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Chemical Burns Treatment
Diphoterine®, unlike water, will stop the penetration of the
chemical.
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To decontaminate an entire
body. Typical equipment for locations where there are
large quantities of chemicals
- Production areas
- Warehousing areas
- Off-loading and decanting areas |
To
decontaminate
a limb or a torso
An ideal complement for a Wall
Mounted Eyewash, where the quantities
of chemicals are limited:
Laboratories |
To
decontaminate a face or a hand
Ideal personal equipment for
small splashes:
Workshops
Maintenance personnel |
To
decontaminate an eye
In locations where fixed equipment is well adapted:
- Laboratories
- Production areas
- Warehousing areas
- Off-loading and decanting areas |
To decontaminate an eye
In areas where the equipment must be portable:
- First-aid boxes
- Medical centre
- Emergency vehicles |
Personal equipment to
decontaminate an eye:
Ideal for the maintenance personnel |
A chemical burn is
initiated by the contact between the aggressive product and the
skin or eye. Following this contact, part of the aggressive
chemical will penetrate into the tissue and cause destruction of
the cells.
To effectively decontaminate the splash, it will be necessary,
not only to decontaminate the product on the surface, but also
to control its penetration inside the tissue.
The
principles of washing with water
- washing of the
surface to remove quickly the aggressive product -
dilution of the chemical to reduce its
aggressiveness
- a universal
product avoids the risks of error at the time of the
accident
What are its
limitations?
- concentrated products which penetrate very quickly
- the intervention time of 10 seconds which is not
always achievable - washing comfort : risk of
hypothermia under a water shower difficulty to open the
eye |
The
principles of washing with Diphoterine®
- It is a liquid
which enables it to obtain the same effect as water
on the surface of the skin or eye
- Diphoterine® is a
chelating amphoteric agent, which enables it to stop
the aggressiveness of the chemicals in a polyvalent
way.
- Diphoterine®,
unlike water, will stop the penetration of the
chemical.
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The
effectiveness of Diphoterine® has been tested on more than 600
chemicals belonging to the various classes of aggressive
products (acids, bases, oxidising agents, etc…) within the
Prevor laboratories.
The effectiveness of Diphoterine® has been proven in industry
through many reported and published cases of accidents (complete
bibliography available on Internet)
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DIPHOTERINE®’S MECHANISM OF ACTION
Diphoterine® is a general-purpose washing solution for
ocular and cutaneous chemical splashes. Diphoterine® is
a hypertonic, amphoteric and mulitisite washing
solution. It therefore has a double effect:
- the mechanical
properties of washing with water
- the additional
neutralising and chelating properties which at the
same time make
it possible to accelerate and to optimise the
process of decontamination.
- Because of its
hypertonicity, Diphoterine® prevents the chemical
from penetrating the tissue and makes it possible to
create a reverse flux capable of pulling the
chemical away from the tissue.
- Its amphoteric
character and its various reactive sites enable it
to act on the irritating and corrosive agents which
are at the origin of chemical burns. These are
products such as acids, bases, oxidising agents and
reducing agents etc.
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