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Dress your wound cut ulcer with pictures
Learn to dress your own wound beyond band aids, when your have no help at home in many languages.
Practical informational site with links to supplies, pressure offloading, virtual medical /allied health consults.
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Dressing Guide By Professionals
You have landed on this page as you need a quick guide, or in a panic on how to cover or re dress your or a loved one cut or wound.
Dressing cuts, ulcers, wound, lacerations, grazes has become more difficult for those who have no help at home, too far from medical centre, lockdowns or are in the wilderness, bush, road. These dressings are suitable for those with diabetes, pressure sores and poor blood flow.
Any diabetic ulcer should be linked into a wound centre. These pages are a cheat sheet help guide to manage in between visits, at home, especially during recurrent lockdowns.
Find Medical Consults Online
All you require is a phone to flip through pictures quickly to make the wound or cut safe, and then look at getting more supplies or medical advice.
Online Medical consults may be available in your country. Please click page menu above. Other medical disciplines will be added. Online consults especially for chronic conditions are easier in global pandemic times, or lack of access to doctors due to no appointment availability, no doctors or no legal access.
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