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FIRST AID:How to dress your wound / cut/ ulcer when there is no one to help you

Thicker DRESSINGS

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Thicker dressings like foams and zetuvit with moderately to highly exduating wounds. These can be harder to tape around curves. They can last 2-7 days. If staining is seen through the dressing at about 50-75% cahnge. A wet dressing smells, can become more painful too.

Wash hands, clean wound with supplies or without supplies. Clean scissors

Thicker dressing are best with cut or wound is weeping e.g. foam, zetuvit. Use paper tape ( if no scissors) or mefix type

A blister or heel wounds can be oozing and needs a moist wound environment to heal

A foam dressing or zetuvit, mesorb, tegaderm can be used in curved areas but may need to be cut around a heel and big toe othese it leaves a fold which can be a area of further pressure

Curve the dressing around and the notch will join together

Tape well top, bottom and side and secure.

HOW TO dress with zetuvit

Crepe Bandage and tubular sock than be used to hold in place

One can also apply a further absorbent dressing like combine or a sanitary pad

Baby nappies can be used to cradle heels at night and also other areas to stop leakage on the bed.

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