Can medical alcohol be used for sterilization?

Medical alcohol belongs to the medical device business scope, and alcohol belongs to a class of medical devices in the medical device, business alcohol or other class of medical devices, you need to have a qualified business license, and you need to ensure that the product is valid and qualified production conditions.

Ethanol at room temperature and pressure is a flammable, volatile colorless transparent liquid, low toxicity, pure liquid is not directly drinkable; with a special flavor, and slightly stimulating; slightly sweet, and accompanied by stimulating spicy taste. Flammable, its vapor can form explosive mixtures with air, can be mutually soluble with water in any ratio. Miscible with chloroform, ether, methanol, acetone and most other organic solvents.

Different concentrations of disinfectants:

Alcohol above 99.5% (v/v) is called anhydrous alcohol. Uses in biology: The pigments in chloroplasts are soluble in the organic solvent anhydrous ethanol (or acetone), so the pigments in chloroplasts can be extracted with anhydrous ethanol.

95% alcohol is used to wipe down UV lamps. This alcohol is commonly used in hospitals, but at home it will only be used for cleaning camera lenses.

70% to 75% alcohol is used for sterilization. This is because too high a concentration of alcohol will form a protective film on the surface of the bacteria, preventing it from entering the bacteria and making it difficult to kill them completely. If the concentration of alcohol is too low, although it can enter the bacteria, but can not coagulate the proteins in its body, the same can not completely kill the bacteria. Among them, 75% of the alcohol disinfection effect is the best.

40% to 50% alcohol can prevent bedsores. Long-term bedridden patients back, waist, buttocks due to long-term pressure can cause bedsores, such as massage will be a small amount of 40% to 50% of the alcohol poured into the hands of the patient evenly massaged parts of the pressure, you can achieve the promotion of local blood circulation, to prevent the formation of decubitus ulcers purpose.

25% to 50% of the alcohol can be used for physical antipyretic. Patients with high fever can use it to rub their bodies to achieve the purpose of cooling. Rubbing the skin with alcohol can make the patient's skin vasodilatation, increase the skin's ability to dissipate heat, alcohol evaporation, heat absorption, so that the patient's body surface temperature is reduced, the symptoms are relieved.