At a time when antibiotic resistance is growing and some bacterial infections of the skin are getting harder to treat, the idea of the antiseptic is still somewhat attractive. Antiseptics are substances that generally have a physical-chemical action against microbes – usually directed towards the cell wall or its associated proteins. For some skin infections, antiseptics are potentially appropriate as they have no little systemic side-effects and have a rapid action against m

Topical Antifungal Miconazole – Beware of Warfarin interactions In June this year, a drug update notification was issued on the UK Government website. Miconazole will be familiar to podiatrists as a topical anti-fungal agent which is sold as the brand “Daktarin®” and with a topical corticosteroid “Dakacort®”. When we think about topical agents, we often assume that they are safe to use because of their limited systemic interactions with other drugs that a patient maybe taking