This medicine helps to reduce the redness of the skin and the number of pimples, usually found on the face, in patients with rosacea. In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. Also tell your health care professional if you are allergic to any other substances, such as preservatives or dyes. Topical metronidazole has not been studied in pregnant women.
Topical metronidazole is absorbed into the mother's body only in small amounts.
The small amounts of this medicine that are absorbed are unlikely to cause serious problems in nursing babies. Therefore, topical metronidazole is not generally used in children. Therefore, it may not be known whether they work exactly the same way they do in younger adults or if they cause different side effects or problems in older people. There is no specific information comparing use of topical metronidazole in the elderly with use in other age groups. Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur.