PROPHYLAXIS AGAINST BLENNORRHOEA NEONATORUM IN DENMARK

Prophylaxis of Ophthalmia Neonatorum

(1) Purulent conjunctivitis affecting newborn babies is not invariably due to the gonococcus but may be caused by streptococci, staphylococci, or even B. coli and B. proteus. (2) Blindness from this cause in England has been reduced from approximately 25 per cent. of all blind children in 1920 to 9 per cent. in 1940. (3) This improvement began when the use of the Crede method of prophylaxis wit...

The Prophylaxis of Ophthalmia Neonatorum

Alfred Graefe.?"Ueber caustische und antiseptische Behandlung der Conjunctivalentziindungen mit besonderer Beriicksichtigung der Blenorrhcea Neonatorum," in Volkmanris Sammlung Klinischer Vortrcege, No. 192, 1881. Abegg.?" Zur Yerlilitung der Augenentziindung Neugeborener," in Archiv fur Gyncekologie, xvii. 502, 1881. Olshausen.?" Zur Prophylaxe der Conjunctivalblenorrhoea Neugeborener," in Cen...

New aspects in prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum (Credé prophylaxis).

Povidone-iodine prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum.

O phthalmologists practising in the developed world at the beginning of the 21st century may be surprised to learn that visual loss from ophthalmia neonatorum was once a major public health problem. In England in the mid-1800s, there was a hospital devoted solely to the lavage of infants with gonococcal ophthalmia. Fortunately, the work of Crede, who developed prophylaxis with 2% silver nitrate...

A controlled trial of povidone-iodine as prophylaxis against ophthalmia neonatorum.

BACKGROUND Neonatal conjunctivitis (ophthalmia neonatorum) continues to cause blindness because the agents used prophylactically to prevent this condition are not completely effective and are not widely available in many parts of the world. Povidone-iodine ophthalmic solution is an effective antibacterial agent with broad antibacterial and antiviral activity to which no bacteria are known to be...