Silvadene Dressing
Wear special gloves while putting silvadene silver sulfadiazine on.
Silvadene dressing. How do i change the dressings. Silvadene should be applied under sterile conditions. If some of the cream rubs off the wound reapply it immediately.
What do i do if i miss a dose. Silver sulfadiazine cream is used to prevent and treat wound infections in patients with second and third degree burns. To help clear up your skin or burn infection completely keep using this medicine for the full time of treatment.
Other side effects include low white blood cell. The burns should remain covered with the cream at all times to eliminate and reduce infection risks. Use a dressing if needed.
You should keep using this medicine until the burned area has healed or is ready for skin grafting. Patients with severe burns or burns over a large area of the body must be treated in a hospital. Because sulfonamide therapy is known to increase the possibility of kernicterus silvadene cream 1 should not be used on pregnant women approaching or at term on premature.
Put a thin layer on the affected part and rub in gently. Silver sulfadiazine sold under the brand silvadene among others is a topical antibiotic used in partial thickness and full thickness burns to prevent infection. Put on a missed dose as soon as you think about it.
Silvadene cream 1 silver sulfadiazine is contraindicated in patients who are hypersensitive to silver sulfadiazine or any of the other ingredients in the preparation. Put on 1 or 2 times a day or as you have been told by the doctor. Silvadene silver silver sulfadiazine ssd ssd af thermazene topical cream.