Ofmelid® is a combined preparation, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, locally anesthetic, regenerative. Active substances are ofloxacin, methyluracil and lidocaine.
Ofloxacin is a broad-spectrum antimicrobial agent from the group of fluoroquinolones. Has a bactericidal effect due to blockade of DNA-gyrase in bacterial cells. DNA-gyrase is necessary for replication, transcription, repair and recombination of bacterial DNA. Its inhibition leads to the unwinding and destabilization of bacterial DNA and, as a result, to the death of the microbial cell.
Microorganisms highly sensitive to ofloxacin (IPC ≤0.5 mg / l):
- Gram-positive aerobes - Staphylococcus aureus methi-S (methicillin-sensitive strains), Staphylococcus coagulase negative (coagulase-negative staphylococci: Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus saprophyticus, Staphylococcus haemolyticus, Staphylococcus hominis and etc.);
- Gram-negative aerobes - Aeromonas hydrophila, Bordetella spp., Brucella spp, Campylobacter jejuni, Citrobacter spp. (including Citrobacter freundii), Enterobacter spp. (including Enterobacter cloacae, Enterobacter aerogenes, Escherichia coli, Haemophilus ducreyi, Haemophilus influenzae, Haemophilus parainfluenzae, Klebsiella spp. (including Klebsiella pneumonia), Moraxella (Brahamella) catarrhalis, Morganella morganii, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Neisseria meningitides, Plesiomonas spp, Proteus spp. (Proteus mirabilis, Proteus vulgaris (indole + and indole -)), Providencia spp., Salmonella spp., Serratia (including Serratia marcescens), Shigella spp. (including Shigella sonnei), Vibrio spp. (including Vibrio cholerae, Vibrio parahaemolyticus), Yersinia spp. (including Yersinia enterocolitica);
- anaerobes - Clostridium perfringens, Helicobacter pylori, Propionibacterium acnes;
- other - Chlamydia trachomatis, Legionella spp., Mycoplasma spp. (including Mycoplasma hominis).
Microorganisms moderately sensitive to ofloxacin:
Acinetobacter spp. (including Acinetobacter calcoaceticus), Bacteroides fragilis, Bacteroides urealyticus, Chlamydia psittaci, Gardnerella vaginalis, Enterococcus faecalis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium leprae, anaerobic Gram-positive cocci (Peptococcus spp., Peptostreptococcus spp., Pseudomonas spp. (including Pseudomonas aeruginosa), Streptococcus spp. (incl. Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus viridians) - only penicillin-sensitive strains, Ureaplasma urealyticum.
Microorganisms, resistant to ofloxacin (IPC > 1 mg / L):
Acinetobacter baumannii, most strains Enterococcus spp., Listeria monocytogenes, Nocardia spp, (incl. Nocardia asteroids), methicillin-resistant strains Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus spp. (Staphylococci methi-R), Treponema pallidum.
Methyluracil stimulator of tissue repair. Has anabolic activity. Accelerates the processes of cellular regeneration in wounds, accelerating the growth and granulation maturation of tissue and epithelization.
Lidocaine has a local anesthetic effect due to blockade Na +channels, which prevents the generation of pulses in the endings of sensitive neurons and impulses along nerve fibers. With external application dilates blood vessels, does not have a locally irritating effect. The water-soluble (hydrophilic) and hyperosmolar basis of the ointment is a mixture of polyethylene oxides (polyethylene glycols) with a molecular mass of 400 and 1500 (PEO-400 and PEO-1500 or PEG-400 and PEG-1500), providing a dehydrating (moisture-absorbing) and osmotic effect on the tissue that 20 times greater than the action of 10% sodium chloride solution and lasts up to 18-20 hours.