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The use of metronidazole gel to control the smell of malodorous lesions

Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge

M. Allwood

Tillotts Laboratories, Porters Wood, St Albans

RA Oakes

Tillotts Laboratories, Porters Wood, St Albans

Sixty-eight patients with malodorous lesions were treated with a topical 0.8% metronidazole gel for periods varying from a few days to 15 months. The gel completely controlled the foul smell of 34 (50%) lesions; had a reasonable effect on 31 (46%) and no effect on three. One patient with an infected leg ulcer was reported to have a skin irritation after seven days treatment with the gel. No other possible adverse events were reported.

Key Words: anaerobic bacteria • metronidazole • neoplasms • odour (odors) • skin ulcer • smell

Palliative Medicine, Vol. 3, No. 4, 303-305 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/026921638900300412


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