PICC Line dressing allergy

I had IV 3000 (found it the best) or C film.at the oncology unit as that's what they had x

A blister in the corner is an indication they are stretching the dressing as they put it on ask them to make sure they allow chlorhexdine to set them place dressing on without tension 

I have really sensitive skin and both the normal and sensitive plasters made skin  sore and red, I put a tiny bit of sudocream on the pink bits. really cleared it up. dressing still drives me mad sometimes 

Thank you. Ive googled it and will show the nurse tomorrow for my next chemo session 

Carol

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I have blisters all over the area too not just the picc line . 

Carol

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Hi Carol, 

I had the same problem with my picc line dressings

i had blisters too

we went through a few dressing which didn’t help

eventually a dressing called “ Mepitel “ - we used this one as the primary dressing it can be cut to cover the skin from just below the insertion site and  the dressing that holds the butterfly of the picc line can be placed on the mepitel dressing so that the stickiness is no directly on your skin

then a Biatain silicone dressing to cover the picc .. it is also very kind to the skin. That’s what saved me and am sure it will help as I  ve used these  dressings for elderly patients who have very fragile skin and it works ( I am an emergency nurse practitioner) 

Hence I had to advise my oncology nurses to use this on me after we tried everything they had which didn’t work 

You might need to buy your own as most departments don’t have it 

even for my mastectomy wound it’s what we are using as I developed blisters with the dressings they used in theatre 

good luck 

I will try and attach pictures of the dressings if technology works 

I too had reaction to dressings now swapped to Iv 3000 and not one itch or blister 

Just checked my notes and I got it wrong it was the Iv 3000 that caused the reaction so changed to opsite and it’s a good job I checked as nurse was just about to whack a Iv3000 on me 

The nurse has tried this dressing. Still a bit itchy and have noticed a couple of blisters appear. So fingers crossed. 

My OH had trouble with an allergy to the glue on his patch pump for Type 1 diabetes.  He was given a spray to put on his skin before sticking the pump on. I'm sorry he isn't here so I can't ask him what it was called but it worked really well....his skin was both itchy and blistered like yours before he used it....so if you can't track it down by asking, come back to me and in the meantime I'll try to find out the name for you. 

Hope the chemo goes well for you. Love Karen