OFTALMISK LOESNING, SAMT FREMGANGSMAATE FOR KONSERVERING AVEN SLIK LOESNING

• Main Authors: RIPLEY, PAUL S, DZIABO, ANTHONY J
• Format: Patent
• Language: Norwegian
• Published: 30.05.1990
• Edition: 5
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, ORSURGICAL ARTICLES; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; HYGIENE; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICALARTICLES; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS INGENERAL; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; TRAPPING

Stabilized chlorine dioxide is a preservative for ophthalmic formulations. The stabilized chlorine dioxide, when employed as a preservative or in the formulation of aqueous saline ophthalmic solutions is present in an amount of from about 0.0002 to about 0.02 weight/volume percent. The aqueous saline ophthalmic solutions, in addition to the stabilized chlorine dioxide and the water which functions as a vehicle for the solutions, contains from about 0.5 to about 0.9 weight/volume percent of an ophthalmically acceptable inorganic salt and an effective minor amount of a buffering agent to stabilize the ophthalmic solution with an acceptable physiological pH. A method for preserving aqueous saline ophthalmic solutions utilizing stabilized chlorine dioxide is also set forth.