Wipes and cloths
Wipes and cloths
Cloths and wipes are used to clean wounds prior to wound dressing or to treat rashes and burns. The wiper is produced by forming a web of nonwoven materials in desired conventional fashion, saturating the web either before or after dying with a liquid solution of the binder material in solvent to cause a pick up by the web of a desired amount of the binder material. The wipe must be capable of retaining .The premoistened wiper which is capable of providing high wet strength until used, the premoistened wiper has a nonwoven web substrate of fibers which are bonded together by polymeric adhesive.
Surgical swabs
A swab is an absorbent textile pad used in general surgery to prepare the site of the operation to absorb excess blood and body fluids, to pack body cavities during surgery and to clean the incision prior to suturing .The traditional swab which is made of cotton gauze suffers from disadvantages despite its widespread use. The advantages of traditional swabs, in particular are their high absorbency and non linting properties
