Wet to dry gauze dressings are often used with open wounds.
Dry wound dressing.
For wounds that need this particularly wounds that need to be debrided sometimes providers will use wet to dry dressings.
This involves soaking gauze or cotton in saline and putting it on the wound.
You can let your wound breathe for a little bit before covering it back with gauze or bandage.
These dressings absorb excess liquid and create a gel that helps to heal the wound or burn more quickly.
Follow any instructions you are given on how to change the dressing.
Wounds that are dry or mostly dry.
Film dressings are thin flexible sheets of clear polyurethane combining an adhesive coating on one side to allow adherence to the skin.
This type of wound dressing is highly absorbent and can hold as much as 20 times its weight in moisture.
You will also need to know how to monitor the wound after you have changed the dressing.
The adhesive reacts with wound exudate to prevent adhesion to the wound bed while allowing the film to stick to the dry skin surrounding the wound.
Any wound with dead tissue.
A wound dressing helps to protect an injury from infection.
Before you start if you need pain medicine before you change your dressing.
The dressing is changed 1 to 3 times a day.
Exu dry replaces non adherent dressings gauze and abdominal pads.
It is especially useful in wicking moisture out of deep tunneling areas of a wound.
Non adherent to the wound exu dry is more comfortable for patients during and between dressing changes.
To change a wound dressing you will need to take some time beforehand to prepare.
Type of wound used for.
How to change your dressing.
A plain dressing containing no medication applied directly to an incision or a wound to prevent contamination or trauma or to absorb secretions.
This step is best to do when you are inside your house and not while you are out and bout surrounded by dust and polluted air.
Containing sodium and seaweed fibres these dressings are able to absorb high amounts of fluid plus they are.
They help clean the wound and remove dead tissue.
Wound drainage and dead tissue can be removed when you take off the old dressing.
With this type of dressing a wet or moist gauze dressing is put on your wound and allowed to dry.
Let your wound dry out once your wound is cleaned well but it is still weeping let your wound dry out for a little bit.
However wound dressings need to be changed every so often to make sure that the dressing is doing its job correctly.
Your health care provider has covered your wound with a wet to dry dressing.
