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What is medical silicone oil?
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2023-10-08
Medical silicone oils are polyorganosiloxane fluids and their derivatives that are used for diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases, or for lubrication and defoaming functions in medical devices.
Broadly speaking, for skin care, beauty cosmetics silicone oil also belongs to this category. Commonly used medical silicone oil for polydimethylsiloxane, the use of its defoaming properties, can be made to treat abdominal distension of flatulence tablets and treatment of pulmonary edema aerosol, can also be used in abdominal surgery as a prevention of intestinal adhesions of anti-adhesion agents, in gastroscopy as a gastric antifoaming agent and some of the lubricants of the medical surgical instruments.
Medical silicone oil is required to be produced in a clean environment, with high purity, no residual acid and alkali catalysts, and low volatility, and is now mostly produced by resin method.