Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 19 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES
Division 20 - Division of Community and Public Health
Chapter 26 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Section 19 CSR 20-26.010 - Prevention of Blindness

Universal Citation: 19 MO Code of State Regs 20-26.010

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 18, September 16, 2024

PURPOSE: This rule prevents the newborn infant from contracting gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum or chlamydia ophthalmia neonatorum, or both, during birth from an infected mother.

(1) It shall be the duty of every physician or other person in attendance upon a newborn infant or its mother to instill five-tenths percent (0.5%) erythromycin ophthalmic ointment or drops in single-use tubes or ampules; or tetracycline one percent (1%) ophthalmic ointment or drops in single-use tubes or ampules; or one percent (1%) silver nitrate solution into each eye of the newborn infant immediately after birth and to report this on the birth certificate.

*Original authority: 192.020, RSMo 1939, amended 1945, 1951.

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