Whether prompt, please, there is a difference between valtreksom and atsikloviro...

[Marina]

Whether prompt, please, there is a difference between valtreksom and atsiklovirom?

[Aptekaonline]

Hello, Marina. These are the medicinal preparations concerning one group - antiviral agents, but a different chemical compound. Valtreks it is applied to treatment of surrounding herpes, infections of a skin and the mucosas caused or called by a virus of simple herpes (including for the first time the revealed and relapsing genital herpes), for prophylaxis of relapse of simple herpes; for prophylaxis tsitomegalovirusnoj infections on a background of an immunodeficiency (at VICH-infections, at transplantation of organs and an osteal brain, at a chemotherapy of oncologic diseases, etc.). Atsiklovir in addition to these indications it is applied at a chicken pox and simple gerpeticheskom a keratitis. A choice of the necessary preparation for your attending physician. Yours faithfully, Elena Ivanovna.