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Before Taking This Medicine
Before using Retin-A,
- tell your doctor and pharmacist if you are allergic to Retin-A or any other drugs.
- tell your doctor and pharmacist what prescription and nonprescription medicat
ions you are taking, including vitamins.
- tell your doctor if you are pregnant, plan to become pregnant, or are breast-feeding. If you become pregnant while using Retin-A, call your doctor.
- plan to avoid unnecessary or prolonged exposure to sunlight and to wear protective clothing, sunglasses, and sunscreen. Retin-A may make your skin sensitive to sunlight.
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Side Effects
In some animal studies, Retin-A has been shown to cause skin tumors to develop faster when the treated area is exposed to ultraviolet light (sunlight or artificial sunlight from a sunlamp). Other stud
ies have not shown the same result and more studies need to be done. It is not known if Retin-A causes skin tumors to develop faster in humans.
Check with your doctor as soon as possible if a
ny of the following side effects occur:
- Burning feeling or stinging skin (severe); lightening of skin of treated area, unexpected; peeling of skin (severe); redness of skin (severe) ; u
nusual dryness of skin (severe)
- Darkening of treated skin
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How should you take this medication?
The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of Retin-A. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
- Dermatitis, seborrheic or
- Eczema
or
- Sunburn¡XUse of this medicine may cause or increase the irritation associated with these problems
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Significant Interactions:
Tell your health care professional if you are using any other topical prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicine that is to be applied to the same area of the skin. When you are
using topical Retin-A, it is especially important that your health care professional know if you are taking any of the following:
- Acitretin (e.g., Soriatane)
- Etretinate (e.g., Tegi
son)
- Retin-A, oral ¡XMay increase chance of getting severe dryness or redness of skin
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What is this Drug
If you are to apply any form of Retin-A, follow these steps:
- Wash your hands and affected skin area thoroughly with mild, bland soap (not medicated or abrasive soap or soap that dries the
skin) and water. To be sure that your skin is thoroughly dry, wait 20-30 minutes before applying Retin-A.
- Use clean fingertips, a gauze pad, or a cotton swab to apply the medication.
- Use
enough medication to cover the affected area lightly. Do not oversaturate the gauze pad or cotton swab.
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Why is this medication prescribed?
Retin-A is used to treat acne. It works partly by keeping skin pores clear.
One of the Retin-A creams is used to treat fine wrinkles, dark spots, or rough skin on the face caused by damaging
rays of the sun. It works by lightening the skin, replacing older skin with newer skin, and by slowing down the way the body removes skin cells that may have been harmed by the sun. Retin-A works bes
t when used within a skin care program that includes protecting the treated skin from the sun. However, it does not completely or permanently erase these skin problems or greatly improve more obvious
changes in the skin, such as deep wrinkles caused by sun or the natural aging process.
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