Dermovate 0.05% Ointment 25g/30g

Dermovate contains the active substance clobetasol propionate which belongs to a group of medicines called corticosteroids. It helps to reduce redness, swelling and irritation of the skin. (These should not be confused with “anabolic” steroids misused by some body builders and athletes and taken as tablets or injections).

Dermovate is used to help reduce the redness and itchiness of certain skin problems in adults, the elderly and children over the age of 1 year.

These skin problems include:

• Frequently relapsing eczema
• Psoriasis (thickened patches of inflamed, red skin, often covered by silvery scales), excluding widespread plaque psoriasis
• Lichen planus (a skin disease that causes itchy, reddish-purple, flat-topped bumps on the wrists, forearms, or lower legs)
• Discoid lupus erythematosus (a disease of the skin most often affecting the face, ears and scalp causing scarring and increased sensitivity of the affected skin to sunlight)
• Conditions that have not responded to milder steroid creams or ointments.

For children over the age of 1 year, Dermovate is used for dermatitis that has not responded to milder steroid creams or ointments.