It is used on the skin to decrease risk of infection. This medicine is also used as a surgical hand scrub and to wash the skin and surface of the eye before surgery to help prevent infections.
Elemental iodine has a very broad antimicrobial spectrum: bacteria, viruses, bacterial endospores, fungi and protozoas are destroyed through oxidative interaction and direct iodination of biological macromolecules. It is a labile complex of iodine with the polyvinyl pyrrolidone polymer, from which iodine is continually delivered. Only this free iodine has antimicrobial activity.
Elemental iodine has a very broad antimicrobial spectrum: bacteria, viruses, bacterial endospores, fungi and protozoas are destroyed through oxidative interaction and direct iodination of biological macromolecules. It is a labile complex of iodine with the polyvinyl pyrrolidone polymer, from which iodine is continually delivered. Only this free iodine has antimicrobial activity.
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