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Will Water-Jel interfere with the successful establishment of AUTOGRAFT?

April 26, 2017autograft establishment interfere successful water-jel

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Will Water-Jel interfere with the successful establishment of AUTOGRAFT?

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Water-Jel does not interfere with Autograft. Water-Jel is totally water-soluble. Any residual Water-Jel on a burn wound will be removed with the first bath. Even when Water-Jel is used for the definitive treatment of a small burn, it is removed with each washing. Any wound that will benefit from Autograft will have a necrotic (made of dead tissue cells) surface that must be removed for preparation of the bed. If there were noxious residuals, which there are not, they would be removed along with the necrotic material in preparation of the bed. There are myriad reasons for graft loss, but Water-Jel is not among them.