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 lifts off without taking the new tissue with it, which is the whole game in a wound that is actually healing. Routine cleaning is saline rather than antiseptic, because antiseptics are cytotoxic to the cells doing the work. Tapes that hold without removing skin when they come away.
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.