Just a few days ago I was in the food store (it’s called something else but I forget what) and I saw boxes of bandaids that have silver in them. At first I thought it was some weird fad, you know like Chia-Pets, but it turns out that silver is a natural antimicrobial. I did a little searching around and discovered that you can get all sorts of things with silver in them, shits, socks being the most common. The ‘wound dressings’ (Band-Aid is a trademark after all and this stuff can be used to cover tools as well) were the coolest by far.
The Silver Collagen Antimicrobial Gel Sheet is a hydrated denatured porcine collagen produced by polymerization. It maintains a moist environment at the wound surface that aids in granulation tissue formation, epithelialization, and enables healing to occur at a rapid rate. The sustained release of ionic silver into the wound creates an effective barrier to fungal penetration and is effective as a method to reduce infection of partial and full thickness wounds.
Wound and Gadget Coating from Covalon