Dressings wont stay on armpit!!!

[CaitrionaAnne]

What advice does anyone have for keeping dressings on in the armpit? Today my bandage keeps coming off due to sweating and with an open wound, i need to keep it sterile! Does anyone have any tips? At my wits end!!

Tegaderm dressings have always been great for me. Maybe check if one would be suitable for your type of wound?

DS (18) recently had to dress an armpit wound. We bought some large adhesive dressings from the pharmacist, which adhered very well. I'll find one and post a photo.

Here you go. They were 20p each and we had to ask for them at the counter.

@anunseemlylovefordustin Are they the ones they use when putting a canula in?

@Fozzleyplum These are the ones they use when they pack the wound but after 2 days, its starting to come off due to sweating and now im afraid of infection! My current medical tape wont stick it down!!

You need a larger dressing than you think as you need the adhesive to stick to the dry skinnier your arm or clavicle rather than in the pit.

@andwhat That makes sense. I think the last nurse only had really small ones so used two of them. Ill be making sure they use bigger ones next time! Thanks

With DS, we changed the dressing regularly - about once a day.