WOUND DRESSING KNOW-HOW:
Smarten up on treating the most frequent minor injuries, and find the right wound dressing from a selection of universal and high-tech solutions.

Do not play down a small wound: Every small impairment of your skin deserves attention and the right treatment, so that your skin can heal off perfectly. Fortunately, the most common everyday injuries are minor wounds which can easily be attended to with an adhesive bandage.

 

Whether you have cut yourself while chopping some vegetables, grazed your skin while scratching along a wall or when falling on your hands – a bandage will attend to these minor injuries and help them heal better.

Cuts: A cut is an area of severed skin that has been penetrated with a sharp edge, such as a knife, a small tool or the edge of a sheet of paper (paper cuts are also painful). The wound will often bleed and have slightly dehiscent wound edges.

 

If you’ve suffered a cut or a scratch. The first thing to do is to clean and, if necessary, disinfect the wound and make sure that debris or small objects are removed. If the wound bleeds intensely, such as is sometimes the case with cuts in the face or on a finger, stop the bleeding by applying pressure with a sterile bandage. Depending on where your wound is located, choose a matching wound dressing. For example, minor wounds in the arm can discretely be covered with small Elastoplast Plastic Spots strips. A larger scratched area, such as on the knee, will need a strong bandage such as from the Elastoplast Plastic or Fabric ranges.

Suffering from a blister? If it is still intact, decide if you want to leave it uncovered to let it heal on its own. But if it’s an area where it might get rubbed, such as on your hand or on the heel, you should definitely protect the blister from further friction as soon as possible with a Elastoplast Blister bandage. It will not only cushion the blister, but also prevent the blister roof from breaking so that it can be left to heal off on its own. On broken blisters, you can also apply a Blister bandage as it will provide ideal healing conditions.

Usually, our bandages like Elastoplast Plastic or Fabric that are available in different strip sizes or as dressing length (which can be cut to the desired size) will offer the right coverage for your wound. But depending on where your wound is located, there are better choices, which will offer the ideal shape, size, material or adhesion tailored to your specific needs.

 

Find your ideal bandage in the Elastoplast range.

 

Very small cuts and scrapes can be covered by Plastic Spots, tiny round bandages. Greater patches of skin, such as on knees or mobile parts such as joints which are exposed to a lot of movement and friction are ideally covered with an Elastoplast Fabric strip. Hands and fingers are covered perfectly if you have the Hand Pack at... well, hand.

In order to give your family the best wound care there is, you should stock up on bandages in different shapes and sizes and benefit from the range of selection offered in packs such as Elastoplast Hand Pack containing strips especially suited to fit fingertips, knuckles etc. (Also, see our downloadable list for the perfectly stocked Medicine Cabinet).

Children often fall during sports or playtime, injuring themselves with a graze or a cut. There are child-friendly ways to treat these minor, yet painful injuries, so that misfortunes are quickly forgotten.

 

For scrapes or wounds on knees and elbows: use our especially designed Elastoplast Knee and Elbow with a large pad for better coverage.

 

Teenagers who hurt themselves while doing sports might prefer the durability of Elastoplast Fabric.

Have you never been a great fan of wound dressing because you have sensitive skin? Then you might want to choose a bandage from the extra skin-friendly Elastoplast Sensitive.