PERAFFIN GAUZE DRESSING

Parraffin gauze is ideal for open wounds where there is a risk of the gauze sticking to the wound - thus delaying the healing process.

This gazue allows the wound to drain freely into another second dressing.

Uusally it is a sterile gauze impregnated with a substance eg a petroleum .

This allows less adherence to the wound.

Features:

• Wide-mesh dressing made of cotton gauze covered with paraffin.

• Structure of the carrier material allows exudate to be freely drained to the covering secondary dressing.

• Covering with a layer of paraffin reduces risk of adhesion to the wound and allows a painless change of dressing.

• Natural properties of paraffin allow for using the dressing in combination.

• Suitable for minor burns and scalds, donor and recipient skin graft sites, skin loss wounds, lacerations, and abrasions

• Hypoallergenic

• Single use

Indication:

• keeping proper moisture in the wound

• preventing the wound edges from drying and maceration

• recommended for uninfected wounds.

• dressing chronic wounds: bedsores, ulcers, etc.

• treating surgical wounds, burn wounds, places of injections, skin transplants and damaged skin

• protection against radiation skin damage