[Urea as an antimicrobial and dehydration agent for the local treatment of suppurative surgical infection]

The 30% solution of urea is found to be an effective quick-acting means against gram-positive and gram-negative pyogenic microflora. Microorganisms discharged from purulent foci of patients were sensitive to the drug in 100% of cases. The local application of the 30% urea solution as irrigation used in 156 patients with pyo-surgical infection has shown the drug to be well endured by the patients. It has no side effects. The purulent process can be cupped off 1,5-1,7 times quicker.