Mepitel is the dressing of choice for a wound with minimal drainage. It is a nonadherent dressing to moist wound beds but adheres ultra-gently to dry skin (Bayer Health Care Partners, 2000).

"Only a few days following this treatment, the terrible wound began healing and within a couple of days, it had closed completely," says Isabelle Laumer, a cognitive biologist and primatologist at ...

Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal plant, the first time this behavior has been documented. Rakus, a male ...

Deep in the rain forests of Indonesia, there’s no such thing as running to the pharmacy for soap and bandages to tend to a fresh wound. People living in the area have coped by turning the forest ...

Their similarity to humans doesn’t stop there. Researchers have observed a male orangutan treat a wound on his face with a plant that’s also used in human medicine. It’s the first time any ...

A person should follow their doctor’s recommendations on when to change their dressing and what to use to wrap their wound. If a person finds it difficult to bandage the location of the tumor or ...

An orangutan has been seen treating a wound using a plant with known pain-relieving properties, marking the first known instance of a wild animal deliberately tending to its injuries with medicine.

A wild orangutan was observed applying a plant with known medicinal properties to a wound, a first for a wild animal. Even though there is evidence of certain self-medication behaviors in animals ...

May 2 (Reuters) - In June 2022, a male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus sustained a facial wound below the right eye, apparently during a fight with another male orangutan at the Suaq Balimbing ...

In short: Researchers saw Rakus the orangutan chewing on leaves, then applying the resulting juice and paste to cover a facial wound. Five days later the wound was closed, and a month later fully ...

Sudden reappearance of the inflammatory phase in wounds in the absence of trauma usually indicates an infection. While all wounds are considered contaminated and are associated with some degree of ...

An orangutan in Indonesia has been observed appearing to treat a wound with a medicinal tropical plant – the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies ...