How Does ALDARA Cream Work?
How Do I Use ALDARA Cream?
How To Use ALDARA Cream
When Should I Use ALDARA Cream?
Can I Have Sex While Using ALDARA Cream?
What If I Forget A Dose?
What Can I Expect From ALDARA Cream?
Will I Get Any Side Effects From ALDARA Cream?
What Should I Avoid While Using ALDARA Cream?
Who Should Not Use ALDARA Cream?
Description: Aldara is the first-ever genital warts cream that treats genital warts from the inside out. Aldara destroys the virus that causes genital warts without affecting healthy skin. With Aldara, you experience less irritation and discomfort than you would with other topical treatments for genital warts.
ALDARA cream can effectively clear genital warts as early as 4 weeks, although it can take as long as 16 weeks. Results vary from person to person. In clinical trials, about one-half of patients completely cleared their warts.
ALDARA cream is easy to use at home. It's rubbed on the warts and left on during sleeping hours. Then it's washed off after waking.
There are some things people who use ALDARA cream should know:
- Because ALDARA cream doesn't cure HPV, new warts may form during treatment
- ALDARA cream may weaken condoms and diaphragms, so sexual contact should be avoided while the cream is on the skin
- How ALDARA cream affects the spread of genital warts to a partner is not known
- A woman who is or becomes pregnant while using ALDARA cream should notify her health care provider immediately
- Do not use ALDARA to treat internal (inside the vagina or anus) warts
- Skin color changes to the application site have also been reported
Aldara News
Aldara™ (imiquimod) Cream, 5%
Aldara (imiquimod) Cream, 5% is the only patient-applied therapy in a class of drugs referred to as immune response modifiers (IRM). Available by prescription only, Aldara is the only patient-applied cream approved by the FDA for the treatment of external genital and perianal warts. Aldara works by inducing the local production of specific cytokines which activate the body's immune system to clear the genital warts while reducing the level of HPV in the body. 3 Patient-applied Aldara provides patients with an alternative treatment choice.
In clinical studies most local skin reactions seen with Aldara were mild to moderate and included erythema, erosion, flaking, edema, scabbing and induration at the wart site. Most common application-site reactions were itching (26%), burning (16%) and pain (4%) at the wart site. Application-site pigmentation changes have also been reported.
New warts may develop during treatment. The effect of Aldara cream on the transmission of genital warts is unknown. Aldara cream may weaken condoms and diaphragms. Sexual contact should be avoided while the cream is on the skin.
Aldara is being studied in several other disease areas, including actinic keratosis and basal cell carcinoma.
About HPV & External Genital Warts
Condoms are not always effective in preventing external genital warts because the virus can spread through direct skin-to-skin contact during vaginal, anal or oral sex with an infected partner.
Genital warts can appear as small growths or bumps that may be raised or flat or appear in a cluster with a cauliflower-like appearance. Left untreated, genital warts can grow quite large. Although not all HPV infections will result in genital warts, as many as one million new cases of external genital warts are diagnosed in the U.S. each year and is considered to be one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases.
There is no cure for the virus that causes external genital warts; however, treatment can eradicate external genital warts. Traditional treatments include surgical, laser or chemical techniques performed in the physician's office that involve tissue destruction.
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