Chlorhexidine gluconate is an over-the-counter (OTC) antiseptic used to clean and prepare skin for injections, surgeries, and other procedures. It is also available as a prescription oral rinse to ...

Patients who had been mechanically ventilated for over 24 hrs prior to PICU admission, with tracheostomies, with inaccessible oral cavities, and with known hypersensitivity to chlorhexidine were ...

Studies included were human clinical trials evaluating the effect of a chlorhexidine (CHX) rinse on the incidence of alveolar osteitis (AO), following extraction of mandibular third molars ...

I’m not certain what I should do. — R.M. Dear R.M.: There remains controversy about whether chlorhexidine scrubs (Hibiclens) are effective at preventing infections with urological ...

Background Chlorhexidine is the gold standard of dental plaque prevention. The aim of the present study was to compare the plaque and gingivitis inhibiting effect of commercial products containing ...