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Calamine, also known as calamine lotion, is a medication made from powdered calamine mineral that is used to treat mild itchiness. [2][3] Conditions treated include sunburn, insect bites, poison ivy, poison oak, and other mild skin conditions. [4][5] It may also help dry out secretions resulting from skin irritation. [1]
Calamine lotion comes under the category of shake lotions and contains calamine and zinc oxide as active ingredients. In addition, it also contains bentonite, glycerine, sodium citrate, and liquified phenol. This article focuses on calamine lotion and preparations that contain calamine lotion.
Examples include calamine lotion, ciclopirox lotion, and sodium sulfacetamide lotion. Calamine lotion contains 8% each of zinc oxide and calamine, the latter composed of zinc oxide and a small amount of ferric oxide.
Assay— Digest about 1.5 g of freshly ignited Calamine, accurately weighed, with 50.0 mL of 1 N sulfuric acid VS, applying gentle heat until no further solution occurs. Filter the mixture, and wash the residue on the filter with hot water until the last washing is neutral to litmus paper.
13 sty 2022 · Calamine lotion is a shake lotion composed of calamine (zinc oxide/carbonate and ferric oxide), zinc oxide, bentonite, glycerine, sodium citrate, and liquified phenol.
7 sie 2021 · Calamine powder is a composition of zinc oxide combined with some amounts of ferric oxide. The presence of iron (in the form of ferric oxide) in Calamine powder.
