20/10/2026
Since July, our resident medical director has been clear about one thing. If a wound can be dressed, dress it. This is how he does it.
Start with one good clean. Wash the wound with warm water and a little bubble bath, rinse it off completely and pat it dry with a clean towel. After that first clean, no more washing is needed. Spray Trifectiv® Plus Wound & Burn Care over the area and let it air-dry for a few minutes. Then spray five millilitres onto three to five sheets of clean woven gauze (it doesn't need to be sterile) until the gauze is wet but not drenched, and lay it over the wound. Hold it in place with a crepe bandage or a breathable dressing such as Primapore, and change it, preferably, every day or every other day.
If a wound really can't hold a dressing, spray it every thirty minutes instead and let it dry naturally. A chronic wound also gets rinsed under running water for two to three minutes at least twice a week, before the new dressing goes on. The easiest way to do this is when you shower.
A few things stay out. No saline, chlorhexidine, iodine or other disinfectants with it or after it, no waterproof or silver dressings and no petroleum jelly. (The only exception is a single layer of non-medicated paraffin gauze under the wet gauze when a dressing is over stitches, on a child's burn or on a clean wound that bleeds when the dressing comes off.) And if it isn't improving within two to four days, see your doctor or nurse.
