Dürma+ Unna Boot Bandage with Zinc Oxide - Maintains Moist Environment and Provides Compression for Leg Ulcers, Edema, Sprains - 4" x 10 yds - Box of 1 Roll

My husband was hospitalized, and subsequently went to a wound care center, for leg ulcers related to diabetes and edema. The staff was great but after the first visit all they did was measure his progress and give us instructions for home. The instructions were pretty basic - clean the wounds, moisturize the skin, cover the wound with gauze and bacitracin and wrap the leg in an ace bandage. Honestly, other than the antibiotics in the hospital, this is exactly what we'd been doing. So, when he had a second occurrence I started researching online. We did get an antibiotic from his PCP but took control of the actual wound care ourselves.After seeing a number of videos and articles instructing on the Unna Boot we gave it a try first by using a zinc based diaper ointment (organic) and it was encouraging but the coverage was spotty and the process messy. I ordered this product and knew immediately why my home made one was so inadequate. The Dynarex Unna Boot Bandages are SATURATED with zinc oxide and quite wet. The bandage really does go on like a cast and can be smoothed to fit with no folds. I don't leave them on for more than 7 days (even though the videos on YouTube seem to indicate they're for a longer duration) and I do treat any open wounds with silver nitrate impregnated gauze pads and silver nitrate antibiotic cream. We have seen so much better results with the unna boot than we ever did just rewrapping with moisturizer, antibiotic cream and ace bandages. A really deep ulcer is filling in and the integrity of his skin is better than it has been in years. I wish I had done both legs because now we are going down a similar path with the other one but, thank goodness, I know what to do this time.

Exactly what i needed

Works

My doctor referred me to a local hospital to schedule the unna boot treatment.Waiting two months for the appointment would have been too painful, too inconvenient, and too risky, not to mention extremly costly. Althoughh my insurance would have coverred it, I think I avoided more serious consequences.This product cleared up the problem in about 10 days. I did a little research on line first, because I didn't even know how to spell unna boot.

It’s already has like a past on it so a open sore doesn’t stick to it

Just what I needed and same exact product hospital wound clinic uses

Sent to my Grandfather for his home health assistant to use. Not exactly what he used in the hospital but will do the trick. Enough tension to stay on but not too tight to leave marks.

Compared with the other Unna Boot product I bought (a Gelocast Unna Boot Bandage that had chamomile), this one is just ok...I buy them for my young daughter, who has pretty severe eczema, as it was recommended by her doctor as a soothing way to wrap up her worst spots.PROS:1. Seems to more or less get the job done in terms of helping my daughter's inflamed skin get a little calmer2. Wet, easy to cut, all the things you really need something like this to be.CONS:1. Compared to other Unna boots we've both, this one the film on it felt thicker (which might be a pro for some people/treatments, ended up being a con for us because it didn't necessarily soothe our daughter more... but it did make it feel ickier when we were applying it.It works fine. If it were significantly cheaper than other options we'd get it again, as it is we'll probably go with options that have chamomile (which seems to soothe our daughter a little more) and feels "ickier" (which I know, not a very scientific term.For people who want a slightly thicker gel, etc this might be a good buy...