Bustercluck
09-08-2020, 12:58 AM
I knocked over a jetboil on my ankle about 30km and 4 days into a 9 day hunt and burned it fairly badly. The skin came off immediately on my ankle and burned the inner arch and toes of the same foot. I cleaned it up pretty good and put a non stick pad on it during the day, rinsed it in glacial water every morning and night and tried to let it air dry in camp in the late afternoon to get it to scab over. But that’s not why I started this thread.
For some reason when I got home and put some polysporin on it and had a shower it started to look a little infected so I went to the hospital to get it cleaned up properly and see if I needed some antibiotics.
The nurse who cleaned up the wound put one of these bandages on and gave me 4 more to use over the next week or so. She said they could stay on for 3 days at a time, fully waterproof and had a non-stick gauze built in. Just thought I’d share in case someone wanted to throw them in their kit. I haven’t looked at where to buy these, but I know someone who works at the hospital and is sourcing some for me.
https://i.imgur.com/wb1ld5S.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Pan3CUP.jpg
For some reason when I got home and put some polysporin on it and had a shower it started to look a little infected so I went to the hospital to get it cleaned up properly and see if I needed some antibiotics.
The nurse who cleaned up the wound put one of these bandages on and gave me 4 more to use over the next week or so. She said they could stay on for 3 days at a time, fully waterproof and had a non-stick gauze built in. Just thought I’d share in case someone wanted to throw them in their kit. I haven’t looked at where to buy these, but I know someone who works at the hospital and is sourcing some for me.
https://i.imgur.com/wb1ld5S.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Pan3CUP.jpg