Adult Dosing

Prepping lashes and lid margins

• Apply one or more applicators per lid; repeat once

Prepping lids, brow

• Repeat prepping 3x

• Irrigate the cornea, conjunctiva and palpebral fornices with sterile ophthalmic solution using a sterile bulb syringe during separation of lids
• After 2 mins use sterile saline solution in a bulb to flush the residual solution from the cornea, conjunctiva, and the palpebral fornices

Pediatric Dosing

• Safety and effectiveness in pediatric patients have not been established

[Outline]

• Adult Dosing
• Pediatric Dosing

• For prepping of the periocular region (lids, brow, and cheek) and irrigation of the ocular surface (cornea, conjunctiva, and palpebral fornices)

• Hypersensitivity to any of the ingredients of the products

• N/A

Renal Dose Adjustment

• Renal impairment: Dose adjustments not defined

Hepatic Dose Adjustment

• Hepatic impairment: Dose adjustments not defined

• For external use only. Not for intraocular injection or irrigation

Cautions: Use cautiously in

• Thyroid disorders

Pregnancy Category:C

Breastfeeding: Use of povidone-iodine in the mother near term and during breastfeeding increases iodine levels in the breastmilk thus causing transient hypothyroidism in breastfed infants, especially in geographic areas that are iodine deficient. Although povidone-iodine is minimally absorbed through intact adult skin, minimize the exposure of nursing mothers to povidone-iodine by using lower concentrations of povidone-iodine, applying it to the smallest possible surface areas, shortening contact time, and avoiding repeated applications. This information is based upon LactMed database (available at http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT last accessed 15 September 2011). According to manufacturer a decision should be made for discontinuing nursing or discontinue the drug taking into account the importance of the drug to the mother.

• HYPERSENSITIVITY: Local sensitivity reactions

• Antiseptic; has broad spectrum bactericidal activity against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria and also fungicidal, protozoacidal, cysticidal, virucidal, and some sporicidal activity
• Minimal systemic absorption
• Metabolism: Unknown
• Renally excreted
• Half-life: Unknown

US Trade Name(s)

• Betadine

US Availability

Betadine

• SOLN: 5%

Canadian Trade Name(s)

• N/A

Canadian Availability

• N/A

UK Trade Name(s)

• N/A

UK Availability

• N/A

Australian Trade Name(s)

• N/A

Australian Availability

• N/A

[Outline]

Antimicrobials

Antiseptics

Ophthalmic

Antiseptics