KENALOG (TRIAMCINOLINE) (KENACORT)
Kenalog Information
Kenalog is a popular drug that is also known as Triamcinoline and as Kenacort. This drug belongs to a wide class of medicines that are also called tropical steroid. This medicine is known to inhibit or at least to reduce the actions of some harmful chemicals that are sometimes found in the human organism and that are known to cause redness, inflammation and swelling. This drug comes in an ointment solution or cream.
Kenalog Indications
Kenalog is a medicine that is regularly prescribed in the treatment of inflammation. This medical condition can be triggered by a variety of factors such as Eczema, allergic reactions, andpsoriasis. However, this medicine might also serve some other purposes other than the ones that have been listed in this guide.
Kenalog Warnings
Kenalog is a category C FDA pregnancy medicine. Therefore, it is known that a treatment with this drug during pregnancy could have severe and harmful effects on an unborn child. If you are pregnant or if you are planning to be so soon, you should ask for your personal physician’s approval before you start taking Kenalog. Your personal healthcare provider might want to closely monitor your treatment with this medicine too see if the pregnancy is affected in any way.
It has not been clearly determined whether Kenalog’s main ingredients are able to pass into the patient’s breast milk or not. If you are currently breastfeeding an infant, you should not start using this medicine without your physician’s approval. Before you start taking this product, you must alert your personal physician if you are suffering from known allergic reactions to this medicine, to any of its main ingredients, to other medicines, foods, dyes or preservatives.
Kenalog Intake Guidelines
Follow each and every one of the advices that your doctor has given you regarding your treatment with Kenalog (do not disobey any of them). If you have any further questions you should ask a doctor, a pharmacist or a nurse. You should also carefully read the set of instructions from your drug’s label. This medicine should be taken in exactly as prescribed by your physician. Do not use more or less than what he or she has instructed you to.
You should carefully wash both your hands in order to use Kenalog ointment or cream (you must do this before and after using this medicine, provided that you are not treating a hand condition). You must only use a very small amount of this medicine and put it on the affected skin area. Rub the medicine gently until it has been completely absorbed into the skin. You must not let this medicine come into direct contact with your mouth, eyes or mucous membranes. Applying Triamcinoline (Kenacort) to a healthy skin area could have dangerous effects.
Kenalog Dosage
Ask your doctor to calculate the dose of Kenalogthat suits you best. You must not deviate from the dose that you have been prescribed in any way. The correct dosage varies from one patient to another, as it depends on a couple of factors (among them: body weight, the disorder’s severity, etc).
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