subject: The Purpose Of Quality Sterile Gauze Rolls [print this page] Open wounds are a cause for concern due to the infectious nature of the air, many liquids, and any other material or surface you come in contact with. Using sterile gauze rolls to cover and secure medical bandages over wounds is the best way to prevent infection and even fatality due to infection. Gauze rolls are often found in first aid kits, hospitals, clinics, ambulances and even in the medicine cabinet of many homes. Gauze rolls provide a sterile covering for bandaged wounds, cuts, abrasions or other injury, and can also be used to fasten or secure other sterile coverings when medical tape or adhesive isnt present.
Youll also find gauze rolls in dental offices where dental assistants will cut pieces off the roll for use as a pressure and clotting aid during oral surgery. Many people have left dental offices with mouths full of gauze from much larger gauze rolls. Gauze rolls coming in different lengths, widths and actually roll length (how much gauze is on the roll total), and each size of roll has a different purpose in the medical community. Wider gauze rolls are used to hand bandage patients after surgery, and the thinner or small gauze rolls are used to bandage small wounds, cuts, bumps and abrasions. Also gauze rolls, if wound tight enough, can function as an ace bandage when theres a need for restraining an appendage and an ace bandage isnt available.
Sterile gauze rolls should always be included in the household first aid kit, because scraps, bumps and the like are most common in the home.
Despite the medical nature of gauze rolls there are some non medical uses for gauze rolls.
Some people will take the gauze roll and use it as a splint for hand or finger injuries. Gauze rolls are also more durable for use as wrappings for mummy costumes than toilet paper. While toilet paper is cheaper, the paper is too thin to stand up to the abuse that a trick or treating mummy will commit. Gauze rolls are easy to get, easy to use and brown gauze rolls are perfect for creating that authentic thousand year old dead guy look your kid is going for.
Gauze rolls are very often used in the tattoo industry to cover the newly inked area to stop any bleeding, protect the raw skin and to prevent rubbing or other irritation from occurring while the area is healing.
All in all, sterile gauze rolls play an important part in medicine, Halloween and tattooing.
