Can Iodine be drunk

Povidone-iodine is a medicine that can effectively reduce inflammation and kill bacteria. If you accidentally get injured in your daily life, you can apply povidone-iodine to the wound. This will help the wound heal quickly and avoid bacterial infection. However, you must not drink povidone-iodine, otherwise it will cause considerable damage to your body.

Iodine tincture is an amorphous combination of elemental iodine and polyvinylpyrrolidone (Povidone). Polyvinyl pyrrolidone can dissolve and disperse 9% to 12% of iodine, which appears as a purple-black liquid. However, medical iodine tincture usually has a lower concentration (1% or less) and is light brown in color.

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.

The common concentration of medical iodine tincture is 1%, which can be directly applied for skin disinfection.

Diluted twice, it can be used as a mouthwash for stomatitis;

2% iodine is used to disinfect hands and other parts of the skin during surgery;

0.5% iodine tincture is used for flushing treatment of vaginitis.

Iodine is very effective in disinfecting common injuries such as burns, frostbite, knife wounds, abrasions, and bruises. Because iodine

Compared with alcohol, the irritation and pain caused by iodine tincture is milder, it is easier for patients to accept, it is widely used and has definite effects. It 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 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.