Percutaneous absorption of chlorhexidine in neonatal cord care.
Open Access
- 1 November 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 56 (11) , 878-880
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.56.11.878
Abstract
The percutaneous absorption of chlorhexidine during its routine use in topical antiseptic preparations used in umbilical cord care was investigated by determining plasma chlorhexidine concentrations at ages 5 and 9 days. These showed that percutaneous absorption of chlorhexidine occurred in preterm neonates treated with a 1% solution of chlorhexidine in ethanol, but not in term infants similarly treated, or in preterm infants treated only with a dusting powder containing 1% chlorhexidine and 3% zinc oxide.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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