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Anyone know about leg ulcers ???

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recall · 13/08/2013 14:47

My Dad has an arterial leg ulcer. It is healing now very slowly despite the intervention of his GP and Practice Nurse Hmm (long bitter story)

Anyway, it is now about 1'' square, and appears to be granulating. It is causing my Dad a lot of pain. We were applying a green dressing (forgot what its called) that purpose of which was to kill bacteria ?

Just went to the Practice Nurse to check it and she changed the dressing to a non adherent dressing, covered with Tegaderm with a foam square in the middle.

I thought that when the wound was granulating it needed a moist/slippy dressing to allow the cells to migrate from the sides to the middle. So is the dressing she has given us appropriate ? Any advice ?

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Rooners · 13/08/2013 14:53

I'm not sure but hope someone knows.

When ds2 had a raw bit of skin from nappy rash, and it was granulating, I used raw egg white. I don't think that's much help for you but it definitely worked for us.

argh at times like this I wish I was good with science.

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recall · 13/08/2013 15:10

Thanks Rooners I was wondering about Honey too ??

I meant to say too that he can't have any compression bandaging because his Claudication is contra indicatory .

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ninjanurse · 13/08/2013 15:27

I used to work in district nursing and this sort of dressing sounds about right from how you describe the wound. honey can make a wound quite wet so is good for desloughing or for infected wounds but I wouldn't use on a dry healing wound.

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recall · 13/08/2013 15:29

Thanks Ninjanurse I'm confused regarding the wound being dry or moist. Shouldn't it be kept moist in order to heal ?

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ninjanurse · 13/08/2013 15:38

if it's dry and healing I wouldn't put a dressing on that would make it moist. a non adherent dressing such as meppilex or N.A. would maintain the right environment for it to heal completely. I would use a secondary dressing as you described. wounds are funny things though, what works on someone won't work on another sometimes nurses have to trial different dressings to find the best one.

Montybojangles · 14/08/2013 08:07

Sounds fine:
www.dressings.org/Dressings/allevyn.she.html

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recall · 14/08/2013 22:36

Thanks, I feel reassured now that he's got the right thing on it

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