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Zovirax cream is well tolerated and has limited side effects

Zovirax cream contains the active ingredient aciclovir, which is an antiviral medicine. It is used to treat skin infections with the herpes simplex virus, for example cold sores and genital herpes (caused by herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2).

Zovirax cream side effects facts:

- Zovirax Cream is generally well tolerated for the treatment of HSV infections of the lips and face.
- An extensive database has revealed that adverse reactions are essentially limited to dryness or flaking of the skin or lips and other occasional application-site events.
- Although approximately 10% of patients in clinical trials reported adverse events, no more than 5% were considered possibly related to study drug. Of these latter events, only 2% were reported as dryness or flaking of the skin and 1% were local application-site reactions.
- More than 200 million patient exposures to Zovirax Cream have been estimated to have occurred with a very low reported spontaneous adverse event rate.

The most common adverse event reported is flaking skin with less frequent reports of dry skin, burning or stinging. All these events were considered minor and no patient stopped therapy because of adverse events.

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