Background: Today, people use plants to treat various types of diseases and improve human health. One the medicinal is Betadine plant (Jatropha multifida L.). have many functions, especially sap, leaves, fruit seeds. The compound contents in stem which efficacious as an antimicrobial, are saponins, tannins, flavonoids labaditin. bacteria that...

Acanthamoeba keratitis is a severe ocular infection secondary to accidental macro- or microscopic trauma of the cornea. Starting in 1985, a dramatic increase of this infection was recorded along with the spread of contact lens use. This protozoal disease is difficult to treat because of the scarcity of efficacious topical and systemic drugs. We evaluated the in vitro effectiveness of povidone-i...

INTRODUCTION Coliform pyosalpinx is a rare entity. We report a case that occurred three months after appendicectomy for gangrenous appendicitis. There follows a literature review on best practice for the treatment of pyosalpinx. CASE PRESENTATION A seventeen year old girl presented with an acute abdomen three months after an appendicectomy for gangrenous appendicitis. Intraoperative findings ...

The effects of copper and zinc ions on the rate of killing of Gram-negative bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus and fungal yeast Candida albicans by antiseptic agents cetylpyridinium chloride and povidone-iodine (Betadine) were investigated. In the 48 test cases copper and zinc ions clearly potentiated the antiseptic agents in 28 (58.3%) cases and exh...

Various commonly used antiseptics were tested against three strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) at stock strength and in serial 10-fold dilutions. The stock solutions of 4% chlorhexidine gluconate-alcohol (Hibiclens), 1% p-chloro-m-xylenol (Acute-Kare), and 3% hexachlorophene (Phisohex) produced 2-log reductions of MRSA after a 15-s exposure, but even after 240 s, thes...

The incidence of surgical site infection (SSI) varies from 0.7 to 11.9 % after spinal surgical procedures [1-4]. Pre-incisional skin preparation with an antiseptic solution is crucial in preventing SSI. ChloraPrep® (2% chlorhexidine and 70% isopropyl alcohol; CareFusion, Inc., Leawood, KS) and DuraPrepTM (iodine-povacrylex and isopropyl alcohol; Surgical Solution, 3M Health Care, St. Paul, MN) ...

Methods: Fat is harvested using disposable Caraway harvest cannula; processed with a bi-laminar filtration system and injected with disposable 18 gauge cannula. Intravenous clindamycin is given 1 hour before surgery and the intraoral mucosa at the site of injection is re-prepped with betadine. The upper lip is retracted and approximately 1–1.5 cm above and medial to the Stensen’s duct, the inje...