How to properly dilute a furatsilin tablet for washing the eyes of children

General information about the drug

Furacilin is a well-known antimicrobial drug (international name - nitrofural). The medicine penetrates into the microbial cell and inhibits its division. Active against many known gram-positive and gram-negative microorganisms, including streptococci, staphylococci, and E. coli.

In newborns and children in the first year of life, furatsilin is often used to wash the eyes. The drug is recognized as completely safe for babies and can be used from birth. Furacilin effectively fights most known pathogens of conjunctivitis in children. Drug resistance to the drug develops quite rarely.

Contraindications for the use of furatsilin:

• allergic reaction;
• dermatitis around the eyes.

In rare cases, when using the drug, an allergic reaction in the form of swelling and redness of the eyes is observed. In this case, you should stop using furatsilin and consult a doctor.

Description of the drug and release form

Furacilin is an antimicrobial drug of complex action, active against many pathogenic fungi and bacteria, which most often cause diseases of the visual organs. This medicine is sold without a prescription, is very cheap, and therefore is in great demand among the population.

This drug has several forms of release. Furacilin is sold in the form of tablets, solution, ointment, drops and medicinal aerosols. The active substance of the drug is nitrofural. The attending physician determines which form of the drug to use in a particular case.

Furacilin solution is used to treat conjunctivitis and blepharitis. The drug also helps well with eye injuries of various types. The composition is indispensable before operations and in the postoperative period. This medicine can be used not only to treat adults, but also children of different ages.

Furacilin solution can be bought ready-made at the pharmacy or prepared independently. To do this, crush two tablets with a rolling pin without removing them from the blister, pour them into a glass and add a glass of boiling water. After this, the solution is mixed well until the grains of the medicine are completely dissolved.

The resulting solution is used to wash the eyes several times a day. Such procedures must be carried out before using eye drops and ointments.

Application diagram

Furacilin can be used to wash a child's eyes from a very early age. The drug is available in yellow or yellowish-green tablets.

To prepare the solution, you must follow the instructions.

1. Prepare warm boiled water (100 ml).
2. Crush 1 tablet of furatsilin to a fine powder.
3. Pour the resulting powder into a glass (use only clean dishes).
4. Add pre-prepared water to the powder.
5. Stir the resulting mixture until the tablet is completely dissolved.
6. Leave the solution in a cool, dark place for 1 hour.

To prepare the solution, use water with a temperature no higher than 37 °C.

Furacilin for newborns should be used within 24 hours. It is allowed to store the prepared solution in a refrigerator or a cool, dry room with a temperature not exceeding 25 °C. In this case, the solution can be used within 14 days.

Immediately before use, furatsilin must be filtered and cleared of impurities. To do this, pass the solution through clean gauze folded in three layers. After filtering, the solution should be clean, homogeneous, without pieces of undissolved tablets. The drug in which impurities remain cannot be used.

How to prepare a solution of furatsilin

Furacilin solution is used externally for the following purposes:

• eye wash;
• rinsing;
• compresses;
• disinfection of wounds.

Before you start diluting furatsilin, your hands should be washed thoroughly with soap. Then you need to take a clean dish and pour boiling water over it. When diluting furatsilin, it is necessary to comply with the dosage of the drug.

There are 2 ways to dilute furatsilin:

• Pour one furatsilin tablet into 100 ml of boiled hot water and leave until completely dissolved. The rate of dissolution directly depends on the temperature of the water. If the solvent is cold, the tablet will dissolve later, and in warm water it will dissolve faster.
• You can take one tablet of furatsilin and grind it to a powder. Then the powder is poured with warm water and mixed thoroughly. The resulting solution should be filtered to get rid of undissolved particles of the drug.

The tablet dissolved at home is not stored for a long time. In order to rinse your eyes next time, you will need to prepare a fresh solution.

Eye wash

How to wash a child's eyes? The procedure is quite simple and does not require any special skills. It is only important to act very carefully so as not to damage the delicate skin around the eyes.

1. Wash your hands with soap.
2. Heat the pre-diluted solution to 36-37 °C.
3. Prepare a swab: a sterile bandage folded in several layers, a cotton pad or cotton wool.
4. Soak the swab in the furatsilin solution. Make sure that the solution does not drain from the swab.
5. Gently pull back the lower eyelid and run the swab over the mucous membrane of the eye.
6. Treat the eye from the outer corner to the inner (towards the nose). This will prevent infection from spreading to healthy areas of the eye.
7. When processing, do not press on the eye, do not rub or try to penetrate too deeply. Careless actions can lead to injury to the conjunctiva and cornea.
8. Use different swabs to clean the left and right eyes.

Both eyes should be treated with furatsilin, even if the infection is localized only on one side. The inflammatory process quickly passes from one eye to the other, so do not miss the moment.

The child should wash his eyes 2-4 times a day. If necessary, your doctor may recommend more frequent use of the drug. Before using furatsilin, you must consult a pediatrician or ophthalmologist.

The course of treatment with furatsilin is 5-7 days. If during this time the therapy does not bring the desired result, you should consult a doctor. Perhaps the inflammatory process was not caused by an infection, but by an allergic eye infection. In rare cases, pathogens develop resistance to nitrofural. In any of these situations, you will have to replace furatsilin with a more effective remedy.

Often a young mother is recommended to use Furacilin for newborns. This remedy has been used for many years for treating mucous and skin surfaces during suppuration. Furacilin solution is an ideal substance for washing a child’s eyes, which often get dirty and cause inflammation.

• 1 What is a substance?
• 2 When should it be used?
• 3 Instructions for use 3.1 How to prepare the solution?
• 3.2 Washing procedure

What is a substance?

You cannot wash your baby’s eyes with Furacilin Avexima in its pure form. Furacilin solution is an antiseptic substance used for local wiping. The effect of the product is to destroy a number of bacteria:

• coli;
• dysentery;
• staphylococcus;
• streptococcus;
• salmonella.

The product contains the active ingredient nitrofural, and additional compounds include sodium chloride and water for injection. To prepare the solution, you can dissolve effervescent tablets or use a ready-made liquid. You can wash your baby's eyes using both forms of release, the main thing is to dilute the substance correctly.

Storing "Furacilin" for washing the eyes of infants in open sunlight is prohibited.

Instructions for use

To wash the eye of newborns, it is necessary to properly dilute Furacilin. During suppuration, the baby’s visual organ should be wiped regularly, several times a day. When using the wash for the first time, it is better to observe the body’s reaction by applying the substance to a small area of ​​skin and, if no adverse reactions occur, you can treat the eye.

How to prepare the solution?

For the first time, instructions for use are announced by a nurse in the maternity hospital. Such recommendations are given to every young mother. It is necessary to dilute Furacilin according to the following algorithm:

1. Wash your hands and sanitize the containers in which you plan to dilute the substance. It is better to use a container that is hermetically sealed and boil it in boiling water, and then treat it with a sanitizer.
2. Grind one tablet of the substance to a powder consistency so that no large particles or lumps remain.
3. Pour the resulting mixture with a glass of water. The product can only be diluted with clean boiled water, the temperature of which is not higher than 37 degrees.
4. After adding liquid, the product must be stirred until completely dissolved.
5. Before use, the substance must infuse in a cool, dark place for at least 60 minutes.

The resulting product must be used within 24 hours. It is better to store the medicine in the refrigerator, or in a dry place at a temperature of no more than 25 degrees. Before use, it is necessary to strain the substance through cheesecloth so that a homogeneous liquid without lumps is obtained. If there are tablet residues in the substance, rinsing with this product is not possible.

Washing procedure

Before washing the eyes, the baby is usually capricious, since the deviation causes him discomfort. The procedure does not require any special skills, but manipulations must be performed carefully, since the skin around the eyes is delicate and cannot be damaged. You need to wash your newborn's eyes like this:

1. Treat your hands with disinfectant or wash with soap.
2. Heat the finished product so that its temperature is 36-37 degrees.
3. Make a tampon: wrap a cotton pad or cotton wool in a sterile bandage.
4. Blot the device in the solution and squeeze lightly to remove excess product.
5. Gently lift the eyelid and lightly wipe the sore area.
6. Wipe the eye from the outer corner to the inner one.

Separate swabs must be used to wash the right and left sides to avoid infection in healthy areas.

Even if only one eye is damaged, both should be washed. The procedure is carried out 2-4 times a day. For individual indications, the doctor prescribes more frequent use of the product. The course of therapy lasts 5-7 days. If no visible effect is observed, you need to contact an ophthalmologist and pediatrician, who will choose a different treatment method.

How to rinse

You should rinse your eyes with great care, following these recommendations:

• A small amount of medicinal solution is poured into a small container and heated to body temperature. This can be done by placing the container with the medicine in a bowl of hot water or leaving the solution for several hours at room temperature.
• Prepare cotton swabs. To do this, tear off small pieces of cotton wool and roll them into balls. For rinsing, you can use cotton pads or pieces of bandage, folded several times.
• In Furacilin, moisten cotton wool, squeeze it a little and wipe the eyes, from the bridge of the nose to the inner corner. Separate cotton pads must be used for each visual organ. It is unacceptable to re-wet cotton wool in the total volume of the solution. Take new pieces of cotton wool as needed.
• After wiping your eyelids, you can blot them a little with dry pieces of cotton wool.

If the eyelashes are very stuck with pus, then they are wiped in several stages. First, wetter pieces of cotton are used, then the cotton pads are twisted out.

If the eyes of a small child need to be treated, then they must first be placed on a flat surface. This could be a changing table or a bed covered with a diaper. Wipe the baby's eyes with care; do not forget that the skin of babies is very delicate.

After treating the eyes, the used cotton wool is thrown away. The dishes that contained the solution are washed well and rinsed with hot water. Be sure to wash your hands with soap several times.

Similar substances

There are no analogues to Furacilin. Products with identical active ingredients: “Akuto”, “Lifuzol”, “Furaplast”, “Furacilin-AKOS” are alcohol solutions that cannot be applied to the mucous membrane of a newborn’s eye. If the substance is intolerant, the baby is prescribed eye drops or rinsing with saline solution. It is important to remember that before using any medicine for a newborn, you should consult your doctor.

Finally, the long-awaited event happened - a child was born. Moms and dads usually purchase clothes, booties, diapers, and bedding for the baby in advance. Along with a stroller, a crib and clothes, parents prepare a first aid kit for the newborn, which includes brilliant green, sterile cotton wool and napkins, and iodine.

An effective remedy that has long been known

• staphylococcus;
• streptococcus;
• salmonella;
• causative agents of dysentery;
• in the fight against inflammatory processes.

According to pediatricians, furatsilin is absolutely safe for newborns, as well as for nursing mothers. It is used only as an external agent in the form of a solution. Usually the eyes of the little ones are washed to prevent souring or crusts that form on the eyelids of infants. It is recommended to use the product as prescribed by a pediatrician, since crusts can be the result of allergies and require the use of other medications.

Furacilin is also used to treat pustular wounds, burns, and treat conjunctivitis. For newborns and adults, the release form of the drug is the same - a tablet with a characteristic yellowish color. In the maternity hospital, mothers are told how to use furacilin solution and how to make it at home for morning and evening care of the baby.

How to prepare a solution of furatsilin for newborns?

Usually take one tablet and dilute it in half a glass (100 ml) of moderately hot boiled water. Under no circumstances should it be cold, otherwise the tablet crystals will take a very long time to dissolve. After the solution is made (it has a yellowish tint), it should be filtered through a sterile napkin or gauze: the remaining sediment is discarded. The resulting liquid must be cooled to room temperature and used for its intended purpose.

Usually, furatsilin for newborns is made in solution every day so that it is fresh. Before use, it can be slightly warmed to the child’s body temperature. Then use clean cotton swabs to wipe the baby’s eyes as follows:

• Dip a cotton pad into the solution and squeeze lightly;
• wipe the eye with a swab from the outside to the inner corner;
• use a new cotton pad for each eye;
• Carry out the procedure only with clean hands.

Parting words for young parents

The principle “Do no harm!” is especially relevant when such a delicate organ of the child as the eyes requires protection.

According to doctors, Furacilin is the safest and at the same time effective for treating diseases of the eye mucosa, including conjunctivitis. It is prescribed to patients of all ages, starting with infants. So, how to treat conjunctivitis in children with Furacilin?

• How does it affect the child's body?
• Treatment of the disease in newborns, babies up to one year and older
• Recommendations and precautions

How does it affect the child's body?

Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the eye (called the conjunctiva) is the result of a bacterial, fungal or viral infection.

Which one it is is not always possible to determine very quickly, therefore, in order not to delay the treatment of conjunctivitis, it is recommended to use a universal remedy.

Furacilin, for example, is effective against staphylococcus, E. coli, salmonella, fungi of the genus Candida, Shigella (therefore it is used not only in ophthalmology).

The adaptation of bacteria and viruses to the drug is so low that they do not become accustomed to it. The medicine almost never stops being effective.

The power of Furacilin lies in its active ingredient nitrofural . Under its influence, irreversible processes occur in pathogenic bacteria - their vital functions are disrupted, cell walls are destroyed. Only antibiotics and streptocide can do this.

Furacilin can be purchased in pharmacies in the form of:

solutions (water and alcohol),

The good thing about tablets is that they are stored for a long time and can be used at any time to prepare fresh medicine; the second option is usually used by parents who fear whether they can independently prepare a healing solution of sufficient quality and in the required concentration.

How Furacilin is useful:

stops the process of inflammation;

washes away foreign particles that have reached the mucous membrane;

promotes the regeneration of conjunctiva damaged by infection.

Properties of furatsilin

Furacilin is a drug that belongs to the group of antiseptics. It is yellow in color. Furacilin destroys microorganisms and is an excellent prophylactic agent. It is produced in the form of a solution or tablets. The second option is more economical, since the tablets are stored longer and fresh eye drops can be prepared from them at any time.

Furacilin has a huge advantage: it can be prescribed to both adults and children, even newborns. The drug solution will be effective when it is prepared following the technology.

Treatment of the disease in newborns, babies up to one year and older

If patients are children under 3 years of age , their eyes are washed with Furacilin solution several times during the day at intervals of 2 hours. This schedule is followed for the first day or two, then the number of procedures is reduced to three per day.

For older children, the same frequency of use of the product is usually recommended, but the doctor may make other prescriptions.

Parents should not violate the ophthalmologist's recommendations regarding the frequency and duration of procedures.

Sometimes, having quickly received a good result, adults decide on their own initiative to stop treatment, but experts emphasize: due to the nature of its effect, Furacilin is not an instantly sterilizing agent, which means that to obtain a lasting result it should be used not just once, but over several days.

For each procedure, a fresh solution is prepared . Here's how to dilute Furacilin for conjunctivitis in children:

Take a clean glass, washed with soda.

Boil water (for kids it should be distilled).

Throw 1 tablet weighing 20 mg (whole or crushed into powder) into a glass and pour in 100 ml of water (to prevent the glass from bursting, lower a clean spoon into the glass).

After a couple of minutes, try to carefully crush the tablet to speed up dissolution (if the tablet has not been crushed beforehand, it can take a long time to dissolve in water, for several hours).

The finished solution is filtered through a piece of bandage folded several times so that small particles of the drug (if any) settle on it.

If the solution has become very cold at the time of use, it is heated to room temperature that is comfortable for the eyes.

Here's how the procedure is carried out:

Soak 2 cotton pads or gauze swabs in the solution.

Pass a disc or swab over the inflamed area, direction - from the inner corner of the eye to the outer.

Even if the second eye is healthy, it is also washed (this is why a second tampon is needed).

There are other methods that are not so often used:

rinsing with a rubber bulb - the liquid collected in it is poured into the conjunctival sac of one and the other eye;

instilling the solution with a pipette;

washing the eyes in a special bath (they can be purchased at the pharmacy) - this method is suitable for older children, because the baby is unlikely to be able to do everything that is required of him while keeping his eyes open in the water.

Whatever method is chosen, it is necessary to ensure the sterility of the procedure. The pipette and rubber bulb should be boiled before use.

For newborn children, it is advisable to use a solution not home-made (from tablets), but a ready-made pharmaceutical preparation. Firstly, there will definitely be no undissolved particles left in it, and secondly, because the tablets contain auxiliary substances that are undesirable for babies, which are not present in the Furacilin pharmaceutical solution.

And one more thing: if the treatment does not give positive dynamics, it is possible that Furacilin for some reason was powerless for the patient. Parents should report their observations to the doctor - he will conduct additional diagnostics of the young patient’s condition and, most likely, change the course of therapy.

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