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Any nurses, or anyone who can advise me on dressings

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mosschops30 · 01/01/2010 19:10

Yes i know im a nurse, but dont have anythingn to do with dressings and i dont remember much from my training in the community. So can anyone help me, have a heavily exudating c-section wound, was just covered with a dressing pad by midwife, so i called my district nurses who said Inafine would be better, so i got some from the doctor.
Went back to hospital for dressing change and suggested it might need something other than dressing pad and they put a thick mepilex on and a dressing pad over and said that i should leave it as long as possible but can change my own dressings if i need to before monday, anyway there is now strikethrough on mepilex so i need to re-dress it but dont know whether to use the inadine or mepilex?

Any advice would be good, I dont even know who i can call as midwives are obviously not wound specialists and i suppose the district nurses are doing emergency calls only.

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moaningminniewhingesagain · 01/01/2010 19:14

My dressings knowledge is a bit rusty but I would either add another absorbant dressing on the top is it is striking through, or ring the DN, I think this is absolutely appropriate use of their skills tbh.

mosschops30 · 01/01/2010 22:59

thank you i did phone the dn's and they were great, wound is now cleaned and re dressed

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alypaly · 02/01/2010 00:08

mepilex hydrocolloid or tielle would be fine.They are for moderate exudatation.Is the exudate smelly or clear.

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