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A Rock-Solid
Adhesive

Well, it’s sort of a system.
Many type ones who wear pumps and CGM’s struggle to find a method to keep adhesives doing what they’re supposed to do… Be Sticky!!!. Most of the issues are the adhesive on the infusion site tape don’t hold up more that a couple days before they start peeling off. And if you’re athletic or spend days in the Outdoors exposed to the elements or spend any time at all in salt water, then, you know those adhesives aren’t going to last long at all.

I’ve tried everything from medical adhesives to prosthetic adhesives to tegaderm tape to IV3000 to NewSkin liquid band aid.

Varying results. Some not great. Some absolutely horrible. 

 

There’s five qualities I look for in successfulness in the adhesive game plan…

  1.  Stickyness. It’s got to be sticky, and stay sticky under the dressing for an extended time.
  2. Hypoallergenic. It can’t get itchy. It will drive you crazy if it irritates your skin. Once it’s set, it needs to be out of mind, and out of mind. Invisible, if you will. You shouldn’t have to be reminded it’s there.
  3. Flexible and stretchy. It has to move like your skin does otherwise it will peel off.
  4.  Resistant to Sweat and Salt water. The two biggest enemy’s to skin adhesives. Athletic type ones know, if you sweat with an infusion site, a three day site will be done in a day and a half.
    Ever been snorkeling in salt water with your Dexcom transmitter. The day you go snorkeling is the day the transmitter comes off.
  5.  Removable. On change day, I need an easy solvent solution that will get this adhesive and the dressing to go from 100% to 0% with no fuss. (quick answer… UniSolve or TacAway)

So, the solution I have found is a combination of Skin Tac (liquid adhesive) and Kinesiology tape or KT tape (as the dressing)

I wear a pump and a CGM, and use this adhesive plan on both. So what I do is, I get a roll of Kinesiology from practically any chemist, drug store, sporting goods stores, even Target. I cut these shapes in the kinesiology tape that make an addition to the dressing which hike the infusion site in place and connects the dressing to the skin.

The combination of Skin Tac and the KT-Tape holds really, really well.

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