Calamine lotion
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Calamine, also known as calamine lotion, is a medication made from a combination of powdered zinc oxide and 0.5% ferric oxide (Fe2O3) that is used to treat mild itching. It benefits sunburn, insect bites, allergenic irritation, and other mild skin conditions, and may also help dry out secretions resulting from skin irritation. Its name comes from calamine, a historic name for the zinc ores smithsonite and hemimorphite.
Key facts
- Drug.type
- combo
- Drug.image
- Calamine lotion.png
- Drug.alt
- A puddle of a thin pink lotion, next to a pink plastic bottle
- Drug.caption
- A puddle of calamine lotion next to a pink plastic bottle
- Drug.component1
- zinc oxide
- Drug.class1
- astringent
- Drug.component2
- ferric oxide
- Drug.class2
- antipruritic
- Drug.DailyMedID
- Calamine
- Drug.routes_of_administration
- Topical
- Drug.ATC_prefix
- D02
- Drug.ATC_suffix
- AB
- Drug.legal_US
- OTC
- Drug.CAS_number
- 8011-96-9
- Drug.PubChem
- 23083748
- Drug.ChemSpiderID
- 16112062
- Drug.KEGG
- D03284
- Drug.ChEMBL
- 3989426
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- essential medicine
- Subclass of
- lotion
- Material used
- Mill scale
- Image
- Calamine lotion.png
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Calamine, also known as calamine lotion, is a medication made from a combination of powdered zinc oxide and 0.5% ferric oxide (Fe2O3) that is used to treat mild itching. It benefits sunburn, insect bites, allergenic irritation, and other mild skin conditions, and may also help dry out secretions resulting from skin irritation. Its name comes from calamine, a historic name for the zinc ores smithsonite and hemimorphite.
Calamine is applied to the skin as a cream or lotion. The lotion has been in use since 1500 BC and is now produced with additional ingredients such as phenol and calcium hydroxide.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Calamine lotion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.