A wound dressing helps to protect an injury from infection.
Dry wound dressing.
Before you start if you need pain medicine before you change your dressing.
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.
Wet to dry gauze dressings are often used with open wounds.
Non adherent to the wound exu dry is more comfortable for patients during and between dressing changes.
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.
A plain dressing containing no medication applied directly to an incision or a wound to prevent contamination or trauma or to absorb secretions.
This involves soaking gauze or cotton in saline and putting it on the wound.
Wounds that are dry or mostly dry.
Exu dry replaces non adherent dressings gauze and abdominal pads.
However wound dressings need to be changed every so often to make sure that the dressing is doing its job correctly.
How to change your dressing.
Your health care provider has covered your wound with a wet to dry dressing.
For wounds that need this particularly wounds that need to be debrided sometimes providers will use wet to dry dressings.
These dressings absorb excess liquid and create a gel that helps to heal the wound or burn more quickly.
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.
With this type of dressing a wet or moist gauze dressing is put on your wound and allowed to dry.
Keeping the wound area moist is very important in certain types of wound care.
You will also need to know how to monitor the wound after you have changed the dressing.
Containing sodium and seaweed fibres these dressings are able to absorb high amounts of fluid plus they are.
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 dressing is changed 1 to 3 times a day.
Any wound with dead tissue.
Film dressings are thin flexible sheets of clear polyurethane combining an adhesive coating on one side to allow adherence to the skin.
Type of wound used for.
This type of wound dressing is highly absorbent and can hold as much as 20 times its weight in moisture.
They help clean the wound and remove dead tissue.
Wound drainage and dead tissue can be removed when you take off the old dressing.
Follow any instructions you are given on how to change the dressing.
It is especially useful in wicking moisture out of deep tunneling areas of a wound.
