It is used to loosen and help dissolve and deodorize necrotic tissue.
It is irritating to the skin unless rinsed off promptly.
Topically applied hypochlorites may dissolve blood clots and cause bleeding.
Sodium hypochlorite could interfere with the Clinistix and Labstix qualitative urine tests for glucose to produce false positive results.
Traces of sodium hypochlorite soln adhering to utensils for preparing feeds of pooled human milk for premature infants increase dietary sodium intake by 50% in a series of 9 paired estimations.