dressings

An absorbent dressing like Mepilex border is required to heal moderate and heavily exuding wounds and preventing bacterial infection. They have an ability to absorb excess discharge of wound and create an ideal healing environment that is highly important to promote the healing process.An absorbent dressing like Mepilex border is required to heal moderate and heavily exuding wounds and preventing bacterial infection. They have an ability to absorb excess discharge of wound and create an ideal healing environment that is highly important to promote the healing process.

What is Mepilex Border Dressing?

Mepilex border is an all-in-one multi-layered foam dressing that maintains a moist healing environment for moderate to highly exuding wounds by absorbing the excess exudate. Safetec layer locks the wound discharge inside the dressing and prevents it from leaking. It also ensures that the dressing comes out easily without causing any skin damage. Once this dressing is applied, there is no requirement of a secondary dressing. It is perfect for treating pressure ulcers, skin tears, and dry wounds.

Every wound should not be treated in a same way. The dressing that you opt for should be able to create an optimal healing condition for the wound. Therefore, you should select the right dressing for any wound. There are some factors that impact the selection of the wound dressing.

• Amount of exudate
• Number of healthy granule tissue (in percentage)
• Risk of infection
• Wound depth

Dressings are classified on the degree of occlusion and absorbency.

Absorptive Dressings

The absorptive dressings are recommended for the exuding wounds. So, the dressing should absorb the extra wound exudate and promote healing otherwise there is a risk of maceration of the surrounding skin.
You should pick either foam or hydrofibre dressings for exuding wounds. Wound Care offers you KerraMax Care and Aquacel

The tubes, stoma devices and other primary wound dressings need to be fixed in the place in order to prevent the risk of infection. For this, a wound dressing retention film is required that is non-irritating to the skin as well as stays on for a long time. Wound Care presents you Opsite Flexifix, a highly extensible and comfortable dressing fixation tape.

What is Opsite Flexifix?

Opsite Flexifix is a transparent adhesive film that comes with a distinctive wound measurement grid. It is used for fixing primary dressing, tubes, leg bags, and stoma devices. With high moisture permeability, it lets excess exudate to evaporate, preventing skin maceration. It is conformable to your body contours for ease of movement.
You can also get Opsite Flexifix Gentle that incorporates all the qualities of Opsite Flexifix and

Allevyn Life is a unique five layer foam dressing that absorbs fluid and re-distributes pressure more evenly than traditional foam dressings. This multi-layered dressing creates a moist healing environment and helps prevent the wound against the bacterial infection. It redistributes pressure more uniformly than common foam dressings. It stays in place and lets the patient take a bath with the dressing on.

What are Allevyn Life Dressings?

ALLEVYN Life Dressings

A retention tape is necessary to hold wound dressings in place to minimize the risk of wound infection. These retention tapes are self-adhesive with non-woven polyester fabric backing. They stick on the skin for longer and also effectively secure gauze, catheters, and drainage tubes. Wound Care offers reliable rapid fixation for wound dressing. Hypafix tape is one such retention tape that is versatile and available in four distinct sizes.

What is Hypafix Tape?

Hypafix tape is an adhesive, non-woven fabric layer to quickly fix the dressing in its place. It ideally sticks around joints and gives an enhanced freedom of motion to the patient. Its air and moisture vapor permeability reduces the risk of maceration and makes it ideal for all skin types. Below mentioned are the different sizes this Hypafix tape comes in.

• Hypafix Tape 2.5cm x 10m Pack Size 1
• Hypafix Tape 5.0cm

A waterproof dressing like Aquacel foam is an effective solution to treat infected to low as well as heavy exuding wounds. It forms a protective layer on the wound to prevent it from infection and supports healing.

What is Aquacel Foam?

Aquacel Foam is a multilayer dressing that consists of a waterproof polyurethane outer film and soft absorbent pad. This pad consists of a polyurethane foam that absorbs excess moisture to minimize the risk of maceration. Its Hydrofiber layer turns into a soft gel on contact with wound exudate to create a moist healing environment. It sticks to the surrounding skin easily with a silicone adhesive border. This effective dressing is also designed with silver to heal infected wounds. The Aquacel foam comes in:

• Aquacel Foam Adhesive

Absorbent dressings are designed to heal heavily exuding wounds and protect them from environmental bacteria. They absorb a large amount of exudate and seal them inside. They provide a good wound-healing environment and speed up the healing process. Wound care offers you an effective healing solution for heavily exuding wounds, KerraMax Care Dressings.

What is KerraMax Care Dressing?

Kerramax Care Dressing is a superabsorbent dressing that reduces the amount of MMPs and exudate. It shields the wound from bacteria and creates an excellent wound healing environment. This soft and comfortable dressing is ideal for use under a medium compression bandage. It comes with KerraMax Care Border Dressingsto keep it secured in place. The adhesive borders lock exudate inside the dressing and prevent leakage

The Comfeel Plus Dressings have smart pores that help regulate the moisture environment of the wound. These are thin and flexible solution for sealing and protecting wounds. WoundCare brings to you Comfeel Plus Transparent Dressings and many more to provide you relief from cuts, burns, injuries, and wounds of all types.

What are Comfeel Plus Transparent Dressings?

Comfeel Plus Dressings are non-adhesive and have a thin semipermeable polyurethane top film. These form a viscous gel that absorbs exudate on coming in contact with it. However, these do not adhere to the wound. As these are transparent these aids wound measurement. These can be used for management of no-to-low exuding chronic wounds and superficial acute wounds in the final stages of wound healing.

Benefits of Comfeel Plus Transparent Dressings:-

1) Conforms and Flexes with the body’s natural contours

2) Self-regulates moisture levels with expanding and contracting pores

3) Protects nerve endings and sensitive tissues and does not contain alginate

4) It is transparent and hence the process of healing can be monitored closely without being disturbed

5) Has balance adhesive formulation allowing for gentle removal

6) These are not made of natural rubber latex and does not leave behind any residue

7) Keeps bacteria and water from entering the wound due to semi-permeable top film

8) Can stay on wounds for more than 7 days

Where to use Comfeel Plus Transparent Dressings?

1) Wounds with no or low exudate

2) Pressure ulcers, leg ulcers, superficial burns, superficial partial-thickness burns, donor sites, postoperative wounds, skin tears, and skin abrasions

3) Can be used as a protection against epithelialized tissue or as a secondary dressing

Where not to use Comfeel Plus Transparent Dressings?

1) Not to be used for third-degree burns

2) Do not use on exposed muscle, tendon or bone

3) Not for use on deep, partial-thickness or full-thickness burns
Precautions to be taken before using Comfeel Plus Transparent Dressings

4) These dressings must be removed prior to radiation treatment (X-rays, ultrasonic treatment, diathermy, and microwaves)

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Healing of a wound is both dynamic as well as a complex process. Advancement of technology in the medical industry has led to the development of more than 3000 products for treating a different type of wounds. Selecting the right kind of dressing for the wound is a crucial step towards healing it. Therefore, it becomes important to understand the type of injury, its size, location, and severity.

While selecting the right kind of wound healing dressing it is really important to select one with a multitude of benefits. Hydrocolloid dressings are bandage with a plethora of benefits.

When it comes to proper wound healing, physicians have an extensive range of dressings and bandages at disposal. From modern day to traditional materials, there is a great number of wound dressings, and among them, one of the effective ones which is prominently used is hydrocolloid dressing. It is a wafer type of dressing that contains gel-forming agents held within its adhesive compound. The compound is laminated on the foam or film, which is generally made of polyurethane. Hydrocolloid dressings are advanced wound dressings that are waterproof and self-adhering. These dressings are transparent, opaque, biodegradable, and non-breathable. They are designed with the aim to provide faster heal times and less risk of accompanying infection.