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Yellow Mercuric Oxide
An odourless orange-yellow, amorphous powder. Practically
insoluble in water and in alcohol, soluble in acids.
Yellow mercuric oxide has been used in eye ointments for the
local treatment of minor infections including the eradication
of pubic lice from the eyelashes. Absorption can occur and
produce the adverse effects of inorganic mercury (see below).
Mercuric oxide has been associated with clinical exacerba-
tions of porphyria and is considered unsafe in porphyric pa-
tients.
Pediculosis. Yellow mercuric oxide 1% eye ointment was
considered to be a safe and effective treatment in pediculosis
of the eyelashes caused by pubic lice (pthiriasis
palpebrarum).
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