SILVER HEALING™

 

Within modern hospitals silver is a widely accepted powerful antiseptic aiding the successful treatment of serious wounds. It optimises the natural wound healing process, destroying and minimising the spread of bacteria and therefore protecting wounds from infection. This scientifically proven treatment method has now been adapted by advanced wound care expert Elastoplast® in the pioneering form of SILVERHEALING™ technology to provide this highly protective wound care treatment in the home.

Silver has been used for centuries to prevent and to treat a variety of diseases, mostly infections. In ancient Greece and Rome and the middle ages it was used to disinfect water and food while in storage, as well as for the treatment of burns and wounds as wound dressings.

Throughout the last centuries silver has been used as an antimicrobial agent and the efficacy and safety of this metal has been well established. In the 18th century Karl S. F. Crédé developed silver gauze for wound dressing.

The US Food and Drug Administration approved silver solutions in the 1920s for use as antibacterial agents.

Today silver containing wound dressings are well established for clinical wound care.


Elastoplast plaster with Silver Technology for dry wound healing:

On contact with moisture in the wound, silver ions are released destroying bacterial cell structures and inhibiting their function, killing harmful germs and reducing the risk of infection.