Cipro and SSD AF Topical

• Generic Name: ciprofloxacin
• Dosage Forms: tablet, film coated
• Other Brand Names: Cipro, Cipro XR, Proquin XR, Cipro IV

Cipro (ciprofloxacin) is a fluoroquinolone (flor-o-KWIN-o-lone) antibiotic that fights bacteria in the body. Ciprofloxacin is used to treat different types of bacterial infections.

Cipro is also used to treat people who have been exposed to anthrax or certain types of plague.

Fluoroquinolone antibiotics can cause serious or disabling side effects that may not be reversible.

Cipro should be used only for infections that cannot be treated with a safer antibiotic.

• Generic Name: silver sulfadiazine topical
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Silvadene, SSD, Thermazene, SSD AF

Silver sulfadiazine cream is used to prevent and treat wound infections in patients with second- and third-degree burns. Patients with severe burns or burns over a large area of the body must be treated in a hospital.

Silver sulfadiazine is an antibiotic. It works by killing the bacteria or preventing its growth.

This medicine is available only with your doctor's prescription.