Gabe had a pressure sore on his butt that he couldn't kick. We tried all the heavy duty "derm" dressings. We found out that sweat and the general bunching up of the buns when sitting and dressings falling off early kept the sore alive and well. So we tried Tegederm. Yes, the thin stuff. It worked. I think it worked because it followed the butt crease in sitting and laying and the skin could breath easy so it could stay on for the optimal 7 day period.
Most of the stuff I've read and info at conferences says that wet to dry dressings actually keeps the site from healing. Every time you change a dressing it kills and rips away the new tissue. So whatever dressing you use- foam, the many different duoderms, silver laced dressing, miracle mist etc- they need to stay on long enough for healthy tissue to form and get established. Have you been to a wound care clinic, had wound care nurses help, or had a wound care docs help? The PVA has a great book on SCI. It has a lot of good info on pressure sores & Treatment. A good source is also the American Spina Bifida Assoc. A lot of individuals with SB fight with sores their whole life. Their parents fight for better care when they are young. So they get pretty good $ to investigate pressure sores. I went to a conference about 15 years ago and went to a session on presentation sores- wet to dry was out and the derms, foams and sprays were in. From the care Gabe has been receiving I think it is still the case. Hope this helps, Lana Gabe's mom 10 years post, C4-5 -----Original Message----- From: Liz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 7:25 AM To: William Willis; [email protected] Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] sore miracle mist is getting rave reviews ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Willis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:38 PM Subject: [QUAD-L] sore > I have a pressure sore on my ol' weary ass that I have been treating for > over three years. It gets neither better nor worse and has never become > infected.(thankfully). It is about four in across but not deep at all. It > also has good blood flow. After three years it has grown to love me, cause > it certainly won't go away. Anybody got any ideas short of an assectomy? (I > do wet-to-dry twice a day) > > >
