Consumer Medication Information Leaflet(RiMUP)

KETOZOL CREAM
Ketoconazole (2%w/w)

What is in this leaflet - How long to use it - MAL number:

1. What Ketozol is used for You should check with your doctor or MAL19991432AZ
2. How Ketozol works pharmacist.
3. Before you use Ketozol Manufacturer and Product Registration
4. How to use Ketozol - If you forget to use it Holder
5. While you are using Ketozol If forget to use this medicine, use it as Prime Pharmaceutical Sdn. Bhd.
6. Side effects soon as remember. Then next, use this 1505, Lorong Perusahaan Utama 1
7. Storage and Disposal of medicine at the usual time. Taman Perindustrian Bukit Tengah
Ketozol 14000 Bukit Mertajam, Penang, Malaysia.
8. Product description - If you use too much (overdose)
9. Manufacturer and Product If used too much Ketozol, contact your Date of revision
Registration holder doctor, an emergency department or a 16/05/2017
10.Date of revision poison center immediately.
Serial number
What Ketozol is used for While you are using Ketozol BPFK(R4/1)16052017/00106
It is used for fungal and yeast infections of - Things you must do
the skin of the chest or back (pityriasis Inform doctor of medications taking.
versicolor), foot (athlete’s foot), trunk, legs
and arms (tinea corporis), groin (tinea - Things you must not do
cruris and scalp (seborrheic dermatitis). Do not stop using medication although
feeling better after a few days, until the
How Ketozol works prescribed course is finished.
It is an antifungal, which works by killing
the fungus that causes the infections. - Things to be careful of
If pregnant or become pregnant or breast-
Before you use Ketozol feeding during treatment, should not use
- When you must not use it Ketozol unless doctor advised.
- allergic to the ingredients of the product.
Side effects
- Before you start to use it Irritation, inflammation of the skin or a
Compliance with full course of therapy, burning sensation may occur. If any of the
fungal infection may require prolonged side effects become serious or any other
treatment. Any steroid cream treatment side effects not listed in this leaflet, please
should be reduced gradually when starting inform the doctor or pharmacist.
on ketoconazole cream to avoid skin You may report any side effects or adverse
irritation. This cream is not for use of the drug reactions directly to the National
eyes. Centre for Adverse Drug Reaction
Monitoring by calling Tel: 03-78835550, or
- Taking other medicines visiting the website npra.moh.gov.my
The medicine is for topical application, (Public  Reporting Medicinal Problems /
usually will have minimal effect on other Side Effects / AEFI / Vaccine Safety).
medications. However, please inform the
doctor or pharmacist if taking other Storage and Disposal of Ketozol
medicines. - Storage
Store in cool, dry place below 30oC.
How to use Ketozol Protect from light. Keep out of reach of
- How much to use children.
Apply once or twice daily and continue
for at least a few days after symptoms - Disposal
disappear. Depending on the severity of Ask your pharmacist how to dispose of
the infection, the usual duration of medicines no longer required.
treatment for: white spots: 2-3 weeks,
yeast infections: 2-3 weeks, skin: 2-4 Product description
weeks, scalp: 3 - 4 weeks, legs: 4-6 weeks, - What it looks like
dandruff: 2 - 4 weeks. Diagnosis should be White opaque cream.
reconsidered if no improvement is noted
after 4 weeks of treatment. - Ingredients:
- Active ingredients: ketoconazole
- When to use it - Inactive ingredients: liquid paraffin,
Please follow the advice of the doctor or cetomacrogol emulsifying wax, white
pharmacist. soft paraffin, chlorocresol, disodium
edetate and purified water.