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ZIANA Gel combines two active ingredients in one effective treatment.
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Please Be Sure To Read The Important Safety Information Below
How to use ZIANA Gel
For best results, follow these guidelines as instructed by your doctor:
At bedtime:
Wash your face gently with mild soap and warm water.
DO NOT use astringents, medicated soaps or alcohol-based cleansers. Dry your skin by gently blotting with a towel.
Use only a pea-size amount of ZIANA Gel for your entire face.
Apply ZIANA Gel to your fingertip and gently smooth it into your skin. Do not get ZIANA Gel in your eyes, mouth, lips, corners of nose, or open wounds.
In the morning:
Apply a suncreen and reapply during the day as needed.
Caution. Failure to follow these guidelines can irritate your skin and worsen your acne condition:
DO NOT apply ZIANA Gel more than once a day.
DO NOT use more ZIANA Gel than prescribed by your doctor.
DO NOT wash your face more than 2 to 3 times a day.
DO NOT pick, squeeze or spot-treat blemishes.
AVOID soaps, cosmetics and other skin products that contain alcohol, astringents, spices, lime, or drying agents.
AVOID excessive exposure to the sun, cold, and wind.
AVOID the use of sunlamps and tanning booths.
Use ZIANA Gel exactly as prescribed. It may take some time for you to see improvement of your acne with ZIANA Gel. It is important that you continue using ZIANA Gel for the entire period prescribed by your doctor.
If you don’t have much peeling, stinging, or burning from ZIANA Gel, don’t worry, it is still working. ZIANA Gel can continue to improve your acne week after week—up to 12 weeks.
Do not use ZIANA Gel if you have:
Crohn’s Disease
Ulcerative Colitis
Developed colitis with past antibiotic use
Tell your doctor:
If you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant. It is not known if ZIANA Gel may harm your unborn baby.
If you are breastfeeding. ZIANA Gel may pass through your milk and may harm your baby.
About all the medicines and skin products you use. ZIANA Gel should not be used with erythromycin-containing products. Avoid medicated or abrasive soaps and cleansers, soaps and cosmetics that have a strong drying effect, and skin products that contain alcohol, astringents, spices or lime. These products may cause increased skin irritation if used with ZIANA Gel.
What are the possible side effects with ZIANA Gel?
Skin irritation.
ZIANA Gel may cause skin irritation such as dryness, redness, peeling, burning, or stinging. If your skin becomes very red, swollen, blistered, or crusted, stop using ZIANA Gel and call your doctor.
Change in skin color.
ZIANA Gel may cause a temporary skin color change (lighter or darker).
Colitis.
This occurs rarely. If you develop severe watery diarrhea, or bloody diarrhea, stop using ZIANA Gel and call your doctor.
Pay no more than $20 for your
60-gram tube of ZIANA Gel.
This card provides eligible patients with savings on up to 3 prescription fills of ZIANA Gel (60-gram tube only).
See Eligibility Criteria
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Click here for instructions on how to use ZIANA Gel.
Talk to your dermatologist about your acne and whether treatment is right for you. To find a dermatologist in your area, click here.