What are the symptoms of iodine allergy?

Povidone-iodine is a relatively common anti-inflammatory drug for the skin and is a common household medicine. For example, when skin damage or skin inflammation and allergies occur, you can use povidone-iodine to wipe the skin. It has a good anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effect. Of course, for some people, they may have an allergic constitution. At this time, when using povidone-iodine, allergies may occur. For such people, try not to use povidone-iodine.

How to use iodine tincture: The common concentration of medical iodine tincture is 1%, which can be directly applied for skin disinfection treatment; diluted twice and can be used for gargling with stomatitis; 2% iodine tincture is used for disinfection of hands and other parts of the skin during surgery; 0.5% iodine tincture is used for flushing treatment of vaginitis

Safe use

Iodine is an external medication and is not for oral administration. Iodine tincture dilute solution is low in toxicity and non-corrosive. However, dilute solutions are unstable and need to be prepared before use. Avoid contact with silver, aluminum and divalent alloys because they are corrosive to metals. It is forbidden to use it with antagonistic drugs such as mercurochrome. The iodine stock solution should be stored at room temperature away from light.

Feature Application

Iodine is very effective in disinfecting common injuries such as burns, frostbite, knife wounds, abrasions, and bruises. Compared with alcohol, iodine causes less irritation and pain, is easily accepted by patients, has a wide range of uses and definite effects, and has basically replaced skin and mucous membrane disinfectants such as alcohol, mercurochrome, iodine, and gentian violet. In addition, low-concentration iodine tincture is a light brown solution that is not easy to stain clothing. Although iodine tincture has been widely used in hospitals, non-medical staff's understanding of iodine tincture is not as good as that of traditional disinfectants such as mercurochrome, iodine tincture, and gentian violet.

Iodine tincture has a broad-spectrum bactericidal effect and can kill bacterial vegetative bodies, fungi, protozoa and some viruses. It is used as a bactericidal disinfectant in medicine. It can be used to disinfect the skin and mucous membranes, treat burns, and treat trichomoniasis, candidal vaginitis, and fungal skin infections. It can also be used for pre-operative and other skin disinfection, skin disinfection of various injection sites, instrument immersion disinfection, and pre-vaginal surgery disinfection.