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Sodium chloride 0.000855 MEQ/MG Ophthalmic Ointment — RxCUI 1298435

Name: Sodium chloride 0.000855 MEQ/MG Ophthalmic Ointment (RxCUI 1298435)
Creator: Brian Staiger, PharmD

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug

RxCUI 1298435 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 7 FDA products 9 package NDCs Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

This page is curated, coded, and maintained by Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD

Compiled from public NLM RxNorm and FDA (openFDA NDC directory) data sources. Editorial policy

What you’re looking at: the standardized identity of one medicine, as the U.S. drug-data system sees it. Below — every FDA-listed product, package code, price benchmark, and billing code that maps to it.

🗂️ Key Facts

RxCUI1298435

Official nameSodium chloride 0.000855 MEQ/MG Ophthalmic Ointment

Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)

RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept

Also known asNaCl 5 % Ophthalmic Ointment; sodium chloride 5 % Ophthalmic Ointment; NaCl 0.000855 MEQ/MG Ophthalmic Ointment; sodium chloride 50 MG (5 % ) Ophthalmic Ointment

FDA products mapped7

Package NDCs mapped9

Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)11,307 prescriptions · 15 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025

RxNorm release07/06/2026

Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Sodium chloride 0.000855 MEQ/MG Ophthalmic Ointm... Connects

One RxCUI never lives alone. Follow the path from the raw ingredient down to the exact strength-and-form concepts FDA products carry — every stop is a real RxNorm concept with its own identifier. Hover or focus any chip for what it means.

This page's concept Sodium chloride 0.000855 MEQ/MG Ophthalmic Ointment RxCUI 1298435 Semantic clinical drug · SCD

Every web starts here: one RxCUI, one fixed meaning in the RxNorm vocabulary.

Ingredients 1

The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.
- Sodium chloride 9863 IN
Brand names 1

The same medicine's trade names. A brand name alone says nothing about strength or form.
- Muro 128 218492 BN
Dose forms 6

The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.
- Sodium chloride Ophthalmic Ointment 373900 SCDF
- Sodium chloride Ophthalmic Product 1159320 SCDG
- Sodium chloride Ophthalmic Ointment [Muro 128] 750147 SBDF
- Muro 128 Ophthalmic Product 1183885 SBDG
- Ophthalmic Ointment 91344 DF
- Ophthalmic Product 1151135 DFG
Clinical & branded drugs 3

Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.
- Sodium chloride 0.000855 MEQ/MG 1298434 SCDC
- Sodium chloride 0.000855 MEQ/MG Ophthalmic Ointment [Muro 128] 1299626 SBD
- Sodium chloride 0.000855 MEQ/MG [Muro 128] 1299625 SBDC

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 11 of 11 stored related concepts drawn.

These are official RxNorm vocabulary relationships — how concepts name and organize the same medicine. They do not establish therapeutic equivalence or substitutability: two concepts appearing in one web is never a statement that products can be swapped.

🔀 Generic ⇄ Brand Crosswalk

The same medicine has an unbranded (generic) identity and one or more brand-name identities — each with its own RxCUI. This is a naming relationship in RxNorm, not a statement that any two products are substitutable.

Generic (Clinical) Concepts

Sodium chloride 0.000855 MEQ/MG SCDC · 1298434
Sodium chloride Ophthalmic Ointment SCDF · 373900
Sodium chloride Ophthalmic Product SCDG · 1159320

Brand-Name Concepts

Sodium chloride 0.000855 MEQ/MG Ophthalmic Ointment [Muro 128] SBD · 1299626
Sodium chloride 0.000855 MEQ/MG [Muro 128] SBDC · 1299625
Sodium chloride Ophthalmic Ointment [Muro 128] SBDF · 750147
Muro 128 Ophthalmic Product SBDG · 1183885
Muro 128 BN · 218492

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

7 products · 9 package NDCs

9 package NDCs map to RxCUI 1298435 in the current snapshot — up to 50 per page. Each linked NDC opens its full package page.

Package NDC	Package	Brand / generic name	Labeler	Marketing start
00363-7500-50	1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (0363-7500-50) / 3.5 g in 1 TUBE	Walgreens Sodium Chloride Ophthalmic 5 Percent Hypertonicity Eye	Walgreen Company	2019-04-01
00536-1253-91	1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (0536-1253-91) / 3.5 g in 1 TUBE	Sodium Chloride Hypertonicity Ophthalmic	Rugby Laboratories	2020-11-06
11716-0750-00	1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (11716-0750-0) / 3.5 g in 1 TUBE	Sodium Chloride Ophthalmic 5 Percent Hypertonicity Eye	Hanlim	2026-04-04
24208-0385-01	1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (24208-385-01) / 1 g in 1 TUBE	Muro 128	Bausch & Lomb Incorporated	2011-01-01
24208-0385-55	1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (24208-385-55) / 3.5 g in 1 TUBE	Muro 128	Bausch & Lomb Incorporated	2011-01-01
24208-0385-56	2 TUBE in 1 CARTON (24208-385-56) / 3.5 g in 1 TUBE	Muro 128	Bausch & Lomb Incorporated	2011-01-01
59390-0184-50	1 TUBE in 1 BOX (59390-184-50) / 3.5 g in 1 TUBE	Altachlore Sodium Chloride Hypertonicity Ophthalmic 5 Percent	Altaire Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2004-03-30
69842-0285-35	1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (69842-285-35) / 3.5 g in 1 TUBE	Sodium Chloride Hypertonicity	CVS PHARMACY	2020-05-01
73581-0708-35	1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (73581-708-35) / 3.5 mL in 1 TUBE	SODIUM CHLORIDE HYPERTONICITY	YYBA CORP	2024-08-12

Observed labelers: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated (3) · Altaire Pharmaceuticals Inc. (1) · CVS PHARMACY (1) · Hanlim (1) · Rugby Laboratories (1) · Walgreen Company (1) · +1 more — this is the FDA-listed mapping footprint, not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.

🗃️ Sources & Limits

Atlas generation902fddb9-e9c1-4004-bf4c-dba4d51037c7

openFDA export observedJul 14, 2026

RxNorm release07/06/2026

Methodology2026-07-full-catalog-v1

A shared RxCUI does not prove interchangeability. Products mapped to the same concept are not thereby equivalent or substitutable — equivalence is a separate, product-level determination.
Listing here does not establish approval or coverage. Appearing in this snapshot is a data observation, not an FDA approval status or a payer coverage decision.
Missing data never means zero. A silent dataset (no price, no billing code, no utilization) means no observation — not that the real-world value is zero.
Counts describe the mapping footprint. Product, package, and labeler counts are the FDA-listed mapping footprint in this snapshot — not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.

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