Active ingredients: Penciclovir
Fenistil Cold Sore Cream.
Cream.
Smooth white cream of homogeneous appearance.
Each gram of the cream contains: 10 mg penciclovir.
Excipients with known effect: cetostearyl alcohol, propylene glycol.
For a full list of excipients, see section 6.1.
Penciclovir has demonstrated in vivo and in vitro activity against herpes simplex viruses (types 1 and 2) and varicella zoster virus. Penciclovir triphosphate persists in infected cells for more than 12 hours where it inhibits replication of viral DNA and has a half-life of 9, 10 and 20 hours in cells infected with varicella zoster virus, herpes simplex virus type 1 and herpes simplex virus type 2 respectively.
White soft paraffin
Liquid paraffin
Cetostearyl alcohol
Propylene glycol
Cetomacrogol 1000
Purified water
2g aluminium tube.
Omega Pharma Ltd., 1st Floor, 32 Vauxhall Bridge Road, LONDON, SW1V 2SA, United Kingdom
PL 02855/0306
23/08/2006