The World Health Organization's ATC classification organizes medical drugs based on therapeutic properties, chemical composition, and anatomy. It helps make essential medicines readily available globally and is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry.
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| P03AX01 | Benzyl benzoate | |
| P03AX02 | Copper oleinate | |
| P03AX03 | Malathion | |
| P03AX04 | Quassia | |
| P03AX05 | Dimeticone | |
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Benzyl alcohol inhibits lice from closing their respiratory spiracles, allowing the vehicle to obstruct the spiracles and causing the lice to asphyxiate. |
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Benzyl benzoate is a benzoate ester obtained by the formal condensation of benzoic acid with benzyl alcohol. Benzyl benzoate is one of the older preparations used to treat scabies. Scabies is a skin infection caused by the mite sarcoptes scabiei. Benzyl benzoate is lethal to this mite and so is useful in the treatment of scabies. It is also used to treat lice infestation of the head and body. Benzyl benzoate is not the treatment of choice for scabies due to its irritant properties. |
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Dimeticone is used in many pharmaceutical and cosmetic preparations. A 4% concentration has been found to affect the physico-physiological activity of lice. |
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| Document | Type | Information Source | |
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| DERBAC M Cutaneous emulsion | MPI, EU: SmPC | Health Products Regulatory Authority (IE) | |
| EURAX Cream | MPI, EU: SmPC | Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (GB) | |
| NYDA Topical solution | MPI, CA: SPM | Health Products and Food Branch (CA) |