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A patch is a dosage form in the form of a plastic mass that has the ability to soften at body temperature and adhere to the skin, or in the form of the same mass on a flat carrier, intended for external use.
The patches have an effect on the skin, subcutaneous tissues and, in some cases, a general effect on the body. The patches can be in the form of a plastic mass with or without a backing or on an adhesive tape of a medicated pad. The composition of the patch mass, depending on the purpose of the patch, may include natural or synthetic rubbers approved for medical use, their mixtures, as well as other polymers, fat-like substances, natural oils, fillers, antioxidants and medicinal substances.

Adhesive plaster
Elastic Band-Aid

What do you do if you suddenly get burned or cut? That's right - seal the wound with adhesive tape. But if Josephine Dixon were a more skilled housewife, who knows what we would bandage small cuts and scrapes with today ...

The Dixon family moved to New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1920. As befits an exemplary wife, Josephine tried every evening to meet her husband Earl, who works at Johnson & Johnson as a purchasing manager, with a hot dinner. Unfortunately, she was clearly deprived of the talent of a cook. Not in the sense that the dinner was inedible, no, from that point of view, everything was in perfect order. That's just in the process of cooking, she managed to cut herself with a knife several times and burn herself. Her loving husband bandaged her fingers every evening with gauze, securing it with pieces of duct tape. This took a lot of time, and such bandages did not last long.

Finally, after several weeks of kitchen torment, Earl had an idea (fortunately - as the official history of Johnson & Johnson says - it was not the idea to hire a cook). Earl decided to make the dressings ahead of time, using a strip of duct tape as a base and placing squares of gauze covered with a thin cloth at regular intervals.

Now Josephine could bandage her wounded fingers herself, simply cutting pieces of the required length from this tape and sticking them on the cuts. Earl told his boss about the invention. He liked the idea, and soon the first packs of the band-aid, called BAND-AID in the West (this is a trademark of Johnson & Johnson, which eventually became a household name), went on sale.

Adhesive plaster
BAND-AID patch

Unfortunately, we do not know if Josephine became a good cook, but the fact that she was the catalyst and actually the first user of a brilliant invention is a historical fact. And Earl Dixon was pleased. Over time, he became vice president of the company and remained in this post until his retirement.

Now it is impossible to imagine a first aid kit without a band-aid. Although in the first year the success of BAND-AID was rather modest - in 1921, plasters were sold for only $ 3000. But in 2001, a kind of anniversary was celebrated - by this time more than 100 billion adhesive plasters of this brand had been sold!

The patches have an effect on the skin, subcutaneous tissues and, in some cases, a general effect on the body. The patches can be in the form of a plastic mass with or without a backing or on an adhesive tape of a medicated pad. The composition of the patch mass, depending on the purpose of the patch, may include natural or synthetic rubbers approved for medical use, their mixtures, as well as other polymers, fat-like substances, natural oils, fillers, antioxidants and medicinal substances.

The plaster mass in appearance is a homogeneous mixture, dense at room temperature and softening, sticky at body temperature. Non-drug adhesive tape-like plasters (adhesive plasters) are used for fixing dressings and other purposes. The patches should be easy to remove from the skin.

The patches are available in packaging that protects them from external influences and ensures stability during the specified expiration date. Store them in a dry, dark place, unless otherwise indicated in the annotation.

Ordinary plasters are primarily divided into rolled and individually packaged, but there are also special types of plasters designed for specific tasks. The most common examples are the anti-smoking patch, the occlusion patch, and the patch to be worn after eye surgery.

Author: S.Apresov

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