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SkinSmart Antimicrobial debuts with eczema and wound care … – Drug Store News


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SkinSmart Antimicrobial debuts with eczema and wound care …
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MINNEAPOLIS — SkinSmart Antimicrobial is a new skincare brand launching over-the-counter solutions for eczema and wound care. SkinSmart is powered by …
SkinSmart Antimicrobial Launches Innovations for Eczema …satPRnews (press release)

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SkinSmart Antimicrobial debuts with eczema and wound care … – Drug Store News


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SkinSmart Antimicrobial debuts with eczema and wound care …
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MINNEAPOLIS — SkinSmart Antimicrobial is a new skincare brand launching over-the-counter solutions for eczema and wound care. SkinSmart is powered by …
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Allergic to Melolin wound dressings

If you have a latex allergy the chances are you are also allergic to plasters. I have known about my allergy to sticky plasters for years and usually have a stock of the hypo allergenic plasters but when you get an injury that requires something more that just a plaster what can you use?

I managed to get a branch embedded into my arm the other day resulting in a nasty oozing wound. It was OK for the first day with a large Melolin adhesive dressing, but it all started to go wrong after that. Possibly because I bought some supermarket own brand dressings…

These pictues don’t really show how awful the skin became.

Allergic to wound dressings

Allergic to wound dressings

I tried just the padded non adhesive pads with bandage which seemed to just make things worse and didn’t stay in place very well. I don’t find the adhesive strips for keeping dressings in place ever stick to my skin at all. This is partly due to the emollients I use, and not using these is just not an option. I wonder if the reaction was started and just triggered an eczema flare on that area of my arm which just didn’t want anything else on it… whatever it was it was not pleasant. It felt like burning and left my arm blistered in a square where the adhesive was. The itching of the arm was worse than the injury itself… go figure!

So I am also allergic to Melolin dressings and the steri stip stuff.

I gave up with the large dressings when the actual sticky bit ripped a long slit wound right up my arm where it had stuck to the skin. You can see this in the pictures above. Bled like nothing else. Man that was painful, and felt much worse than the original wound. Pain is a weird thing.

So we were not doing well with this bloomin wound… although I have mastered the art of bandaging my own arm one handed!

No or low allergen alternatives for larger wounds

So after some research we will be better prepared should there be a next time.

  1. Lint – absorbant lint is just a square af plain cotton padding. This did stick to the wound a bit but did not irrirate my skin. After cutting it to size and making a pad with a few layers I was then able to bandage the arm loosely. Fast Aid Absorbent Lint 500g
  2. Robinson’s Skintact dressings – These were recommended on a forum I discovered. I haven’t tried them yet but have ordered some for my next disaster. I do appear to be becoming a tad accident prone! You can buy these on Amazon but I’ve not found them anywhere else. (Pack Of 20) Robinsons Skintact Sterile First Aid Dressings 10cm X 10cm – Dual-sided, low-adherent perforated film dressings.
  3. Non adhesive dressings with a tubi grip – I didn’t get around to doing this but it was one of the ideas I toyed with. By this point I had decided to try to leave it uncovered and just wear long sleeves to protect it. I would try this in the future as bandage ones own is not easy.
  4. Jelonet – another forum suggested Jelonet but I don’t know enough about this one. I thought I would include it just in case it helps, should you find yourself on a similar painful journey.
  5. Manuka Honey dressings – I also found these while researching this blog. It’s a gauze that you apply to skin and then bandage over the top. Actilite Manuka Honey Dressings 10cm x 10cm Box of 10 Dressings

But do you know what felt the best? Once the skin was inflamed and angry anything felt uncomfortable, but I still wanted to keep the wound protected. The only thing that didn’t feel unpleasant was to wear a merino wool long sleeved top and no dressing. The feel of merino against my arm was cooling and soothing.

Savlon just irritated me even more. Healing and soothing the awful outcome was the next job and I found Tea Tree, Aloe Vera and Pure Potions Skin Salvation (Pure Potions Skin Salvation with Hemp – For People with Dry, Itchy Skin 120ml)
were the only things that worked; couple this with taking some antihistamines to help with the incessant itching and the allergic reaction eventually subsided, which took about a week!

So be careful my allergic ones. Avoid major wounds in the first place if you can obviously, but if you do need some proper dressings be very careful what you put on your sensitive skin.

You will all be pleased to hear that the arm is now almost completely healed and the skin is back to normal, it a little itchy. Has anyone else had a similar experience with these dressings? What did you do?

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For Psoriasis And Wound Care, Protein May Be Key

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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disorder in which skin cells proliferate out of control. For some hard-to-heal wounds, the problem is just the opposite: Restorative skin cells don’t grow well or fast enough. In a paper published in Immunity, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine describe a molecule that may lead to new treatments for both problems.

An international team of scientists led by principal investigator Richard L. Gallo, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and chief of UC San Diego’s Division of Dermatology, analyzed skin biopsies of patients with and without psoriasis, as well as the skin of mice with psoriasis and with wounds on their backs. They discovered that a molecule called regenerating islet-derived protein 3-alpha (REG3A) is highly expressed in skin cells during psoriasis and wound-healing, but not under normal skin conditions.


In tests on mice, researchers found that inhibiting REG3A slowed wound-healing but cleared up psoriasis, which is commonly characterized by patches of inflammation and white, scaly skin. http://www.eczemablog.net/


The scientists also noted that REG3A acts in concert with interleukin-17 (IL-17), an immune system protein involved in the signaling cascade which prompts skin cells to multiply in excess numbers. “IL-17 binds to receptors on skin cells and causes REG3A to be expressed, which then binds to another protein inside the cells that promotes cell growth,” said first author Yuping Lai, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunity at East China Normal University in Shanghai.


Gallo said the discovery of REG3A’s dual roles provides a new target for different therapies.


“A drug that inhibits the expression of REG3A could represent a more targeted way to treat psoriasis without the systemic immunosuppression problems of current treatments. Conversely, a drug that stimulates or mimics REG3A could boost cell growth and improve wound healing.”

Article adapted by Medical News Today from original press release. Click ‘references’ tab above for source.
Visit our eczema / psoriasis section for the latest news on this subject. Co-authors are Dongqing Li, Changwei Li, Ziwei Jiang, Zhiheng Li, Hu Lei, Yanchun Quan and Tian Zhang, all at the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University; Beda Muhleisen, Paul Kotol and Tissa R. Hata, Division of Dermatology, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, UC San Diego; Katherine A. Radek, Department of Surgery, Burn and Shock Trauma Institute, Loyola University, Chicago; Hyun Jeong Park, Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul; Shin Morizane and Keiji Iwatsuki, Department of Dermatology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Japan; Ge Tang, Center for Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo.
Funding for this research came, in part, from the National Institutes of Health (grants AR052728, AI052453, AI083358), the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality.
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