Your questions – our answers
FAQ
Unfortunately no. The “envelope” around the absorbent core must remain intact to prevent superabsorbent granules from entering the wound. This would be physiologically harmless, but still not nice, as it would entail an additional effort to clean the wound with a sterile wound irrigation.
Yes. The body warms the dressing while the blend of cellulose and sodium polyacrylate maintains a moist but not wet wound environment. The curea P1 and curea P2 products with a breathable backing (BTBS) additionally regulate evaporation and thus store body heat.
An exhausted dressing will become uncomfortably thick and discolour to match the colour of the exudate.
For licensing reasons, the maximum duration of application was limited to seven days. The real duration of application always depends on the amount of exudate released by the wound. As a general rule, a highly absorbent dressing should not be used to its maximum capacity, as this can make it very thick and heavy. In mobile patients, the wound may then deteriorate if the dressing rubs on the wound due to movement.
Maceration only occurs when the dressing has been applied for too long. Therefore, a polyacrylate wound dressing should not be used to its maximum absorption capacity. We recommend using e.g. a 10×10 cm dressing only up to approx. 50 g, so that the dressing is not too heavy and not too moist.
No, because the sodium polyacrylate contained in the dressing stores excess moisture, the wound edges remain dry or become only slightly moist.
Yes, you can. Sodium polyacrylate binds germs that are “flushed” into the dressing by the exudate. By being trapped and remaining in the dressing, the germs starve and are then removed by the next dressing change. By the way, this effect works with all germs, not only with Pseudomonas. If you know that the wound is colonised with Pseudomonas, we recommend paying special attention to the formation of a biofilm. If necessary, the wound must be cleaned mechanically to remove this biofilm.
To prevent the dressing from sticking to the wound, curea P2 has an integrated 3D wound spacer grid that prevents the dressing from sticking and allows atraumatic dressing changes (even for low exuding wounds). If, on the other hand, soft debridement of the wound is required (e.g. at the beginning of the exudation phase), we recommend curea P1 wound dressings, which, due to their soft but coarse-textured non-woven wound side, support the basic wound cleansing during dressing changes.
Yes, our dressings work up to a resting pressure of 46 mmHg (equivalent to compression class 3 to 4).
curea wound dressings are manufactured entirely in Germany. The self-adhesive variants are processed in Ireland.
A body can develop hypersensitivities (allergies) to almost all substances – therefore also to materials of the wound dressing. These are generally polypropylene, polyethylene, sodium polyacrylate and cellulose. In the case of self-adhesive wound dressings, the adhesives (acrylate or silicone) can also cause allergies.
No, activated carbon is completely harmless. Carbon is a main component of our body and cannot be biochemically utilised by our organism. Activated charcoal is administered as tablets or suspension for detoxification, for example.
No, bacteria or germs are bound to the activated carbon by surface forces (Van der Waals interaction). This prevents them from getting back into the wound.
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