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FIRST AID: How to dress your wound / cut/ ulcer with a dressing pack!

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Learn to dress your own wound when you have no help at home, choose your language

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You are busy or rushing to a family or friend member to help dress a wound, whether it's an injury or longstanding, and need a quick reference guide from your phone.

How to clean a wound with a dressing pack

Wash you hands 20 sec with with under running water and dry hands well.. Gather your supplies, A dressing pack ,salt water( pre or home made) dressings..

Alcohol wipe your hands with sanitiser. Open pack and lay out dressing. see photos below.

Take dressing pack out of the plastic wrap a and pull tab to open. Touch only the outer edges of the pack

Use top tweezers to pull open contents of the pack

Pour saline into tray, and you can pour Betadine into one of the smaller compartments

Put the plastic folded drape or paper drape under the area of the body being dressed.

Example of a wound spray to clean wound instead of saline.

There are a few wound washes on the market that have surfactants to help clean wound and soften and remove fibrin or jellified layer. Each company promotes their magic wound wash.

Most need to be left on wound for 15 minutes and then wounds cleansed with gauze. The key is still a vigorous scrub to remove built up wound fluid waste and bacteria. It is the physical cleaning that will get rid of bacteria ,fibrin and some slough and reduces need for antiseptics and even antibiotics You reduce infection because you are scrubbing some of the bacteria and its food source into your gauze. Change your gauze frequently

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Dip a gauze into saline and pop into a side tray. Leave one dry, so you can dry around the wound, otherwise tape won't stick. Pick up the wet gauze with one forcep and transfer it to the forcep that is washing the wound. This is your contaminated forcep.

Wash in a round circle. If not sore and a longstanding wound, especially a leg, you could use moderate pressure. DON'T WIPE FROM OUT TO IN as you push your skin bugs into the wound. Drop dirty gauze at the furthest edge of the dressing rap

Betadine or chlorhexidine can be poured into a smaller tray If a few wounds or a lot of cleaning, extra gauze is useful.

Wash wound with one gauze as with saline. Use another for around the wound. You can lie the soaked Betadine or chlorhexidine gauze against the wound for 5 minutes to kill germs. Then remove and dry the wound with a dry gauze. Dont soak your wound or it gets too soggy in the surrounding area, unless you are soaking off grime, dirt.

Pour saline onto foot in the shower from a container or bucket

try to use water with a hand hose in the shower or bath to wash wound

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