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Ointment For Healing?
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Long shot, I know, but I wondered if anyone here had suggestions for an ointment for this wound.
WARNING! The photo is of a healing wound on the end of an amputated stump, so persons of a nervous disposition, don't click the link.
What I'd like is some sort of ointment/cream/whatever that (a) helps close the wound and heal it, and (b) (wouldn't it be nice) that stops it hurting!
SEE WARNING ABOVE BEFORE CLICKING.
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Thanks.
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WARNING! The photo is of a healing wound on the end of an amputated stump, so persons of a nervous disposition, don't click the link.
What I'd like is some sort of ointment/cream/whatever that (a) helps close the wound and heal it, and (b) (wouldn't it be nice) that stops it hurting!
SEE WARNING ABOVE BEFORE CLICKING.
https:/
Thanks.
A.
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I second what woofgang wrote. Allen that looks nasty and to be honest looks nothing like the healing process. I don't like the look of that red area, keep checking its not getting bigger. Can you send this pic to your GP for some advice?
IF you want some advice in the mean time keep it clean -If you were one of my horses with a wound like that I would would be tempted to poultice it to soften it up to see if any muck came out, then let it dry up. But you aren't a horse so ignore that please ;-)
IF you want some advice in the mean time keep it clean -If you were one of my horses with a wound like that I would would be tempted to poultice it to soften it up to see if any muck came out, then let it dry up. But you aren't a horse so ignore that please ;-)
“Do not use the prosthesis.”
Well-intentioned advice, I know, and in an ideal world it might be possible. For all sorts of reasons, it wouldn’t be so in my case.
Bit of additional information: the wound, back in February, was twice as large (the area of whiteish skin was all ulcer back then) so progress is being made - like all things when you get old, progress is slow!
Well-intentioned advice, I know, and in an ideal world it might be possible. For all sorts of reasons, it wouldn’t be so in my case.
Bit of additional information: the wound, back in February, was twice as large (the area of whiteish skin was all ulcer back then) so progress is being made - like all things when you get old, progress is slow!
I haven’t got a Care Team.
Prosthetic dept at my orthopaedic hospital (near as we get to a care team) say (a) use a walking stick (I do). (b) chief prosthetic consultant there gave me a packet of steristrips (no I’m not kidding) to hold the original ulcer together; they lasted about 15 minutes.
Best advice has come from local Tissue Clinic who sent a very bright specialist nurse round. She recommended Comfeel ulcer dressings, but they’re only indicated for discharging ulcers. Mine has been dry for a few months now. District Nurse came more recently and said the Comfeel were now not necessary. Since then I’ve been using proprietary ointments plus Melolin dressings. It IS getting smaller - I’m just trying to hurry things along.
To minimise use? Servants. And no, Mrs A does all she can, but needs looking after herself!
Prosthetic dept at my orthopaedic hospital (near as we get to a care team) say (a) use a walking stick (I do). (b) chief prosthetic consultant there gave me a packet of steristrips (no I’m not kidding) to hold the original ulcer together; they lasted about 15 minutes.
Best advice has come from local Tissue Clinic who sent a very bright specialist nurse round. She recommended Comfeel ulcer dressings, but they’re only indicated for discharging ulcers. Mine has been dry for a few months now. District Nurse came more recently and said the Comfeel were now not necessary. Since then I’ve been using proprietary ointments plus Melolin dressings. It IS getting smaller - I’m just trying to hurry things along.
To minimise use? Servants. And no, Mrs A does all she can, but needs looking after herself!
Difficult, very difficult as you probably have impaired blood supply to that limb and a Doppler may well be indicated
Dressings with ointments or impregnated gauze may well be the answer and I would suggest that the amputation team or TIssue team may well be the answer.
It looks clean and non infected but I hope that you are taking something for pain relief.
Dressings with ointments or impregnated gauze may well be the answer and I would suggest that the amputation team or TIssue team may well be the answer.
It looks clean and non infected but I hope that you are taking something for pain relief.
Mr F had this problem for many years after losing a leg.
The medics gave him some form of a dressing that appeared sponge-like, no idea now what it was called, sorry.
He also tried different stump socks to try and help. What he found most comfortable was a silky thin sock, followed by two of the towelling ones. He always wore the towelling ones so that the loopy side was on the inside.
Might the socket be a tad loose? They also lined the top of his socket with a fine leather to stop slippage.
The only ointment he ever used was one Odstock recommended made from evening orimrose, but that was mainly in the days after the grafts.
Wish he was here now so I could ask him for you.
The medics gave him some form of a dressing that appeared sponge-like, no idea now what it was called, sorry.
He also tried different stump socks to try and help. What he found most comfortable was a silky thin sock, followed by two of the towelling ones. He always wore the towelling ones so that the loopy side was on the inside.
Might the socket be a tad loose? They also lined the top of his socket with a fine leather to stop slippage.
The only ointment he ever used was one Odstock recommended made from evening orimrose, but that was mainly in the days after the grafts.
Wish he was here now so I could ask him for you.
I do have a wheelchair, but the narrowness of our small London flat precludes its use indoors; I would use it for hospital visits, but since (vulnerable) lockdown, haven't been out since hospital back in February.
Kicking this about today has helped, as I'm homing in on (a) chasing GP who in the past has pushed the problem onto the Orthopaedic hospital (of which more above), and (b) getting a new referral to that Tissue Clinic, who were the best of the bunch.
Of course, it all comes back to the fact that my alcoholism (kicked 18 years ago now) was the primary cause of the amputation, so nobody else to blame for these longer-term problems.
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Kicking this about today has helped, as I'm homing in on (a) chasing GP who in the past has pushed the problem onto the Orthopaedic hospital (of which more above), and (b) getting a new referral to that Tissue Clinic, who were the best of the bunch.
Of course, it all comes back to the fact that my alcoholism (kicked 18 years ago now) was the primary cause of the amputation, so nobody else to blame for these longer-term problems.
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