Wet compression bandage

You have been given a wet compression bandage in order to prevent or to reduce an infection. You should follow the advice below to help your recovery.  

• When you go home, you should soak the bandage thoroughly in cold running tapwater.
• The bandage must be soaked through and feel cold. You can keep it like this by making it wet again every two hours.
• You can protect your mattress by covering it with a plastic bag on top of which you can place a large towel.  

• Do not wrap the affected part of your body in plastic as the heat so generated can cause an infection.
• Keep the bandaged part of your body as still as possible.  

If, having read this leaflet, you have any questions, please do not hesitate to telephone the Surgery (Chirurgie) Outpatients’ Department.
Telephone number: 070 - 312 43 59.