I am in the uk and struggling to find bacs water online. Does anyone know where I can get it from? I won't be storing in a fridge so I will need to use bacs rather than sodium chloride. Thanks
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We've placed many orders with people advertising Hospira water, and sending out anything ranging from unlabeled water vials to 'sterile water for injection' - which isn't bac water.
Remember;
If it's in a single use vial, or one where you have to snap the top, it's not bac water.
If it's not in a vial with a genuine brand label (Hospira/APP), or there is no plastic cap (like your MT2), it's probably not bac water.
-If the cap is missing the vial could be tampered with and should not be used.
-If the label is missing or isn't a genuine brand, you could be using a homemade solution, or sterile water/sodium chloride - and paying one hell of a premium for nothing.
The only reason we don't provide it is because there are currently no websites providing legitimate bacteriostatic water in the UK - at least not in the top few pages of google.
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I am in the uk and struggling to find bacs water online. Does anyone know where I can get it from? I won't be storing in a fridge so I will need to use bacs rather than sodium chloride. Thanks
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I made it myself.
Sterile sodium chloride 0,9% (sold as eyewash solution) + Benzyl Alcohol 0,9%.
I inject 27 units BA, directly in a 30ml plastic container.
The result is "Bacteriostatic Sodiumchloride 0,9%".
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I made it myself.
Sterile sodium chloride 0,9% (sold as eyewash solution) + Benzyl Alcohol 0,9%.
I inject 27 units BA, directly in a 30ml plastic container.
The result is "Bacteriostatic Sodiumchloride 0,9%".
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Do you use USP BA & filter the product into a sterile vial?
@Djen
I put the eyewash container, inside of an alcoholic sterilized vitamin glass.
I use it 5 times or 3 months, and keep it in the refrigerator.
@Melanotan
No, just plain sterile eye wash, and just BA used for food preservation.
Everything can easily be bought without a prescription.
Maybe this is the secret why I no side effects gets and becomes dark brown :-)
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@Djen
I put the eyewash container, inside of an alcoholic sterilized vitamin glass.
I use it 5 times or 3 months, and keep it in the refrigerator.
@Melanotan
No, just plain sterile eye wash, and just BA used for food preservation.
Everything can easily be bought without a prescription.
Maybe this is the secret why I no side effects gets and becomes dark brown ]"
Curious how long it takes to expire at room temp...
@Djen
Eyewash solution ARE 100% STERILE water, just added 0,9% Sodium Chloride. It is the same water that hospitals use to intravenous injection when patients are dehydrated.
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thx, but how do you add the alcohol and how much exactly?
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BnOH is sold in a multi use vial, like your MT2/bac water, you withdraw it with a needle.
You'll need sterile water for injection, wouldn't advise eyewash solutions myself but that's up to you.
You'll also need a STERILE 5-40ml vial, the size is up to you.
You'll also need some alcohol wipes.
Using roughly 9 units of BnOH per 10ml (1000 units) of water will get you into the 0.9% range for volume, however I'm not sure if you should be measuring by weight, and so that calculation may be slightly off.
I still wouldn't advise it for the average person though, as I know many have measuring issues and you need to be pretty damn close.
Tom
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so how much benzyl alchohol do you add to a certain amount of sterile water? Using syringes could help to measure correctly.
What brands would be the best?
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so how much benzyl alchohol do you add to a certain amount of sterile water? Using syringes could help to measure correctly.
What brands would be the best?
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I said above]
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Using roughly 9 units of BnOH per 10ml (1000 units) of water will get you into the 0.9% range for volume.
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But I'm sure it's actually measured by weight so will be a little bit off because H2O (+NaCl) and BnOH have different densities, but you can't account for that in quantitites this small.
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I still wouldn't advise it for the average person though, as I know many have measuring issues and you need to be pretty damn close.
Tom
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Totally agree.
And especially because most people have little math skills.
It was totally impossible for me to get sent Hospira bac-water to my country, so I had to make it myself and this does not worry me.
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So it's better to prepare larger quantities and measure the benzyl alcohol with a syringe?
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Yep, as the volume increases the minor variances in reading scales and precision decrease - but it all depends on your equipment, knowledge and experience.
Basically it's 1000 units (10ml) of water for every 9 units to make it 0.9%.
10ml = 9 units
20ml = 18 units
30ml = 27 units
40ml = 36 units
50ml = 45 units
etc.
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