Therapeutic Treatment

Topical immunosuppressants

(calcineurine inhibitors)

• Tacrolimus (Protopic, Astellas)

   - Ointments with 0.1% and 0.03%

   - Exceptional medicine with limited prescription, indicated from ages 2 and up

 

• Pimecrolimus (Elidel, Novartis)

   - Cream with 1% (not sold in France)

   - Proven efficacy

   - Good short and mid-term safety

   - Unknown for the long term

      • We can probably be optimistic

      • But the drug agencies (the FDA in 2005) recommend caution