Manufacturer: Oscar Remedies Pvt Ltd
Salt Composition : Trioxasalen(5mg)
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Melin 5mg Tablet is a medicine used in the treatment of vitiligo and psoriasis. It reduces the overproduction of skin cells and helps to re-pigment the discolored, white patches.
Melin 5mg Tablet is taken after meals in a dose and duration as advised by the doctor. Taking with food helps to increase absorption of the medication as well as decrease nausea. The dose you are given will depend on your condition and how you respond to the medicine. You should keep taking this medicine for as long as your doctor recommends. If you stop treatment too early your symptoms may come back and your condition may worsen. Let your doctor know about all other medications you are taking as some may affect, or be affected by this medicine.
The most common side effects of Melin 5mg Tablet are nausea, itching, and redness of the skin. Most of these are temporary and usually resolve with time. Contact your doctor straight away if you are at all concerned about any of these side effects.
Taking this medicine makes the skin more sensitive to the sun. Use sunscreen and wear protective clothing when outdoors. Try to avoid exposure of your skin and lips to sunlight for eight hours after treatment. It is not recommended for children under the age of 14 years. Avoid eating certain foods like limes, figs, parsley, parsnips, mustard, carrots, and celery, as they may increase skin's sensitivity to light.
Trioxsalen ispharmacologically inactive but when exposed to ultraviolet radiation or sunlight it is converted to its active metabolite to produce a beneficial reaction affecting the diseased tissue. After photoactivation it creates interstrand cross-links in DNA, which can cause programmed cell death
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Itching
Erythema (skin redness)
Nausea
Contraindicated in patients with porphyria (reddish-purple color urine), acute autoimmune disease or white patches and in children less than 12 years.
Information regarding the use of Melin 5mg Tablet during pregnancy is not available. Please consult your doctor.
It is not known whether it is safe to consume alcohol with Melin 5mg Tablet. Please consult your doctor.
Information regarding the use of Melin 5mg Tablet during breastfeeding is not available. Please consult your doctor.
This medication is a photosensitizer (psoralen derivative), used for vitiligo along with ultraviolet light.
Eating certain foods while you are taking trioxsalen may increase your skin's sensitivity to sunlight. To help prevent this, avoid eating limes, figs, parsley, parsnips, mustard, carrots, and celery while you are being treated with this medicine. This medicine may cause your skin to become dry or itchy.
Swallow it as a whole. Do not chew, crush or break it. Melin 5mg Tablet is to be taken with food.
Store below 30°C
Consult a doctor before taking any medicines
Melin 5mg Tablet is given for the treatment of skin disorders like vitiligo and psoriasis.
Use sunscreen with your doctor’s consultation and wear UVA-absorbing wrap-around sunglasses following treatment with Melin 5mg Tablet.
Wear clothing that protects your skin from the sun.
Be careful before applying anything to your skin to treat dryness and itchiness caused by Melin 5mg Tablet.
Take this medicine in the dose and duration as advised by your doctor. Swallow it as a whole. Do not chew, crush or break it. Melin 5mg Tablet is to be taken with food.
