Medstock Hydrocolloid Dressing

Medstock Thin Hydrocolloid Dressing is a highly elastic, adhesive dressing embedded with carboxymethyl cellulose hydrophilic granules that help promote a moist wound healing environment. Its elastic, pressure-sensitive adhesive design makes it suitable and easy to apply to most body parts.  

Key Functions and Features: 

• Embedded hydrophilic carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) granules help to maintain a moist environment that promotes wound healing. 
  
• Waterproof barrier against water and bacteria
  
• Facilitates autolytic debridement of the wound
  
• Forms a gel on the wound surface, which assists in maintaining a moist healing environment
  
• Excellent elasticity which provides comfort and flexibility, even over highly mobile areas such as joints
  
• May reduce pain by keeping exposed nerve endings moist

Indications for Use: 

• Suitable for wounds with nil to low exudate 
  
• Preventative management and treatment of stage I and II pressure injuries
  
• Abrasions and grazes
  
• Small, superficial to partial thickness burns
  
• Shallow ulcers where low exudate exists
  
• Skin grafts, donor sites, and surgical wounds
  
• Suitable for necrotic wounds to rehydrate and facilitate debridement 
  
• Scar management