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Comppid patch from damp and dry corns
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Hydrocolloid dressings, sealing and protecting wounds, as well as plasters of various shapes and sizes, help in the treatment of superficial damage to the skin. These include the plaster Compide (Compeed), designed to combat calluses.
At present, the Compeed trademark belongs to Johnson & Johnson, but the technology of barrier medical coatings with hydrocolloid particles was developed and introduced into production in the early 1980s. The Danish company Coloplast A / S, which also produces Comfeel Plus bandages.
Indications Composter
Hydrocolloid plasters Compide can be used from calluses on the feet (on the heels, feet and fingers) as a protection against mechanical impact on the damaged grated skin, moisture, dirt and possible bacterial infection.
These are plasters from dry calluses: Compeed Underfoot Blister Plasters, Compeed Corn plasters, Compeed Blister Mix.
From wet calluses (filled with exudate wet calluses or dropsy on the legs and hands) helps patch Compeed Soothing Blister Relief Plasters; from corns (dry corns on the plantar parts of the feet) - Compeed Medium Callous Plasters; from growing calluses (with penetrating into the deeper layers of the skin core) - adhesive bandage Compeed (Compeed Active Corn Plasters).
In addition, there is a special anti-herpes patch Compeed Total Care Invisible Cold Sore Patch - from herpes, from colds on the lips. Since this transparent remedy makes the eruption of herpes (fever) on the lips and in the nasolabial area almost imperceptible, it was followed by the usual name - masking plaster Compide.
Although the main form of TM Compeed products is hydrocolloid plasters, a tool such as Compeed Anti-Blister Stick or Kompidus pencil is used to protect the skin of the feet from rubbing and formation of dropsy (wet calluses).
The instructions to the data of the remedy do not indicate any contraindications to the use, except for the increased sensitivity of the skin, which means that it is possible to use them during pregnancy, and also for children over three years of age.
However, it should be borne in mind that it is not worthwhile to apply a patch on a skin area with obvious inflammation, because in such cases, sealing the damaged skin and increased humidity under the patch can lead to the wetting and strengthening of necrotic processes.
Release form
What is in the composition of plasters Compide? First of all, it is hydrocolloid particles that create a protective moisture-resistant coating on the skin - thin and flexible.
Used in the patches of this TM gelling material hydrocolloid-075 is a polymer that is a three-dimensional sodium salt of carboxymethyl cellulose - croscarmellose. In water this polymer does not dissolve, but it perfectly absorbs the liquid.
The active surface of the patch is covered with a thermoplastic adhesive mass, the adhesive properties of which provide a transparent low-molecular polymer, which consists of hydrocarbon resins (cycloaliphatic, aromatic modified and hydrogenated). At a low strain rate, the polymer provides a higher resistance to stress, so that the patch is not felt during movement and does not limit them.
When using the Comppid patch from wet calluses (blisters), croscarmellose absorbs the exudate, turning into a soft mass - hydrophilic gel, which becomes a "protective cushion" for calluses: the pain decreases, the pressure and friction decrease. Simultaneously, the blister becomes denser, under the skin of which there is a natural regeneration of the skin cells.
A patch from dry corns, isolating the skin area from the external environment, creates under its surface conditions of high humidity, which promotes fibrinolysis - softening of keratinocytes, which form corns on the place of rubbed skin.
Compide from corns and ingrowing corns - adhesive Compide intensive - promotes their softening due to the presence of salicylic acid. A plaster of calluses on the heels of Compeed Soothing Blister Relief Plasters contains aloe vera.
Pencil Kompid consists of hydrogenated vegetable fats, cetyl stearyl alcohol, octyldodecanol (softening and moisturizing agent), phenoxyethanol (formaldehyde derivative) and perfume.
Dosing and administration
Compartment plaster from the calluses on the feet should be pasted onto the previously cleaned and thoroughly dried skin - from the center to the edges, without touching the adhesive side of the hand. For better adhesion, patch, without removing the protective paper membrane, it is necessary to warm, having held two or three minutes in hands.
And after it is stuck, for more reliable fixing it is necessary to hold it for several minutes.
The compide is hard after sticking to the callousness (on skimmed skin) for two days, then removed (if it has not peeled off by itself) and make a hot foot bath for 5-10 minutes. The skin, partially exfoliated from the callus, is gently scraped off. Such procedures are carried out for two weeks, after which the cornified skin of the callus descends.
Actually, the corn plaster Urgocor is also used - with salicylic acid, and Salipod - with salicylic acid and sulfur.
How to use a patch from herpes Compeed Invisible Cold Sore patch? It is recommended to use an anti-herpetic patch Compeed at the first signs, when a tingling or itching starts. The patch should be kept around the clock (this provides protection of surrounding tissues from the spread of the virus.) The patch will lag behind in about 8 hours, and it should be replaced with a new one.
Hidden under the patch of herpes passes, because under the hydrocolloidal coating, natural healing (without scab formation) is accelerated and tissue regeneration is accelerated.
Regarding how to remove the Compeed patch, the manufacturer indicated that nothing to do is necessary: after two or three days, he peels off himself. But if you need to remove the patch earlier, it should not be pulled up, but slowly stretched in a horizontal plane (along the skin).
Storage conditions
The most suitable conditions for the storage of hydrocolloid plasters: a cool (not higher than 18-22 degrees) place, protected from direct sunlight.
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Shelf life
Shelf life, depending on the type of patch, is 24-32 months.
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Compound plaster analogues
The plasters and waterproof materials for the wound surfaces, which contain the hydrocolloid particles of carboxymethyl cellulose: DuoDERM Extra Thin, Mepilex Border, Allevyn Gentle Border, Tegaderm Hydrocolloid, Alione, Tesco, Hansaplast, can be considered analogues of plasters Compeed from calluses.
It is possible to use a self-adhesive silicone patch Cosmopor E, and with a strong tenderness of corn, a patch with lidocaine Lidoderm or Versatis can help.
Analogues of the anti-herpetic band-aid Compeed are patches of other manufacturers, in particular, Elastoplast, Activpatch, Urgo.
The testimonies of those who used these patches show that they help to get rid of fever on the lips faster without external means against the herpes simplex virus.
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Attention!
To simplify the perception of information, this instruction for use of the drug "Comppid patch from damp and dry corns" translated and presented in a special form on the basis of the official instructions for medical use of the drug. Before use read the annotation that came directly to medicines.
Description provided for informational purposes and is not a guide to self-healing. The need for this drug, the purpose of the treatment regimen, methods and dose of the drug is determined solely by the attending physician. Self-medication is dangerous for your health.