Calcium Alginate Dressings
Category ChitoTech Products / Wound Healing Products
Introduction Product
Alginate dressings are absorbent, nonadherent, biodegradable, nonwoven fibers derived from brown seaweed.
Description of Product
Alginate dressings are absorbent, nonadherent, biodegradable, nonwoven fibers derived from brown seaweed. They are composed of calcium salts of alginic acid. Calcium ions in Alginate dressings when in contact with sodium-rich solutions such as wound drainage, undergo an exchange for the sodium ions, forming a soluble sodium alginate gel. This gel maintains a moist wound bed and supports a therapeutic healing environment.
Alginates can absorb fluid 20 times their own weights.
Main component:
Calcium Alginate
Features & benefits:
Does not adhere to the delicate healing tissue and can be easily removed,
Creates a moist wound environment at the wound surface,
Can absorb fluid 20 times their own weights,
Biocompatible:
No irritation, no sensitivity according to ISO 10993-10
No toxicity according to ISO 10993-5
Indications
- Highly to moderate secreting cavity or tunneling ulcer with no necrotic tissue including: bedsore, Leg ulcer, diabetic wound and second degree burns.
- Pilonidal sinus
- Surgical incisions, wound dehiscence, tunnels.
- Sinus tracts, skin graft donor sites, exposed tendons.
Warnings
- Alginates are contraindicated for dry wounds, eschar-covered wounds, surgical implantation, or on third-degree burns1.
- Calcium alginate dressing should be changed when it formed to gel. In early stages, change dressing every 24 hour then by reducing exudates and by beginning of healing process, it should be changed every 48 hour.
Instructions
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