Potassium Permanganate is a strong oxidant, with a stronger oxidizing effect than hydrogen peroxide. It can destroy bacterial and microbial tissues through oxidation, making it useful for sterilization and disinfection. Additionally, it is reduced to form manganese dioxide, which combines with proteins to form protein salt complexes. Both this complex and permanganate ions have astringent effects. Furthermore, due to its strong oxidizing properties, Potassium Permanganate is used for detoxification and deodorization, making it widely utilized in poultry farming.

1. Pharmacological effects of Potassium Permanganate

The pharmacological effect of Potassium Permanganate involves its decomposition in water, forming potassium hydroxide, manganese oxide, manganese dioxide, and other substances, while releasing oxygen. The oxygen released can act on bacterial proteins, destroying their structure and thereby killing pathogenic microorganisms. Manganese dioxide can combine with skin mucosal proteins to form a complex that covers the skin mucosa. At low concentrations, Potassium Permanganate has an astringent effect, while at high concentrations, it has a corrosive effect that is stronger than that of hydrogen peroxide. Clinically, it is often used to treat infected and purulent pathological ulcer lesions.

2. Application of Potassium Permanganate in Veterinary Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment

In veterinary clinical practice, Potassium Permanganate is effective for antibacterial and anti-inflammatory purposes, oxidative detoxification, and astringent and antidiarrheal treatments.

1. Antibacterial and Anti-inflammatory Effects

1.1 Drinking Water Disinfection

Poultry such as chickens, ducklings, and pigeons can be given a Potassium Permanganate solution of a certain concentration to drink several times a day. This promotes the excretion of meconium and effectively prevents diseases like pullorum and coccidiosis. In addition to disinfection, it also increases trace manganese levels, helping to prevent tendinopathy and joint swelling and deformation.

1.2 Feed Disinfection

Before feeding, green feed like forage grass, leaves, peanut vines, sweet potato vines, and corn stalks can be soaked in Potassium Permanganate solution for a certain time, then dried and used as feed. This can prevent coccidiosis, gastroenteritis, diarrhea, and other diseases in poultry such as chickens, ducks, geese, birds, and rabbits.

1.3 Skin and Mucous Membrane Disinfection

Rinsing wounds and ulcers from conditions like boils, abscesses, cellulitis, and bedsores with a Potassium Permanganate solution can prevent infection, relieve pain, reduce itching, and decrease inflammation.

1.4 Air and Item Disinfection

Cages, ceilings, floors, walls, and items in enclosed areas such as operating rooms, sterile rooms, brooding rooms, livestock houses, and incubators can be cleaned and disinfected after use to achieve good disinfection results. Fumigation should be done using a deep ceramic container, as it can effectively kill common bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Pasteurella.

1.5 Astringent and Antidiarrheal Effect

For gastroenteritis and chronic diarrhea in livestock and poultry, administering a Potassium Permanganate solution can provide effective astringent and antidiarrheal treatment.

III. Precautions

3.1 Prepare the solution as needed and use it immediately, as its disinfection effect decreases or disappears over time.

3.2 Ensure the solution is completely dissolved to avoid the risk of poisoning.

3.3 The soaking time for Potassium Permanganate should not be too short.