Elastoplast 3 in 1 Silverhealing

************ Due to popular demand (or the fact that you're all a wee bit sick and twisted) there's now a photo of my wounded heel at the bottom. You'll look at it and be amazed by my pain tolerance. It's a rubbish photo (bear in mind that I was very pissed, and taking that photo at a bizarre angle was the last thing I did before I collapsed) that looks a lot like my foot's been amputated, but rest assured, the shoes aren't THAT bad. I'll expect you all to be properly sympathetic, now that you've seen the evidence. ************ Well, it's Sunday, and I'm writing a review so you'd be correct in ... more

Elastoplast Silver Healing plasters are a range of plasters with silver ions in the pad which it is claimed speed the healing process and help to prevent infection. This is a new product on the shelves of chemists and supermarkets but does it work? Silver has been known to be a potent antimicrobial agent for quite a long time - the Romans used silver nitrate for healing purposes. Silver ion rapidly kills microbes and silver has been shown to be non-toxic to humans so the inclusion of silver into wound dressings would seem to be logical. Recent developments have seen silver used in burn ... more