This type of wound dressing is highly absorbent and can hold as much as 20 times its weight in moisture.
Dry wound dressing.
You will also need to know how to monitor the wound after you have changed the dressing.
Film dressings are thin flexible sheets of clear polyurethane combining an adhesive coating on one side to allow adherence to the skin.
Let your wound dry out once your wound is cleaned well but it is still weeping let your wound dry out for a little bit.
Alginate dressings are made to offer effective protection for wounds that have high amounts of drainage and burns venous ulcers packing wounds and higher state pressure ulcers.
The adhesive reacts with wound exudate to prevent adhesion to the wound bed while allowing the film to stick to the dry skin surrounding the wound.
It is especially useful in wicking moisture out of deep tunneling areas of a wound.
You can let your wound breathe for a little bit before covering it back with gauze or bandage.
They help clean the wound and remove dead tissue.
Exu dry is a unique one piece wound dressing designed to cover the wound with reduced friction save nursing time and lower total dressing costs.
Non adherent to the wound exu dry is more comfortable for patients during and between dressing changes.
How to change your dressing.
Containing sodium and seaweed fibres these dressings are able to absorb high amounts of fluid plus they are.
The dressing is changed 1 to 3 times a day.
A plain dressing containing no medication applied directly to an incision or a wound to prevent contamination or trauma or to absorb secretions.
Type of wound used for.
Wounds that are dry or mostly dry.
Wound drainage and dead tissue can be removed when you take off the old dressing.
However wound dressings need to be changed every so often to make sure that the dressing is doing its job correctly.
To change a wound dressing you will need to take some time beforehand to prepare.
This step is best to do when you are inside your house and not while you are out and bout surrounded by dust and polluted air.
Keeping the wound area moist is very important in certain types of wound care.
Before you start if you need pain medicine before you change your dressing.
For wounds that need this particularly wounds that need to be debrided sometimes providers will use wet to dry dressings.
This involves soaking gauze or cotton in saline and putting it on the wound.
Any wound with dead tissue.
Your health care provider has covered your wound with a wet to dry dressing.
Wet to dry gauze dressings are often used with open wounds.
Exu dry replaces non adherent dressings gauze and abdominal pads.
A wound dressing helps to protect an injury from infection.
