Loading ...Efficacy of “Essential Iodine Drops” [use 5% Lugols solution] against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus 2
Conclusion
Iodine-V (currently only available in EID formulation) inactivated 99% of SARS-CoV-2 after 60 and 90 seconds; quite similar to Povidone-Iodine (PVP-I) (99.99% at 60 seconds) reported elsewhere. Being excipient-free, this data also suggests that Iodine-V is likely to have better stability and an enhanced potency in vivo when compared with PVP-I. Therefore, Iodine-V offers an advantage as a nasal or oral antiseptic to reduce viral transmission from known or suspected COVID-19 patients with the increasing home-based care approach for COVID-19 patients, the risk of transmitting SARS-CoV-2 virus among family members and the immediate community can be reduced using intranasal/oral Iodine-V, which has the potential to remove or inactivate shed virus from respiratory secretions of known or suspected COVID-19 cases.