other medications; or
for those who have recently received a bone marrow transplant or cord blood transplant.
Avoid getting Aldara with your eyes, mouth, and nose, or on the lips. Do not position the cream in your rectum, vagina, or urethra. If it does get into some of these areas, rinse with water. Do not use Aldara on sunburned, windburned, dry, chapped, irritated, or broken skin.
Avoid using other medications on the areas you treat with Aldara unless your physician informs you to.
Avoid experience of sunlight or tanning beds. Aldara will make you sunburn easier. Wear protective clothing and employ sunscreen (SPF 30 or higher) when you might be outdoors.
Avoid having unprotected sex. Imiquimod is not only a cure for genital warts, and it will not force away sexually transmitted diseases like chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes, HIV, syphilis, and trichomoniasis. Talk with your doctor about safe approaches to prevent transmission during sex.
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