Guest guest Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Been reading here on the Aquacel packing. Interesting it has ionic silver in it. Wonder if I could make my own? http://www.dressings.org/Dressings/aquacel-ag.html - Kathy oleander soup Friday, March 26, 2010 10:54 AM {SPAMFILTER} Re: RE: Pilonidal cyst Well this is the best news yet! You must have been where I am today with my fear for him. I already know I am more worried than he is and my husband. I was kinda rude to my hubby yesterday because I gave him the 'you are not showing your emotions' speech lol He just said - he will be fine. My son said 'Mom you think too much' Obvious they both know me well haha You have made me feel so much better. I will get a new shower head. Thats a great idea - I of course can not think so I did not think of that. About the packing stuff.. I have not read about that. Where can I purchase this? I do not care how much it cost. Well I do but you know what I mean. lol I have some medical training but I will be sure to pay close attention to the dressing part. Thank you so much for taking your time to reply. Sigh of relief. Kathy - Irene Small oleander soup Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:26 PM {SPAMFILTER} RE: Pilonidal cyst Hello Kathy, I know you are feeling concerned about this cyst. My 19 year old son had his operated on 3 weeks ago. I think I was more worried than he was. My son didn't have any pain at all. I still have to wash it and dress it everyday. The dressing is vitally important as doing it right may prevent it from occurring again Make sure you don't leave the hospital until you watch them dress it so you will know that you are doing it right. They didn't stitch this wound so it is just like a large open bit. You will have to help him in the shower and get the hose with the shower attachment that fits onto your shower so you can spray it clean from underneath. Cleaning is what helps it heal too. Also on some of the internet sights about these cysts, they tell you about a "aquacel" brand of packing. You pack the wound with that. It is excellent although it is rather expensive. It is like a dry ribbon sort of strip that has seaweed properties in it to help with the healing, It absorbs anything in the wound and it goes jelly like and doesn't stick like other packing would. Therefore it doesn't hurt. You can do it... and your son will be fine. Irene. oleander soup From: vanokatDate: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:47:49 -0400 Pilonidal cyst This may be Ot for this group -sorry. I am devastated here with the news my 14 yo son has a Pilonidal cyst. Good grief it is one thing after another for us here. Dr says he absolutely has to have surgery - it is pretty bad. He has him on Bactrim right now until we can get into a surgeon. He first complained of this last summer but we thought it was just a boil so we treated it as such. We took him to the Dr clear back in Oct. and the Dr said it looked like it was healing and did not seem concerned. He has had several 'flare ups' which I now know is normal. This thing is really gross and he also a big hole which is referred to as a 'sinus'. I am scared to death for my child to have this surgery - everything I have read says extremely painful. Anyone here ever dealt with anything like this? http://www.pilonidal.org Sign up for SEEK Jobmail. Get the latest jobs delivered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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