Get a roll now, ’cause the last thing you want to do when you’re limping around after a crash is tour the city’s Duane Reades explaining ‘dressing’ to a series of blank faced employees.Ī complete guide to treating road rash, and an explanation of why moist scab-free healing is better, is available here. By comparison, a 6″ x 8″ sheet of Tegaderm can be found for $3.90 (list $9.55), which makes it about 6 times as expensive as Fixomull. You’ll be able to shower and bathe relatively pain free.įixomull is available in a 6″ by 11 yard roll here for $30.95.
Once the oozing stops the patch will stay in place until healing is complete.
A daily washing with soap and a fresh patch will keep things healing nicely. You’ll have to change the dressing daily during the oozy first few days, as the pus will dislodge the film. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for 3M Tegaderm Transparent Dressing with Label 4' x 4 3/4' (10 x 12 cm)50 per Box 1626W at. Like Tegaderm, Fixomull is thin and elastic enough to adhere to compound curves, a must since road rash has a nasty habit of occurring on knees and elbows. Much easier than those Tegaderm paper frames. When everything’s in place, use the paper backing to pull away the plastic backing and you’re done, without ever touching and greasing up the adhesive. Now you can work the patch down while the heavier plastic backing keeps the film from folding in on itself. Position the patch on the wound, and peel away the other half of the backing to the red strip. Crack the paper backing and remove the free half of the paper backing. The two backings are joined by a red strip which runs down one side of the roll.
In severe cases, where multiple layers of skin have been removed during the fall, skin grafting surgery can be. Most of the time this injury is minor, even though it can be quite painful (especially in the shower). The thin film is backed with paper on the adhesive side, and a heavier plastic on the opposite side. Road rash is a skin abrasion that occurs when you scrape layers of skin against the road (or gravel) during a crash on the bike. I doubt it will sate his thirst for pus discussion, but we have to take a shot.įixomull is very similar to Tegaderm, but cheaper and easier to use. We had to eventually post a review about this stuff, so we don’t have to hear about it ever again. Road rash is something like going to the spa and getting a deep exfoliating treatment. If youre reading this, youve had road rash, currently have it or youre going to have it. Some day, some how, you will likely come off your bike. He’s obsessed with this bandage stuff he uses, emailing updates about his various states of scabbiness (or lack thereof), the amount of pusiness (if that is, indeed, a word), and the general awesomeness the process of his skin growing back. Road rash is a fairly inevitable part of cycling.
Every time Andy hits the deck, after the crying has stopped, his excitement for the healing begins.