Where can I buy potassium iodide?

Potassium iodide is a prescription drug and needs to be prescribed in a regular hospital.

Use:

1, potassium iodide is often used as corrosion inhibitor for steel pickling or synergist for other corrosion inhibitors. Potassium iodide is the raw material for preparing iodide and dye. Used as photographic emulsifier and food additive, used as expectorant and diuretic in medicine, used as medicine for preventing and treating goiter and hyperthyroidism before operation, and also used as analytical reagent. It is used as a photosensitive emulsifier in the photographic industry and also as a drug and food additive.

2. Used as feed additive. As a component of thyroxine, iodine participates in the metabolism of all substances in livestock and poultry and maintains the heat balance in the body. Iodine is an essential hormone for the growth, reproduction and lactation of livestock and poultry, which can improve their growth performance and promote their health.

If there is iodine deficiency in livestock and poultry, it will lead to metabolic disorder, organism disorder and goiter, which will affect nerve function, coat color and digestion and absorption of feed, and eventually lead to slow growth and development.

3. The food industry is used as a nutritional supplement (iodine fortifier). It can also be used as feed additive.

4. Used as analytical reagent, such as preparing iodine standard solution as auxiliary reagent. It is also used as photosensitive emulsifier and feed additive. Used in pharmaceutical industry.

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Prescription:

1. Doctors should make prescriptions according to the needs of medical treatment, prevention and health care, and according to the indications, pharmacological effects, usage, dosage, contraindications, adverse reactions and precautions of drugs in the diagnosis and treatment specifications and drug instructions.

The prescriptions of toxic drugs and radioactive drugs for medical use shall strictly abide by the provisions of relevant laws, regulations and rules.

2. The prescription is valid on the same day. If it is necessary to extend the validity period under special circumstances, the prescriber shall indicate the validity period, but the longest validity period shall not exceed 3 days.

3, the prescription generally shall not exceed 7 days dosage; Emergency prescription shall generally not exceed 3 days; For some chronic diseases, senile diseases or special circumstances, the prescription dose may be appropriately extended, but the doctor should indicate the reasons.

4, the prescription dosage of toxic drugs and radioactive drugs for medical use should be strictly in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state.

5. Doctors should use the generic name of the drug, the name of the patented drug of the new active compound and the name of the compound preparation approved and published by the drug supervision and administration department when prescribing.

6. Doctors should use the name approved by the provincial health administrative department and the drug supervision and administration department when prescribing hospital preparations.

7. Doctors can prescribe drugs with customary names published by the Ministry of Health.

8. When doctors use computers to draw up and transmit commonly used prescriptions, they should also print out paper prescriptions with the same format as handwritten prescriptions; The printed paper prescription is valid after being signed or sealed. When pharmacists distribute drugs, they should check the printed paper prescriptions and distribute them to drugs after they are correct, and keep the printed paper prescriptions and computer-transmitted prescriptions for future reference.