Chemist Laboratories Ltd Product List

Chemist Laboratories Ltd manufactures in Bangladesh, and its range on Arogga covers antibiotics, skin preparations, acid and airway medicines — alongside a small veterinary line sold for pets.

What follows groups the range by what each product treats. The generic is given throughout, since that is what a prescription names.

Human and Pet Products in One Range

Worth settling before anything else, because this catalogue holds both.

Several listings are veterinary preparations, and every one of them says (Pet) or for Pet in its registered name. Everything else is a human medicine.

The two are not interchangeable in either direction. Doses are set by species and body weight, some actives cleared for one species are unsafe in another, and a human medicine given to a cat or a dog is one of the commonest causes of avoidable poisoning in pets. Ask a vet before giving an animal anything at all.

Antibiotics

• Excef 200 Capsule 200mg, Excef 400 Capsule 400mg and Excef PFS 50ml Powder for Suspension 100mg/5ml — cefixime, under 3rd Gen Cephalosporins.
• Azithin 500 Tablet 500mg and Azithin PFS 35ml Powder for Suspension 200mg/5ml — azithromycin, under Macrolides.
• Cefuxet Plus 500 Tablet 500mg+125mg — cefuroxime with clavulanic acid.

Three molecules, with a suspension for children in two of them. PFS means powder for suspension, made up with water by the pharmacist or at home as the label directs.

Finish the course, every time

An infection usually feels better within two or three days and is not finished. Stopping early is how it returns, and it is how resistance builds in the household and beyond it.

Do not keep leftover antibiotics for next time, do not take someone else’s, and do not start a course without a diagnosis. Antibiotics do nothing at all for a cold, flu or most sore throats.

Suspensions have a short life once made up

A reconstituted suspension usually keeps for about a week, often refrigerated, and the label says which. Shake it before each dose and measure with the spoon or syringe supplied rather than a kitchen spoon.

Throw away what is left at the end of the course. It will not be usable by the time it is needed again.

Topicare — a Potent Topical Steroid

Topicare Ointment 10g Ointment 0.05%+3% contains clobetasol propionate, and it is the most looked-up product this manufacturer makes. It sits under Combined Topical Corticosteroids.

This is the strongest class of topical steroid

Clobetasol is at the top of the potency scale. Used correctly for a short course on the right condition it is extremely effective; used casually it causes harm that does not fully reverse.

Prolonged use thins the skin permanently, produces stretch marks and visible broken capillaries, and on a large area or under a dressing enough is absorbed to affect the body’s own steroid production.

Where it should not go

Not on the face, not in skin folds such as the groin or armpit, and not on a child, unless a doctor has specifically directed it. Skin in those places is thin and absorbs far more.

Not on an undiagnosed rash either. On a fungal infection a potent steroid makes it spread while masking the appearance, which is how a simple ringworm becomes a difficult one.

Use the smallest amount, for the shortest time

A thin film, once or twice daily, for the number of days the prescription states, and then stop. If the condition has not settled in that time, it needs reviewing rather than continuing.

Melacare — a Prescription Depigmenting Cream

Melacare Cream 30g cream 0.01%+4%+0.05% is a three-ingredient prescription cream — fluocinolone 0.01%, hydroquinone 4% and tretinoin 0.05% — under Hydroquinone within Hyperpigmentation.

What it is for

It is prescribed for melasma — a specific pattern of facial pigmentation — as a short, supervised course. It is not a general skin-lightening cream and it is not a cosmetic product.

All three ingredients are active. Hydroquinone suppresses pigment formation, tretinoin is a retinoid, and fluocinolone is a corticosteroid; the steroid is there to limit irritation from the other two, and it brings the usual steroid cautions with it.

The risk of using it long term

Prolonged or unsupervised hydroquinone use can cause ochronosis — a blue-grey darkening of the treated skin that is very difficult to treat and can be permanent. It is the opposite of the intended result, and it is the reason this is a prescription product used in courses rather than indefinitely.

The steroid component adds the risks described above: skin thinning, broken capillaries and, on facial skin, a rebound that is worse than the starting point.

Sunscreen is not optional with this

Melasma darkens in daylight, and tretinoin makes skin more sun-sensitive. Without daily sun protection the cream is working against the weather, and the pigment returns as soon as it is stopped.

Do not use it in pregnancy or while breastfeeding. Stop and ask a doctor if skin becomes irritated, unusually red, or starts to darken rather than lighten.

Acid and Stomach

• Dex-PPI 30 Capsule 30mg — dexlansoprazole, under PPI within Dyspepsia.
• Exome 20 Capsule capsule 20mg — esomeprazole.

Two proton pump inhibitors. They are taken before food — usually half an hour before the first meal of the day — because they work on acid pumps that are activated by eating.

Not a long-term default

PPIs are effective and are prescribed for defined courses. Taken indefinitely without review they carry recognised issues, and repeat heartburn that keeps needing them is a reason to be assessed rather than to keep buying them.

Heartburn with difficulty swallowing, weight loss, vomiting, black stools or anaemia needs a doctor promptly, not a stronger acid tablet.

Pain, Airways and Cough

• Mygan 200 Tablet 200mg — tolfenamic acid, an anti-inflammatory used for migraine and pain.
• Monofast 10 Tablet 10mg — montelukast, taken to prevent asthma symptoms rather than to relieve an attack.
• Winkof Syrup 100ml Syrup 15mg/5ml — ambroxol, under Cough Expectorants & Mucolytics.

Tolfenamic acid is an NSAID

Take it with or just after food, at the lowest dose that works, and never alongside another anti-inflammatory. Ask first with a history of stomach ulcer or bleeding, kidney or liver disease, heart failure, or asthma made worse by painkillers.

Montelukast prevents, it does not rescue

It is taken regularly, usually in the evening, and does nothing for an attack in progress — that is what a reliever inhaler is for. Never stop a prescribed inhaler because a tablet has been added.

Mood or sleep changes, including unusual agitation or low mood, are recognised with montelukast and are worth reporting rather than tolerating, particularly in children.

When a cough needs a doctor

One lasting more than three weeks, one bringing up blood, or one with fever, breathlessness, chest pain or weight loss. In Bangladesh a long-standing cough is also a reason to be checked for tuberculosis.

Trimcort Injection and Polydin Antiseptic

• Trimcort Injection Injection 40mg/ml — triamcinolone acetonide, an injectable corticosteroid.
• Polydin Solution 20ml Topical Solution 10% w/v — povidone iodine, under Anti-Septics & Skin Disinfectants.

An injection is administered by a healthcare professional, not at home. It is listed here because a prescription may send you to find it, and it is dispensed against one.

Povidone iodine is for intact skin and minor wounds. Keep it out of the eyes, do not use it on large burns or deep wounds, and avoid prolonged use in pregnancy or on a newborn without advice, because iodine is absorbed. A one-litre size is also listed.

Caldolin — Calcium

Caldolin 30’s Tablet 500mg+400IU is calcium with vitamin D3, under Vitamin, Mineral & Nutritional Deficiency.

Swallowing calcium at the same moment as certain antibiotics, or as iron, or as thyroid medication, blocks the absorption of whichever it was taken with. A few hours between them avoids the whole problem. Vitamin D is what allows the calcium to be absorbed, which is why the two are combined.

The Pet Range

• Hematin-S (Pet) Iron Tonic Oral Solution 20ml and Amino Plus (Pet) Oral Solution 20ml
• Selon E Vitamin E + Selenium Oral Solution for Pet 20ml — under Pet Supplement & Nutrition.
• Bloatacure Pet Suspension 20ml

Oral solutions for animals — supplements, and one for bloat.

Dose by species and body weight as the label directs, and treat the species on the label as a hard limit — a preparation cleared for one animal is not automatically safe for another. Anything that looks like a genuine illness needs a vet rather than a tonic.

Match the Generic, Not the Brand Name

Every medicine here is sold under a brand name, and the same molecule is made by many manufacturers under many names.

It is the generic and the strength that have to match the prescription. That also protects against the opposite mistake: two boxes with different brand names can be the same drug, and taking both is a double dose.

The generic is stated on every listing. A prescription is collected wherever the law requires one, and a pharmacist reviews the order before it leaves.

Where Chemist Laboratories Sits on Arogga

This page collects one manufacturer across human and veterinary shelves. Those shelves collect one molecule across manufacturers, which is what a prescription written against a generic needs.

Which strengths exist and which are in stock both move, so the listing settles it.

About Chemist Laboratories Ltd

Chemist Laboratories Ltd manufactures in Bangladesh. Its human range on Arogga is broad rather than deep — three antibiotic molecules, two proton pump inhibitors, a potent topical steroid, a prescription depigmenting cream, an NSAID, an asthma preventer, a mucolytic, an antiseptic and a calcium tablet.

Alongside that sits a small veterinary line of oral solutions, which is unusual on a single manufacturer page and is the reason this one begins by separating the two.

It is searched as Chemist Laboratories Limited, Chemist Pharma and Chemist Pharmaceutical, and in Bangla as কেমিস্ট ল্যাবরেটরিজ লিমিটেড. All of those reach this list.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Can I use Topicare on my face?

Not unless a doctor has specifically directed it. Clobetasol is the strongest class of topical steroid, and facial skin and skin folds absorb far more. Prolonged use thins skin permanently and causes stretch marks and broken capillaries.

2. Can I put a steroid cream on any rash?

No. On a fungal infection a potent steroid makes it spread while masking how it looks, which turns a simple ringworm into a difficult one. An undiagnosed rash needs diagnosing first.

3. Is Melacare a skin-whitening cream?

No. It is a prescription three-ingredient cream for melasma, used as a short supervised course. Prolonged or unsupervised hydroquinone use can cause ochronosis — a blue-grey darkening that is very hard to treat and can be permanent. Do not use it in pregnancy.

4. I feel better — can I stop the antibiotic?

No. Infections usually feel better in two or three days and are not finished. Stopping early is how they return and how resistance builds. Keep no leftovers, take nobody else’s, and begin no course without a diagnosis.

5. How long does a made-up suspension keep?

Usually about a week, often refrigerated — the label says which. Shake before each dose and measure with the spoon or syringe supplied rather than a kitchen spoon. Throw away what is left at the end of the course.

6. When should a PPI be taken?

Usually about half an hour before the first meal of the day, because it acts on acid pumps switched on by eating. PPIs are prescribed for defined courses; heartburn that keeps needing them is a reason to be assessed rather than to keep buying them.

7. Does Monofast help during an asthma attack?

No. Montelukast is taken regularly to prevent symptoms and does nothing for an attack in progress — that is what a reliever inhaler is for. Never stop a prescribed inhaler because a tablet has been added.

8. Can I give a human medicine from this page to my pet?

No. Doses are set by species and body weight, and some actives cleared for one species are unsafe in another. A human medicine given to a cat or dog is a common cause of avoidable poisoning. Ask a vet before giving an animal anything.