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How do you keep a bandage on a badly skinned knee??


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I cam home from the Masshope Conference to an 11 year old vs. scooter accident. She has a good 2" in circumference area right on her knee that was skinned off. I slathered it with antibiotic ointment and a nonstick gauze and that was ok for bedtime but I can't imagine it staying on well during the day.

Any ideas from the hive??

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Large non-stick pad, and I'd wrap a few turns of gauze around the knee to help hold it in place. Been there, done that ;) My hubby calls skinned knees "badges of honor" since they prove the kid has been out being a kid, not just sitting in front of a tv/'puter screen.

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He had a bike wreck at scout camp and decided to stay at camp. He had skin off all over his body and had a lot of bandages and it was a real effort to keep them covered in a camp of all men and boys where "sanitary" isn't exactly a byword, LOL. The knee bandages were the worst to keep on... even worse than the bandages around his palms. We wound up using a large bandage and using tape all the way around the leg above the knee and then below the knee. He's got hairy knees so it was not a pleasant experience to get that tape off! Those did stay on pretty well that way and his wounds never did get infected.

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