Everyone knows the zelenka famous in Russia. However, few people read the labels on the jars with this coloring and healing solution. Well, green and green - everyone knows her anyway. Meanwhile, if you look closely at the packaging, you can read the following: "Diamond Green." You may have seen this mysterious inscription before and could not understand what kind of diamond it is, when you can simply write "Zelenka" and everyone would understand. We hope that when you read the history of the occurrence of this substance, and after it the drug, many questions related to this rather ancient external medicine will be clarified for you.
Dye
In England, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the young and very ambitious scientist William Perkin set himself the noble goal of saving the world from malaria. He immediately set about creating a cure for her. During experiments with coal tar, a similar powdery dye was obtained. Diamond green along with many other dyes was created by this scientist. The young man did not save the world from the disease, but opened a plant for the production of dyes, which are much cheaper than those that were previously offered.
Disclosure of the properties of the dye
Contribution to medicine was still made considerable. At first, the use of diamond green aniline dye occurred in medical laboratories. However, over time, its use has become wider. Microorganisms stained with brilliant green were better visible through a microscope. Over time, medical professionals began to notice that the study of organisms is difficult, despite improved visibility. The reason is quite interesting: experimental microorganisms simply die in large numbers, if you use this dye. A similar fact interested doctors.
Zelenka's contribution to medicine
Several experiments were carried out, during which it turned out that an aqueous solution of brilliant green, like its alcohol counterpart, can kill pathogenic bacteria. So the antiseptic properties of the coloring powder were revealed. The solution began to be used to disinfect surgical instruments, and to treat the hands of surgeons and other doctors. Used green during childbirth and after surgery. Due to the properties of the green antiseptic, mortality from sepsis of patients has decreased many times. For such great services to mankind, the scientist was awarded the title of knight, although he came from an ordinary peasant family. Now he was called sir.
Former Union countries only
In medicine, today they mainly use green broth, which has alcohol in its composition. An aqueous solution of brilliant green is considered to be quite a non-weak remedy. An antiseptic based on green dye is used only in Russia and the countries of the former Union. The West has long abandoned the use of this drug. The reason for this is not so much its inefficiency (according to foreign doctors), the unaesthetics of the drug caused it to be abandoned.
During treatment with brilliant green, the stains remaining from the product stain the skin, bedding and personal belongings of the patient. Washing does not remove this coloring matter well. Yes, and the person himself during the application of greenbacks does not look very attractive. Foreign doctors are very sensitive to the aesthetic side of treatment and try to do a lot so that a person during the treatment procedures feels comfortable and does not arouse suspicious glances among others with a military malachite color.
Another reason for refusing to use this antiseptic was that even to date, green medicine has not been studied by Western doctors, they don’t understand how the solution can affect the patient’s further health. It makes no sense to study the old drug, because the costs of laboratory tests will be enormous, and the cost of greenbacks is very low and will not pay for this money. Instead of the famous solution we have in the west, Castellani's colorless antiseptic liquid is universally used.
What does it consist of?
The composition of brilliant green, most often used in medicine for an alcoholic preparation, includes one or two grams of the coloring powder itself and about sixty percent of ethyl alcohol. Zelenka is packed in glass bottles with rubber or plastic cork. Pharmacy chains offer solution vials in screw-down bottles of dark glass.
Now you can also purchase this antiseptic in the form of a marker (felt-tip pen or pencil). Zelenka-felt-tip pen is very convenient in that it does not bother everything around itself during its opening and use. Hands remain clean and wounds are treated.
How to keep green?
Diamond green is stored only in a dark place and at a temperature of fifteen degrees (the most optimal). From the time of manufacture, the shelf life of brilliant green is two years. Do not leave the diamond solution open to prevent the evaporation of alcohol from its composition. Powdered coloring matter does not have an expiration date, or rather, it can be stored indefinitely.
Effective external antiseptic
Zelenka is an antiseptic and is widely used in our country. It effectively acts against gram-positive microorganisms, kills some strains of pathogenic fungi. Staphylococcus aureus and diphtheria bacillus instantly die under its influence.
How and where is the solution used?
The use of brilliant green solution is acceptable even in newborns. This is due to the fact that this external antiseptic acts on the dermis very carefully. Many people know that even the umbilical cord of newly born babies is treated with green leaf. The drug also lubricates the vesicles with chickenpox in children and adults. Zelenka in this case not only disinfects the wound, but also slightly dries the fluid released from the chickenpox vesicles, weakens skin itching.
Some children watch with interest how mothers “decorate” them with green spots. A slight burning sensation that occurs when a cotton swab and a wound comes in contact can be reduced by blowing onto the treated area. However, there are children running away from you as soon as they notice in their hands the presence of a “scary” coloring solution, which is also burning.
The instruction of brilliant green allows the use of an agent for the treatment of inflammatory purulent skin diseases: staphylococcal infection (local), furunculosis and pyoderma. Antiseptic grease cuts and abrasions. In this case, brilliant green can be applied directly to an open wound. When dressing the wound, it is necessary to re-treat it every time, refreshing the antimicrobial effect of brilliant green.
The coloring green is convenient in that it is clearly visible which area has remained unprocessed and needs to be applied. Also, the drug contributes to faster healing of wounds.
Contraindications
The people use greenery everywhere, and few people think about the fact that she also has some contraindications. For example, a solution can cause noticeable allergic reactions in some people. They are most often manifested by intolerable itching and burning.
If the wound continues to bleed heavily, it is also impossible to use greenback. This is because blood leaches the antiseptic solution from the wound, and such treatment is ineffective. To increase the effect, it is necessary to stop the blood and only after that use the greenback. It is forbidden to use greenbacks in combination with disinfectants, which contain chlorine or alkali. Iodine also goes banned during the application of the green diamond solution.
Iodine
Along with brilliant green in each home medicine cabinet there is also a vial of iodine. What is the difference between these two solutions? How to understand at what point the use of iodine will be most appropriate, and at what point - a green solution? What are the actions of these antiseptics?
The source of iodine is brown seaweed. A brown-colored preparation with a characteristic odor is produced from them. The composition of the drug also includes alcohol. However, its effect on skin tissue is somewhat different. In no case should iodine be applied to an open (especially fresh) wound. Its use is effective only if applied to the skin around the wounded area.
Often iodine is used for bruises, bruises and sprains. In such cases, it is used for blood flow to the tissues of the affected area. The grid drawn by iodine is absorbed into the skin and makes the blood come to the bruised places for further healing of the site.