Composition:
Each ml solution contains Povidone-Iodine USP 100 mg (10 mg available Iodine).
Indication:
Disinfect livestock and Poultry’s living environment and appliances periodic. It also can be used in disinfection of livestock and poultry’s surgical part (skin mucous, the birth canal etc), surgical instruments, hatching egg and aquaculture. It is effective especially for Aftosa virus, Newcastle diseases, Avian influenza, Mycoplasma spp., State-run Influenza virus, PCV (Porcine circovirus), Eperythrozoon, Haemophilus parasuis, Pox viruses, Rabies and Streptococcus and Gill-rot diseases, Shrimp redbody diseases of aquiculture.
Dosage and Administration:
- Foot and Mouth Disease, Pododermatitis, Interdigital necrobacillosis: 8 ml/litre of water
- Routine disinfection: 3.5 ml/litre of water for fogging
- Trichophytosis: 8 ml/litre of water
- Brucellosis, pox viruses, rabies, tetanus & other bacterial & viral diseases: 7 ml/litre of water
- Newcastle disease, Avian influenza: 12.5 ml/litre of water
- Mycoplasma spp.: 33.5 ml/litre of water
- Hatching egg: 1 ml/2 litre of water
- Fish & Shrimp culture pond: 1- 1.5 litre/acre at 1 meter water depth
- Antiseptic skin cleanser: Apply full strength.
Contraindication:
Don’t use in those animal which are hypersensitive to iodine.
Use in pregnancy and lactation:
Regular use of Povidone-Iodine should be avoided in pregnant or lactating animals as absorbed iodine can cross the placental barrier and can be secreted into milk. Although no adverse effects have been reported from limited use, caution should be recommended and therapeutic benefit must be balanced against possible effects of the absorption of iodine on faetal thyroid function and development.
Adverse Effects:
Povidone- Iodine may produce local skin reactions although it is less irritant than iodine. The application of Povidone-Iodine to large wounds or severe burns may produce systemic adverse effects such as metabolic acidosis, hypernatraemia and impairment of renal function.
Precaution:
Special caution is needed when regular applications to broken skin are made to patients with pre-existing renal insufficiency. This preparation is flammable and caution is advised during surgical procedures involving hot wire cautery or diathermy.
Drug Interaction:
Regular use should be avoided in patients on concurrent lithium therapy. Absorption of iodine from povidone iodine may interfere with thyroid function tests. Contamination with povidone iodine of several types of tests for the detection of occult blood in faeces or blood in urine may produce false-positive results.
Storage:
Store below 15-30°C , protect from light. Do not freeze. Keep medicines out of the reach of children.
Pack Size:
100 ml & 1 Litre
