Product Description
Excellent natural dressing for use on moderately to heavily exuding wounds.
LUOFUCON® Alginate Dressing is made of natural fibers derived from seaweed. It is designed to be highly, fast absorbent. Alginate absorbs wound exudates and form a gel-like covering over the wound, maintaining a moist wound healing environment with accelerates healing process and helps to stop bleeding. The gel-like surface also keeps the dressing from adhering to the wound so it is painless removal.
Mechanism of Action
When applied to a wound there will be an ion-exchange between the calcium in the dressing and sodium from the exudate, forming a soluble calcium/sodium alginate gel. The free calcium ions in the wound will amplify the clotting cascade, and it has been reported that the calcium ions reduce the bleeding during various surgical interventions. The interaction with the wound exudates will create a protective gel that has occlusive, nonadherent and moisturizing properties.
* References: Kuen Yong Lee, David J. Mooney. Alginate: properties and biomedical applications. Prog Polym Sci. 2012 Jan; 37(1): 106–126.
Cavity Packing
The flexible and gentle soft fiber rope is ideal for the use of cavitly wound packing.
Highly Absorbent
It is capable of absorbing 10-20 times its weight and mantaining moist wound healing environment.
How Does Alginate Dressing work?
Highly absorbent;
Maintain moist environment;
Easy application and removal;
Excellent wet strength.
Indications
Surface trauma
Moderately to heavily draining wounds, cavity wounds
Pressure sores
Diabetic ulcer
Venous/arterial leg ulcer
Donor sites
Post-surgical wounds
Reminders
This product is single use. Do not use if package is damaged.
Do not use this product to dry wound.
Do not use this product when the wound is infected.
LUOFUCON® Alginate Dressing is not recommended to be applied to wounds that need surgical to achieve hemostasis.
If redness or allergic symptoms appear, please stop using this product.
Single product can not be stayed on wound for more than 7 days, and the product using continuously can not be exceed 30 days.
Tips for using
Clean the wound with sterile water or saline solution and dry the surrounding skin gently.
Choose the right size of dressing according to wound area. If necessary, cut dressing to size using sterile scissors.
A secondary dressing is necessary when using calcium alginates.
If the wound appears dry, saturate the dressing with sterile saline prior to removal.
