Pramoxine

Today I came up with a theory that fit the facts, then looked up some references that supported the theory. Cool!

At dinner today I noticed a red area on my arm around a small scratch I got a couple of nights ago. Neither the red area nor the scratch hurt particularly. It's not infected. It looked almost like a bit of light sunburn.

We were out in the sun today for about an hour and the red patch was... hmmm, about the size, shape, and diameter from the scratch of the or=inrmtnet I had applied that morning. I wondered...

So I did a web search for the antibiotic ointment - Neosporin, containing neomycin, bacitracin, and polymixin. I found a useful page that told me there were "no problems expected" from sun exposure. Hmmm.

Oh yes! Then I remembered that I hadn't used the "regular" Neosporin, but the variation containing Pramoxine Hcl to combat itching. So I looked up pramoxine.

There it was. Pramoxine is listed as a sun-sensitizing drug.

It's also interesting to note that pramoxine is one of the topical ointments used to fight the itch of sunburn ;-)

Pramoxine ( in category Gemisch/Gallimaufry , SciTech ) - posted at Sat, 04 Sep, 22:30 Pacific | «e»