Marie Biancuzzo wrote:
> >The ointment is:
> >
> >mupirocin 2% ointment (5 grams)
> >nystatin 100,000 units/ml ointment (5 grams)
> >clotrimazole 10% (this is the vaginal cream) (5 grams)
> >betamethasone 0.1% ointment (5 grams)
> >
> I can think of a reason to *not* use this ointment. Unless you have
> privileges to prescribe medicine AND prepare pharmacologic compounds,
> you're asking for legal trouble. At least in the US, mupirocin (Bactoban)
> is a prescription drug, but the whole issue of compounding, even for OTC
> products, is quite another question.
>
> Further the clortrimazole, usually known as Lotrimin in the OTC market here
> in the US, is generally 1%, not 10%, as I recall.
>
> I'm sorry to sound negative, but I'd like to get people to just stop and
> think about the implications of this action.

The good news is I have taken this *receipe* into my HCP and he was
willing to prescribe it for me.  I have also recommended the same action
to other BFing moms and it has been met with some success.
--
Monique
Noah 6/97, ?? edd 6/18/00
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It will be gone before you know it.  The fingerprints on the wall appear
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Dorothy Evslin

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