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In 1998, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declared that Mercurochrome, generically known as merbromin, was "not generally recognized as safe and effective" as an over-the-counter antiseptic and forbade its sale across state lines.
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9 It was probably a good idea to ban this stuff. Even though it may not cause acute mercury poisoning, heavy metals can have insidious long term effects which are difficult to detect. For example, they can slowly cause decline in brain func...
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Mercurochrome was found to be the most efficacious in terms of healing, relief from symptoms of the disease and production of negative fungal cultures. Mercurochrome is recommended as a safe and economical drug for the topical treatment of otomycosis in developing countries like Nigeria...
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In the 1950s, mercurochrome was in every household medicine cabinet. If there wasn’t a vial of mercurochrome, there was merthiolate. When a child fell and got a cut or scrape, out came the mercurochrome in a little bottle with a glass tube attached to the inside of the cap.
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CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS Mercurochrome and gentian violet, in freshly prepared solutions, were employed in doses of from 5 to 7 rug. per kilogram of body weight in three cases of septicemia and in two cases of local gonococcal infections.
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Medical Encyclopdia article about Mercurochrome ... A Medical Article provided by The University of Maryland Medical System ... A resource with information on over 10,000 medical topics including: Mercurochrome...
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Reptile & Amphibians ... You think that I can use mercurochrome to disinfect the mouth? I thought that this product killed a lot of cells. ... Re: Mercurochrome is safe for animal? John Clare 02/18/00 (1)
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"The industry has ... gone out of its way to make sure that a child has a safe place to play," he said. ... and when I skinned my knee, my mother put Mercurochrome, what we called monkey blood, on it and sent me on my way," Mr. Hes said. "You're going to get to a point where you take away everything, and there's nothing left.
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Mercurochrome, Merbromine, Sodium mercurescein, Asceptichrome, ... The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) removed it from the "mostly recognized as safe" and into the 'untested' classification to effectively halt its distribution in the United States in 1998 over fears of potential mercury poisoning.
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