Silver sulfadiazine

Silver sulfadiazine is a topicalantibioticused primarily on second- and third-degree burns. The cream is kept applied to the burned skin at all times, for the duration of the healing period or until a graftis applied. It prevents the growth of a wide array of bacteria, as well as yeast, on the damaged skin. Silver sulfadiazine is typically delivered in a 1% solutionsuspended in a water-solublebase. The chemical itself is poorly soluble, and has only very limited penetration through the skin. Only when applied to very large area burns is absorption into the body generally a problem.

It is also helpful on other shallow, large-area wounds such as abrasions.

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