Question
Posted on: April 12 2016Lacrytube is no longer available. Can I help my client with my own preparation?
After all, he currently uses Duratears or Vita-Pos eye ointment But both give him an uncomfortable feeling.
The composition of Lacrytube is per G: liquid paraffin 300.0 mg; Petroleum jelly (white) 600.0 mg; Wool Grease 100.0 mg
Answer
Copying Lacrytube is not difficult and feasible in the pharmacy and because we speak about A fat mixture is therefore very little contaminable.
1. weigh all fats in beaker and cover with all foil. Sterilize in your oven in the kitchen at 150 ° C as well as the tubes without cap of 10 ml packed in BV baking paper. 2. sterilize for 1 hour from reaching 150 ° thus a total of 75 min; 3. Lay caps of tubes in alcohol; 4. Then allow to cool to still die-cast; 5. Pour into all tubes and close. risk of presence of many germs small