The difference between alcohol and iodine

Alcohol and iodophor are both commonly used by surgeons as an antiseptic solution. The specific differences are as follows: i. Alcohol disinfectant is more irritating to the wound and can lead to significant pain symptoms in patients, while iodophor disinfectant is less irritating to the wound and can effectively relieve the irritation of the disinfectant solution to the wound wound wound and effectively relieve this painful phenomenon. Second, the prolonged use of alcohol disinfectant, the patient’s local skin surface is not pigmented, if the prolonged use of iodophor for disinfection, may lead to local skin pigmentation, heat, blackening of the situation. Third, alcohol is more irritating, and if alcohol is used for a long time for disinfection, it is not conducive to the healing of wound trauma. Because of the strong irritation of alcohol, the survival rate of granulation tissue in the wound is low, which will cause slow wound healing. Therefore, patients are advised to use iodophor disinfectant for disinfection.