CAUSTIC PENCIL 40% (RED)

Description

With well-established antiseptic and antimicrobial properties, silver nitrate from an applicator or pencil is applied topically usually in aqueous solution and used as a haemostatic, for pain relief in certain conditions and for the removal of small quantities of unwanted tissue. Caustic pencil 40% is available at Rangechem locations and branches country wide.

Avoca Silver Nitrate Caustic Applicators and Silver Nitrate Caustic Pencils are widely used throughout the world by physicians, surgeons, nurses, midwives, podiatrists, dentists, general practitioners and veterinary surgeons. Uses include nongenital warts and verrucas, granulation tissue, wound healing, stoma maintenance, umbilical stumps, cautery, anterior epistaxis, vasomotor rhinitis, post-bioptic cervical nicks, skin tags and pain relief for aphthous stomatitis.

For difficult to reach places, for example ear nose and throat cavities, an Avoca Silver Nitrate Caustic pencil can be bent to give easier access. Moulded at high temperatures, an Avoca Silver Nitrate Caustic Applicator is hygienic and will not splinter in contrast to wooden sticks.

Avoca Silver Nitrate Caustic Applicators and Silver Nitrate Caustic Pencil are simple to use, effective and economical for verruca removal. Instructions for using applicators and pencils are the same. Available at Rangechem locations and branches country wide.

Once dissolved in either body fluid or clean tap water (distilled, deionised and purified water can be used but are not necessary if tap water is clean and does not have a high salt content) silver nitrate is absorbed by epidermal tissue to a very shallow depth where it alters the pH of the environment of protein molecules causing them to die.