Hydrogen Peroxide: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Hydrogen Peroxide is a medicine sold in the U.S. under one brand. Below: what the FDA label says, every product that contains it, what the pills look like, and its recall record.
Key facts
- Available as
- Solution
- Sold as
- Eskata
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
- What the pharmacy pays
- about $0.01 per ml — not your price
Every hydrogen peroxide product we track (1)
Same active ingredient — different manufacturer, form, price and FDA recall record. That last one is what our independent score measures.
Only one: Eskata.
Hydrogen Peroxide recalls
From the FDA Enforcement database. A recall covers specific lots — not the drug as a whole.
[CORRECT FRONT PANEL] Hydrogen Peroxide Topical Solution
Labeling; Label Mixup; some bottles have an incorrect back label indicating 91% Isopropyl Alcohol
Consumer Product Partners, LLC · Mar 7, 2025
Hydrogen Peroxide Oral Rinse
CGMP Deviations: products may not conform to the labeled specifications.
Den-Mat Holdings, LLC · Jan 16, 2024
What people report to the FDA about hydrogen peroxide
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 516 reports naming hydrogen peroxide, and the FDA flagged 82% of those reports as serious. The effects reported most often — leaving out reports about overdose, misuse or the condition being treated, which dominate the raw list for common medicines:
- nausea32 reports
- fatigue28 reports
- vomiting26 reports
- dyspnoea24 reports
- rash23 reports
- headache22 reports
- pruritus20 reports
- pyrexia18 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean hydrogen peroxide caused the effect — anyone can file one, and many describe people taking several medicines for several conditions. Crucially there is no denominator: FAERS does not record how many people took the drug, so these counts cannot be turned into “X% of patients” — a bigger number often just means a more widely used or more talked-about drug. Duplicates exist, and publicity drives reporting. For what is actually established, read the FDA label section above.
Source: openFDA drug/event (FAERS), retrieved July 25, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
Can you take hydrogen peroxide with other medicines?
It depends on the medicine. We check it against the FDA labels rather than guessing: our interaction checker searches each drug's own label for the other and quotes what it says, naming the section it came from. Run hydrogen peroxide against whatever else you take — and remember that a label not naming a drug is not the same as that combination being safe.
What forms does hydrogen peroxide come in?
Across the brands we track, hydrogen peroxide is currently marketed as solution, per the FDA's National Drug Code Directory. Each form is dosed differently — follow the label for the exact product you were prescribed.
Is there a generic hydrogen peroxide?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled hydrogen peroxide product. That does not always mean none exists — it means none appears under a generic name in the FDA data we track. Ask your pharmacist.
Has hydrogen peroxide been recalled?
The FDA's Enforcement database lists 2 recall records whose product description mentions hydrogen peroxide. The most recent: [CORRECT FRONT PANEL] Hydrogen Peroxide Topical Solution (Mar 7, 2025). A recall applies to specific lots, not to the drug as a whole — check the record for the affected lot numbers.
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- pharmaranks. (2026, July 24). Hydrogen Peroxide: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/hydrogen-peroxide
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- “Hydrogen Peroxide: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/hydrogen-peroxide.
We summarise public FDA and NIH sources — for a clinical claim, cite the primary source we link to as well.
Sources: FDA openFDA drug label, National Drug Code Directory, and Enforcement (recall) database. This page reproduces public FDA data and is not medical advice. Dosing is set by your prescriber.
Read the full FDA label for hydrogen peroxide on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.