Use medical swabs matters needing attention

Of medical cotton swabs for people over the years, the use frequency increasing, cotton swabs are no longer just appeared in the hospital, more and more into people's life, then you know what need to pay attention to some use cotton? Let's follow together to get to know the shenzhen swab manufacturer. More than 1, pay attention to the shelf life of ordinary medical swabs using double paper. The cotton swabs after high temperature and high pressure disinfection, in unopened state, shelf life is usually for two weeks. Southern humid area, however, or spring plum rains season, because paper is easy to be affected with damp be affected with damp, so that the bacteria to infiltrate inside packing, therefore, the cotton swabs shelf life is likely to be only a week or so. Production of medical cotton swabs and shenzhen using sealed packaging, longer shelf life than ordinary cotton swabs. 2 don't used for wound disinfection swab, family average household use at ordinary times the number of medical cotton swabs is not much, no conditions on the kaifeng also 24 hours after the rest of the cotton swabs for sterilization processing again. Therefore, we suggest that put the cotton swabs as ordinary use make up cotton swabs, or discard processing, do not used to deal with the wound, especially for the baby to deal with the wound. Sterile swabs required for skin disinfection supplies, once polluted, can make the wound infection occurs. Some people think that anyway, cotton swabs are stained with disinfectant, such as some of iodine volts, alcohol a little bacteria also not out of the way. They don't know, disinfection and sterilization are two different concepts. Disinfection is kill pathogenic microorganisms on the items; Sterilization is thoroughly exterminate all items on the pathogenesis and the pathogenic microorganisms, including spore. Sterilization including disinfection, and sterilization does not take the place of sterilization. That is to say, iodine volts, disinfectant can kill pathogenic microorganisms such as alcohol, but not if medical swabs sterile, but with spores and other microorganisms, the disinfectant to also have no way, even a detergent will therefore is polluted. So, to ensure the aseptic cotton swabs, is one of the important measures to prevent infection. 3, save swab important save medical cotton swabs, to ensure the packing sealing, and also note that swabs should be stored in the relative humidity is not more than eighty percent, no corrosive gas and indoor ventilated, avoid high temperature.