Wound care
What a treatment room reaches for, in quantities that make sense for one person or for a clinic. The upgrade over a chemist plaster is the contact layer. A non adherent dressing has a contact layer the tissue does not stick to, so it lifts off rather than pulling at what is underneath. An ordinary adhesive pad does not, which is why a dressing change with the wrong pad is the part people dread. Saline is the routine choice for cleaning and antiseptics are kept for when they are indicated, which is a question for whoever is managing the wound rather than a rule to take off a shelf. The range covers both. Sterile gauze swabs for cleaning and packing, island dressings where you want the pad and the adhesive in one piece, and conforming bandages to hold a dressing on a limb that moves. Fixation tape that holds without removing skin when it comes away, which matters more the older or thinner the skin is. A workplace first aid kit for the rooms that have to have one. Storing supplies correctly matters more here than most people expect: a sterile dressing is only sterile while its pouch is intact and in date, and a box kept in a hot car is not the box you think it is.
Prices are indicative while the range is being finalised, and you cannot check out yet. Open any product to pre-order it, which takes an email address and no payment, and the price and the pack size are confirmed before anything is charged.
Not sure which one you need?
Three plain questions and the Gauge Finder tells you the thickness, the length and how many. Nothing you answer is stored.
Match the dressing to the moisture
A dry wound wants something that will not stick to it when it comes off, which is what a non-adherent dressing is for. A wound with light exudate suits hydrocolloid. More exudate than that wants foam, which absorbs and cushions at once.
Gauze is for cleaning, packing and absorbing, not for sitting on a healing surface, because it dries into it and takes the surface with it when you pull.
Holding it on
Tape for a flat surface, cohesive bandage for an awkward shape, crepe where you want light support as well. Cohesive sticks to itself and not to skin or hair, which is the reason to pay more for it.
Questions about wound care
If yours is not here, the contact form routes to the person who can answer it.
What is the difference between a non-adherent and an island dressing?
When should I use a hydrocolloid dressing?
Do you sell sterile and non-sterile gauze?
Know when it lands
We are still building the range. Leave an address and we will tell you what has come in, without making a project of it.
Restock notices and new guides. Two or three emails a month at most, one click to stop, and we do not sell or share the address.