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Amid experimental results showing that povidone-iodine, the red drug, is effective in sterilizing the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19), health authorities emphasized that the drug should not be ingested or drunk.
According to the Ministry of Food and Pharmaceutical Safety on the 11th, povidone iodine is an important component of drugs that act as sterilization and disinfection for external use, and it is approved as general drugs such as external preparations, throat sprays and mouth gargles. When used, it should be used only in areas marked for drug use, and should not be used for ‘oral use’ such as eating or drinking.
For example, external preparations should be used only to sterilize and disinfect wounds on the skin and surgical sites. Gargles are used to sterilize and disinfect the oral cavity and to prevent pharyngeal infections and laryngitis, but after brushing your teeth with a solution diluted 15 to 30 times, you should spit out without swallowing. The throat spray is licensed for use in oral disinfection, pharyngitis, laryngitis, stomatitis, disinfection after removal and oral surgery, and bad breath.
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety was suspicious of the over-interpretation of the effect of povidone iodine in suppressing the recently announced Corona 19 virus in Korea. This study is the result of a laboratory-tested in vitro cell experiment and is because it does not confirm the clinical effect in humans. Currently, clinical trials are underway in the United States and Canada on whether povidone iodine spray can prevent Corona 19, but the clinical effect has not been clearly confirmed as the results have not yet been published.
Also, when using povidone-iodine for a long period, care should be taken as iodine-induced thyroid malfunction can occur. The Ministry of Food and Pharmaceutical Safety advises not to use it in patients with hypothyroidism, patients with kidney failure, patients with hypersensitivity to iodine, newborns and infants under 6 months.
In particular, he repeatedly stressed that you should not eat because it can cause epigastric pain, gastroenteritis, vomiting, diarrhea, tachycardia and headache when taking large amounts.
/ Reporter Joowon Lee [email protected]
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