Have the effect of disinfection alcohol prep pad?
The alcohol prep pad Has the effect of disinfection.But the disinfection effect of alcohol is not swab itself.
Ethanol under atmospheric pressure is a flammable, volatile colorless transparent liquid, low toxicity, the pure liquid do not drink;With special fragrance, and the stimulation;Micro, accompanied by stimulation of the spicy taste.Flammable, the steam can form explosive mixtures with air, can miscibility with water in any ratio.With chloroform, ether and methanol, acetone and most other organic solvents miscibility, relative density (d15.56) 0.816.
Pharmacological effects
disinfection
Widely used in medical sterilizing (volume fraction of 75% plus or minus 5% ethanol solution is often used in medical disinfection).
Instruments generally use 95% ethanol for disinfection;70 ~ 75% of the alcohol used for sterilization, such as 75% ethanol at room temperature (25 ℃), one minute can kill escherichia coli, staphylococcus aureus, candida albicans, white read aureus, pseudomonas aeruginosa, etc;Lower concentration of alcohol is used to lower the body temperature, promote local blood circulation, etc.
But research shows that ethanol can't kill bacteria spore, also cannot kill hepatitis virus (such as: the hepatitis b virus).Ethanol can only be used for general disinfection, sterilization standards.
eating
Ethanol can also be used for edible, such as wine.Because it can be used as a good organic solvent, so use it to take Chinese traditional medicine of traditional Chinese medicine, dissolve in most organic composition in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
The role of alcohol use in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) on:
Line 1, alcohol can be medicine, the ancients called "the wine for the length of the medicine", alcohol can then outside of the medicine on the table and as to the top, make the line and qi blood drug effect is good play, also can make the nourishing medicine fill without delay;
2, alcohol precipitation of active ingredients help drug, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) of various components are easy to dissolve alcohol;
3, anticorrosive effect.
