9 Steps Against 2: Counting the Wet Wrap Evening Out Loud
Kettle, bowl, soak, wring, wrap, dry layer, pyjamas, timer, sit with them. A routine with nine steps has nine places to fail.
Count the steps, not the strength of the cream.
Nine against two. That gap is not a convenience argument. It is the whole reason the protocol gets abandoned.
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The nine
- Kettle on.
- Bowl filled.
- Bandage soaked.
- Bandage wrung out.
- Wet layer on.
- Dry layer over it.
- Pyjamas on over that.
- Timer set.
- Sit with them until it is done.
About fifty minutes, at the end of a working day, by someone who is tired.
Every step is a place for the evening to go wrong. The bandage is too wet and soaks the bed. The child will not sit still. The timer goes off during the one bit of television you were watching. Nine steps is nine chances for tonight to be the night it does not happen.
The two
- Emollient on.
- One dry garment pulled over it.
A few seconds, standing up, with no water involved.
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What the nine were actually doing
Two jobs, doing different things.
The dry outer layer holds the emollient against the skin and stops it rubbing off on the bedding, so it stays for hours instead of minutes. Covering skin also slows the water leaving it overnight. That is occlusion, and it is the part any garment that does not absorb can do.
The damp inner layer cools the skin as it dries, which many people find soothing during a flare. A dry garment cannot do that, and if a wet wrap has been advised for a flare, keep to that advice.
So the useful question is not whether a dry garment replaces wet wrapping. It is whether, on the ordinary nights, the emollient stays against the skin. That is what most of the nine steps were there to protect.
Before you buy
- Not over a prescription steroid unless your doctor has said so. Occlusion increases how much is absorbed.
- Not on broken, weeping or infected skin.
- Not between the toes. Those spaces stay dry.
The offer
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One pair · £25
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Why now: tonight could have seven fewer steps in it.
If it does not suit you, reply inside fourteen nights and we refund you without asking for it back.
Free UK delivery · No subscription · Machine washable at 40 · Working life 3 to 6 months
A textile accessory, not a cosmetic or a medical device.
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