Crede’s method in eye water finds a nanomedicine base: a potential candidate to control ophthalmia neonatorum

• Published in: European journal of nanomedicine Vol. 8; no. 4; pp. 233 - 237
• Main Authors: Roy, Anupam, Shrivastava, Shanker L., Saha, Suman, Khamrai, Subhasish, Jana, Malabendu, Mandal, Santi M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin De Gruyter 01.10.2016; Walter de Gruyter GmbH
• Subjects: antimicrobial; silver nitrate; silver oxide nanoparticle; tear

Lethal eye infections of newborns occur mostly due to their passage through the contaminated birth canal. In the pre-antibiotic era blindness from such infections was most challenging. This scenario changed after the 1880s with the use of Crede’s method (a drop of 2.0% silver nitrate solution into n...