The short version
Just 2 companies supply this market — thin enough that a single exit would be felt immediately.
Market view
methylene blue · Solution
2 marketed package NDCs · 2 active manufacturers
Most dispensed: 100 g/100g · Powder · #100 g/bag · 10 mg/mL · Injection · #1 vial/carton / 10 ml in 1 vial · 100 g/100g · Powder · #1000 g/bag · 50 mg/10mL · Injection · #5 vial, single-doses/carton / 10 ml in 1 vial, single-dose
Same drug class
Other molecules FDA puts in Oxidation-Reduction Agent, with whether each is in shortage right now. Same class is not the same drug — substitution is a clinical decision, and this is a supply picture, not a recommendation.
- carbo vegetabilis, anilinum, radium bromatum, millefolium, medulla ossis suis, rna, dna, methylene blue, abrotanum, calcarea oxalica, conium maculatum, euphorbia corollata, euphorbium officinarum· 1 maker
- chondrodendron tomentosum root - clerodendranthus spicatus leaf - equisetum hyemale - escherichia coli - hieracium pilosella flowering top - methylene blue - nitric acid - ononis campestris - plantago major - pork kidney - potassium nitrate - proteus vulgaris - quinhydrone - sarsaparilla - solidago virgaurea flowering top - succinic acid - sus scrofa ureter - sus scrofa urinary bladder -· 1 maker
- hyoscyamine sulfate, methenamine, methylene blue, phenyl salicylate, and sodium phosphate, monobasic, monohydrate· 1 maker
- methenamine, benzoic acid, phenyl salicylate, methylene blue, and hyoscyamine sulfate· 1 maker
- methenamine, sodium phosphate monobasic, phenyl salicylate, methylene blue, and hyoscyamine sulfate· 1 maker
- methenamine, sodium phosphate, monobasic, anhydrous, phenyl salicylate, methylene blue and hyoscyamine sulfate· 1 maker
- methenamine, sodium phosphate, monobasic, methylene blue, and hyoscyamine sulfate· 1 maker
- methenamine, sodium phosphate, monobasic, monohydrate, phenyl salicylate, methylene blue, and hyoscyamine sulfate· 1 maker
- urinary antiseptic antispasmodic· 1 maker
Common questions
- Is Methylene blue in shortage right now?
- No. FDA does not currently list Methylene blue in shortage. This page is rebuilt every morning from FDA's shortage database, so a new posting appears here the day it is published.
- Who makes Methylene blue?
- 33 companies have marketed Methylene blue in the last 30 days, according to the FDA NDC Directory. Every manufacturer and package is listed on this page.
All marketed products
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