Medical cotton ball is made of medical absorbent cotton. It is white, soft, odorless, tasteless, elastic and commonly used medical supplies. It is use for medical institutions to do coating, scrub, debridement, skin disinfection and disinfection of medical equipment.

Medical cotton balls can be divided into sterile medical cotton balls and non-sterile medical cotton balls.

The medical cotton balls made up of iodophor, iodine tincture or alcohol and smearing materials, such as iodophor cotton balls and alcohol cotton balls, belong to Class II medical devices as disposable medical supplies. Some products have components for hand-held. It is clinically used to disinfect intact skin.

Aseptic cotton ball is made of absorbent material such as medical absorbent cotton. It is a disposable medical article without disinfectant and belongs to Class II medical appliance. Some products have components for hand-held. The utility model is used for cleaning the skin and the wound surface in clinic.

General Medical Cotton Ball is a disposable medical article without disinfectant, which belongs to Class I medical instrument. The utility model is used for cleaning the skin and the wound surface in clinic.

Clinical application of medical cotton ball

It is used in nursing, examination, operation and daily disinfection in medical institutions. It is commonly used sterile medical cotton balls that are sterilized and are used primarily for skin disinfecting with a disinfecting solution (75% medical alcohol or 0.2% iodine tincture) . It is used for adults and children over the age of 2 years old skin mucosa sterilization. The usage is very simple. Soak the medical cotton ball in the disinfectant, suck up the disinfectant, squeeze out the remaining liquid and wipe the skin or affected part.