The consideration of benefit versus detriment has led me to add my own corollary namely "Wound care products should be edible". I am not saying they should be palatable nor am I encouraging you to supplement your diet with huge mouthfuls of calcium alginate or the latest honey-based products which taste nothing like my favorite SUE BEE honey.
It just makes simple, logical sense that if you suffer no toxic effects when putting something in your mouth or in your eye , then that product has the highest likelihood of not being detrimental. I believe I can safely assume that none of you has any interest in ingesting any amount of Dakin's solution. One concept that is overlooked by zealous Dakinites is that for any given wound, at a given time and place with a given treatment, some wounds will heal.
We are all aware that merely attending to a wound using simple means improves healing outcomes compared to doing absolutely nothing. Most wound care practitioners also fail to realize time for the tongue in cheek statement that for better or worse, there are a multitude of companies whose goal is to make a profit and to do so, they must identify, manufacture, and sell products that are potentially beneficial and have the highest benefit to risk ratio.
Products that help heal wounds not only get produced, but also get duplicated in various forms. Can any of you name all of the companies that not just produce, but also the names of all the incarnations of calcium alginates, foams , collagens, and negative pressure systems?
And yet there is only a single company producing Dakin's solution. If indeed this product unquestionably helps wounds to heal then why has there been no effort by reputable companies to not only produce Dakin's solution, but perhaps combine it with one of their own unique offerings?
It is clearly easy and inexpensive to produce and so the potential for enormous profit should be self-evident. Has Convatec never considered creating Daki-Derm? Looking at Dakin's solution through the most "profit-colored" glasses unquestionably shows that in the eyes of the wound care and general chemical manufacturing audience, interest in its sale seems to fall well below having Two Live Crew perform at an AARP convention.
If Dakin's solution works so well, why does just a single company manufacture it? Regarding the experiential consideration, truly experienced wound care specialists and others who have treated wounds for a long time will humorously and embarrassingly recall the use of heat lamps, sugar, milk of magnesia, and aggressive peri-bedsore massage with lotions with successful healing of many open wounds.
As a teenage, nursing home orderly well before the concepts of CNA or CMA were invented working in a Bucks County, Pennsylvania long-term, indigent care facility in the s, I have clear memories of performing these and other inconceivable treatments on my patients with equally clear memories of many wounds healed.
As of this date, I have yet to encounter any of these "treatments" still being perpetrated on patients. And so the arguments of "I've always done it that way", or "I've used Dakin's for many years and it healed a lot of wounds no one else could", or the more common "We only use it for a little while to clean the wound", are essentially indefensible, pitiful excuses which in my mind identify the user as unscientific, uninspired, and unimaginative Lastly, we can talk about scientific evidence.
One cannot truly count the number of research studies considered, initiated, and completed trying to identify why wounds fail to heal and what things help wounds heal. I think it is safe to say that within the continuum ranging from absolute, total product failure to the opposite end of total, unquestionable, universal product success, the results of testing the efficacy of all products fall somewhere in the middle.
Moreover, that at any given time or place, their success moves a little bit in one direction or the other along this continuum. And so I offer the simplistic but irrefutable concept that regardless of the quality of the scientific research, everything and anything that could conceivably be put in a wound to promote healing will in fact at one time or another demonstrate wound healing including Froot Loops.
These wound care equivalents of a bar bouncer will, at the same time purposefully avoid taking the same requested information if at first blush, it takes them out of their comfort zone and forces them to consider that there may be other potentially viable, and "better" alternatives. They bristle against information that forces them to recognize that regardless of the science, logic, and their experiences, that what they're doing is at best, questionable and at worst, detrimental.
And so at the risk of rattling a few cages, bruising a few egos, and forcing you to conceive of what was previously inconceivable, I offer the following:. Using Google and Medline, I did what I consider a reasonably extensive search for all articles in which Dakin's solution is mentioned. Further, I looked for those that used the terms Dakin's solution and wound care together.
There is a fairly extensive number of Internet articles regarding Dakin's solution. The presence of such metals in the solution will promote degradation. The presence of metallic ions will cause the formation of oxygen in the solution which increases decomposition. Our products are also manufactured with special equipment. It is because of this extra care that the stability of our products is much longer than typical sodium hypochlorite solutions. Century Pharmaceuticals has manufactured drugs and devices since Important Notice: The contents of the website such as text, graphics, images, and other materials contained on the website "Content" are for informational purposes only.
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