Learn to dress your own wound when your have no help at home in many languages .
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You have taped your dressing down or wish to bandage not using any tape on your skin. Follow the pcitures. Don't pull to tight. If tight it will hurt or skin below area will go red or white.
Use a tubifast blue or tubigrip over crepe or sohesive gauze bandage
Bandaging over dressings with no tape
Bandaging toe and fingers
Bandaging with gauze
etc
Use a menua or buttons
If you have a crepe bandage, sofban or cohesive bandage, tape may not be needed to adhere a dressing a top of the foot wound, arm, scalp. This is beneficial for those with sensitive, thin or wet skin or allergic to all tape.
Apply dressing with or without tape and slightly stretch crepe bandaging
Do 2-3 layers around foot overlapping by a half and then go up to ankle, otherwise it may roll off in bed.
Roll bandage around ankle once, then once around ankle, and then around forefoot again. NO wrinkles in bandage especially under foot please, or you might get a blister due to pressure
Secure with paper tape or sellotape. Add a tubular bandage over top to stop it all rolling off or use tubular bandage instead of crepe or gauze roll.
BANDAGING TOE AND FINGERS
Roll a gauze bandage 1 inch around the toes. No tape is needed in this technique
Rolling around 2 toes ensures you wont pull the bandage too tight around a single toe
Wind the bandage over your finger at tip of toe so it is loose
Having the bandage with a little give at the tip ensures no pressure, and the toe may lengthen when standing. If no looseness, the bandage may become too tight.
Roll bandage gently around a couple of times with only a little stretch that 20%. Ensure there are no wrinkles.
Wrapping a finger with gauze bandage
Apply dressing beneath. You may wish to tape at the end. Wind over finger , but not too tight.
Bandaging legs
Wrap the leg with crepe bandage. You will see it is too loose and has wrinkles. This may unravel in bed.
A loose bandage make it difficult to pull over a tubigrip or tubifast which is often used to stop crepe from unravelling and give some compression. Measure the tubigrip and Fold tubigrip so a 1/3 is inside out and slide onto foot portion. This stops some roll back of the dressing or crepe. Or you can use a stocking donner
pull tubigrip over crepe bandage. This can stay in place 2-5 days
Perform a 1 twist at toes before pulling back over foot if you wish to cover toes
BANDAGING CURVED AREA :HEELS, ELBOWS
Tape across with paper tape and then the sides, or use another fabric tape. Heel dressing tend to move around, but elbows tend to stay in place better
Bandaging around breasts
Bandaging under arm pits or breasts without or with gentle can be made easier by using tubifast G or crop tops