Safe in patients with no history of blood dyscrasia
- 12 August 1995
- Vol. 311 (7002) , 450
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.311.7002.450a
Abstract
* EDITOR,--Chloramphenicol, in drop or ointment form, is one of the most reliable ophthalmic preparations in existence. It has a broad spectrum of activity, is well absorbed by the ocular tissues, rarely provokes resistance in micro-organisms or damages the surface of the eye, and is both cheap and widely available. The evidence that, when delivered to the eye, it can cause aplastic anaemia remains unsubstantiated. We are therefore surprised that Marie Doona and J Bernard Walsh conclude, in the absence of new …Keywords
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