Silver nitrate

FDA label, Bray Group Limited, topical, effective 2021-01-19. Full label on DailyMed

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Dosing in kidney impairment

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Preparation and administration

The applicator action can be stopped by washing the area with a saline solution (0.9% sodium chloride).

Contraindications

Contraindications & Antidotes Caustic applicators must not be used for genital warts. Continued application to mucous membranes and open wounds leads to argyria, a bluish-black discoloration of the skin due to depositions of granules of silver compounds in the connective tissues. This condition persists indefinitely or disappears very slowly. Poisoning by oral ingestion is unlikely with the quantities involved, but treatment for poisoning is the immediate ingestion of large amounts of salt water followed by an emetic. Then administer a dose of Epsom Salts followed with milk. Immediately call a physician.

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