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Bengay Ultra Strength Pain Relieving Cream - 4oz
Get powerful relief at the site of pain with Ultra Strength Bengay Topical Pain Relief Cream. This non-greasy, ultra strength pain relief cream provides penetrating relief from muscle aches and joint pain. With three pain-relieving ingredients, more than any other Bengay product, this topical analgesic cream provides pain relief from trivial arthritis pains, backache, muscle aches, shared pain, strains, bruises, and muscle sprains. The topical cream is formulated with three powerful pain-relieving ingredients: 4% camphor, 10% menthol, and 30% methyl salicylate. Use only as directed. Adults and children 12 years and older, submit to the affected area no more than three to four times daily. Mas-sage the topical pain-relieving analgesic into skin for penetrating pain relief. Bengay, physician-recommended OTC topical analgesic, comes in a tube for convenient application. Preserve a tube in your gym bag or travel suitcase for pain relief whenever you depend on it.
The Mystery of BenGay
“There’s a crying need to uncover safe painkillers for chronic pain use,” says Susan Fleetwood-Walker, a neuroscientist at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and co-author of the study. “It’s extremely difficult to handle – and we never expected this cooling consequence would have this massive effect that it does.”
Cooling remedies have been used for thousands of years. For instance, mint oil, which contains the cooling agent menthol, was a traditional Chinese salve. Products like BenGay are modern-day versions that act to cool irritation and inflammation. But such topical creams are more effective for acute pain – that is, pain resulting directly from tissue damage, such as a burn or pulled muscle. It’s much trickier to treat neuropathic, or nerve-related, pain, because the injured nerves themselves seem to generate pain signals without an external influence. Research into this type of chronic, nerve-related pain has focused on cutting off activation of pain neurons before signals reach the brain.
Much of the mystery of how this pain originates lies in the intri
BENGAY ® ULTRA STRENGTH NON-GREASY CREAM
camphor (synthetic), menthol, unspecified form, and methyl salicylate cream
| Product Information | |||
| Product Type | HUMAN OTC DRUG | Item Code (Source) | NDC |
| Route of Administration | TOPICAL | ||
| Active Ingredient/Active Moiety | ||
| Ingredient Name | Basis of Strength | Strength |
|---|---|---|
| CAMPHOR (SYNTHETIC) (UNII: 5TJD82A1ET) (CAMPHOR (SYNTHETIC) - UNII:5TJD82A1ET) | CAMPHOR (SYNTHETIC) | 40 mg in 1 g |
| MENTHOL, UNSPECIFIED FORM (UNII: L7T10EIP3A) (MENTHOL, UNSPECIFIED Create - UNII:L7T10EIP3A) | MENTHOL, UNSPECIFIED FORM | mg in 1 g |
| METHYL SALICYLATE (UNII: LAV5UY) (SALICYLIC ACID - UNII:OPZ4LPZ) | METHYL SALICYLATE | mg in 1 g |
| Inactive Ingredients | |
| Ingredient Name | Strength |
|---|---|
| CARBOMER HOMOPOLYMER, UNSPECIFIED TYPE (UNII: 0A5MMFC) | |
| EDETATE DISODIUM ANHYDROUS (UNII: 8NLQ36F6MM) | |
| GLYCERYL STEARATE SE (UNII: FCZ5MHI) | |
| LANOLIN (UNII: 7EV65EAW6H) | |
| POLYSORBATE 80 (UNII: 6OZP39ZG8H) | |
| POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE (UNII: WZH3C48M4T) | |
STEARIC ACID (UNII: 4ELVDoes Bengay help with arthritis pain?A person can utilize analgesic creams such as Bengay to temporarily relieve minor aches and pains. A found that applying topical analgesics containing menthol, one of the active ingredients in Bengay, improves skin blood flow. Menthol is a counter-irritant, which nociceptors on the skin before desensitizing them. The cooling or warming sensation of counter-irritants distracts a person from minor pain. Menthol also helps open or dilate blood vessels to improve blood flow. Increasing blood flow muscles to receive oxygen and nutrients more easily, which may help ease pain. In a , participants could perceive the cooling sensation of menthol 5–60 minutes after applying it to their skin. The researchers reported that skin blood vessels dilated for 15–45 minutes after application before returning to normal after 60 minutes. Find more arthritis resources here. Various topical products may help ease arthritis pain. They may be more effective for some people than others, and a person may need to try a few before finding one that helps. The A | |