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Brand-name prescription medicine

Isolyte S

Generic name: Sodium chloride, sodium gluconate, sodium acetate, potassium chloride and magnesium chloride

FDA application holder: B Braun

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Quick answers

What is Isolyte S?
Isolyte S is a brand name of Sodium chloride, sodium gluconate, sodium acetate, potassium chloride and magnesium chloride, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Isolyte S product in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Isolyte S?
B Braun holds the FDA application for Isolyte S (NDA019711, approved September 29, 1989).
Is there a generic or store brand of Isolyte S?
Other products of Sodium chloride, sodium gluconate, sodium acetate, potassium chloride and magnesium chloride are listed with the FDA, but none in exactly the same strength and form as a Isolyte S product.
Has Isolyte S been recalled?
No recall linked to Isolyte S products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Isolyte S is

Each Isolyte S product as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, by active ingredient, strength and form, with its official label. “Same medicine, other names” counts the other products with exactly the same active ingredients, strength and form (generic versions, store brands and other brands); inactive ingredients can differ.

Sodium chloride, sodium gluconate, sodium acetate, potassium chloride and magnesium chloride · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
magnesium chloride 0.03% · potassium chloride 0.037% · sodium acetate 0.37% · sodium chloride 0.53% · sodium gluconate 0.5%
injection, solution (intravenous)
Isolyte S None listed —

Its page lists every product and company, the FDA label’s uses and boxed warning, approvals, shortages and recalls: Sodium chloride, sodium gluconate, sodium acetate, potassium chloride and magnesium chloride →

FDA approval

  • NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.
FDA applications of Isolyte S products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
NDA019711B BraunSeptember 29, 19891

Companies that list Isolyte S

The company named on the package (holder, repackager or distributor), as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, with its number of Isolyte S products.

Recalls

No recall linked to Isolyte S products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports.

Sources

  1. NDC Directory (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  2. Drugs@FDA (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  3. Drug labeling (SPL, openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  4. Drug recall enforcement reports (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 27, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  5. NADAC (National Average Drug Acquisition Cost) 2026 — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), data.medicaid.gov, list of November 4, 2026, retrieved November 7, 2026

Which names get a brand page: a name the NDC Directory lists for a medicine, held by one company (the FDA application holder, or the company named on most of its products), that is not just a description, and that is not the only product of its medicine.

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