Mepilex® Lite - clinically proven¹ to reduce damage and discomfort

Of the 900,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer every year, most are treated with radiation therapy and 80-90% of them develop erythema.

One clinically proven way to treat erythema or worse skin damage is to use Mepilex Lite – a dressing that significantly reduces skin damage compared to aqueous creams.¹

Mepilex Lite is comfortable to wear and soothes the damaged skin. Friction is reduced and normal clothes can be worn.

Mepilex Lite also lowers the risk of more serious skin damage developing.¹

How to apply Mepilex Lite

• Clean the wound or affected skin with lukewarm water and dry the surrounding skin by patting with a clean towel. Moist wounds may also be cleaned using saline solution 0.9% and sterile swabs.
• Cut the Mepilex Lite dressing to the required size, making sure that it will overlap onto healthy skin by at least 2cm all round.
• Remove the protective film and apply the Mepilex Lite to the wound or damaged area, avoiding stretching the dressing while you apply it. If necessary, secure Mepilex Lite using a bandage, sling or Tubifast™ 2-Way Stretch. Wearing a seamless bra is also a good way to keep the dressing in place.

More hints for use

• In the case of erythema or dry desquamation (hot, red skin that may also be peeling), Mepilex Lite may be worn for up to 7 days.
• For a moist wound, replace your Mepilex when it is saturated with wound fluid.
• Your dressing should be removed before showering.
• Your radiotherapist or oncologist will decide whether the dressing can remain in place during irradiation.
• Dressings, changed as needed, should be used for at least two weeks after radiotherapy. If ointment is used under a Mepilex dressing, make sure the dressing is large enough to have a dry edge that will have good contact with dry skin.

1. Diggelmann KV et al. Mepilex Lite dressings for the management of radiation-induced erythema: a systematic in-patient controlled clinical trial. The British Journal of Radiology, 2010.