Piobaire
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Trick is to put a layer of vaseline gauze under the gauze. You can buy it prepackaged, but a cut up (clean) bed sheet saturated with vaseline (or Neosporin, but people worry about using it for too long) works too. Will keep the wound moist until your next change, but will peel off easy... All of the stuff that forms scabs/sticks flows through it and sets up on the gauze pad instead of your skin.
But now that I've got the tegaderm, I'm not going back! Will have to try the vaseline seepage tunnel trick on a fresh wound (this one had already slowed down)
Edit: here's my wound pic.
Interesting. That link specifically advises against Telfa. Next time I'm talking to a friend of mine, who's an MD that owns a wound care practice, I'll quiz him about all this.