Painless Medical Tape Removal?
There’s a terrific product that we use at the hospital called Detachol. Here’s the MSDS that lists the ingredients. You can get it at Amazon or at your local medical supply store.
Having lived with tubes in my chest at multiple points in my life you probably have or are close to have tape burns, which can be as painful or more painful than the actual wound healing. Yes, your skin can burn from tape. The easiest way I have found, assuming you’re healed up enough, is to get a bowl of warm water and some very mild soap and soak the washcloth in it, put the warm wet washcloth over the tape for a while, effectivelly steaming it, you’ll want to do this for about 15-30 minutes and then slowly pull the tape back, repeating as necessary. Please do not try any rubbing alcohol or varnish removal, if you’ve burned at all it will make it extremely painful. The only time this doesn’t work well is when they’ve used waterproof tape, which is evil and should be scrubbed from the face of this planet. Generally this will never be used if applied by a hospital or medical staff. You’ll likely have some tape residue left over, annoying as it will be you’re best bet is to take the sam
