In often in the autumn the wet and cool period begins to ravage the flu , which affects both adults and children. We all know about possible complications of this disease from school, so everyone will agree that you need to protect yourself from the virus by any means.
On a large scale of the epidemic, many, especially those who are forced to stay in public places, resort to vaccination and medication prophylaxis, but if most of the day you are in the house or in the yard, you will have to wear a gauze bandage to prevent the virus. Also, one can not do without it if one member of the family falls ill so that the rest of the households do not become infected - in this case, the cotton-gauze dressing is necessary for both adults and children.
But, unfortunately, it often happens that it is in the midst of an epidemic that agiotage over bandages begins, so it is extremely difficult to purchase it at such a time, and there is nothing left but to sew a cotton-gauze bandage with one's own hands. This is very easy to do, even if you do not have the most basic sewing skills.
Making a cotton-gauze bandage
Before you start making a cotton-gauze bandage, you should determine its size. The standard product, which we see in pharmacies, measures 15 cm in length and 5 cm in height. If we are talking about a cotton-gauze dressing for children, it all depends on age - a ten-year-old baby will be fit and adult, and for kids up to six can make 10 x 4.
So, in order to sew a cotton-gauze bandage on the face, we need this:
- 4 cut gauze with dimensions of 17x7 cm;
- 2 long pieces of a narrow bandage 5 cm wide and about 60-70 cm long.
Now let's get to work.
How to make a cotton-gauze bandage with your own hands?
- The first thing we do is bandage. Take two long strips and turn them 3 times.
- We sew them along the entire length. This can be done both on a typewriter with a standard needle and manually with a small incision.
- Now proceed to the gauze. We take 4 identical shreds, we put them together and with a notch suture we sew them around the edges.
- Then taper the edges 1 cm into the interior and carefully stitch it.
- Now take our ready-made strings and sew along the bandages - one above, the other from below. We make sure that the strings remain the same length.
The cotton-gauze bandage is ready!
How correctly to wear a cotton-gauze bandage?
That the cotton-gauze bandage really served as a preventive maintenance of virus diseases, including influenza , it is necessary to know how to dress it properly and how to wear it.
Firstly, the bandage must necessarily cover not only the mouth, but also the nose. Secondly, you need to tie it tightly enough, but it's also important not to overdo it, otherwise you may even have a headache. This is one of the most important moments in the correct use of a cotton-gauze bandage on the face.
What else you need to know when using a cotton-gauze bandage? Even if you are at home or on the street, where there is not a large crowd of people, the bandage should be changed at least every 3-4 hours, otherwise it can start to accumulate the very bacteria that we want to protect from. If you are in public places or at work, where a lot of people pass by you, the bandage should be changed at least every 2 hours.
To throw out cotton-gauze bandages on the face it is not necessary, it is enough to wash it simply in hot water, and then iron it, preferably with steam blow, and it is again ready for use.