Fiber Dressing

Gentell’s medical grade Manuka honey wound care dressings are highly effective in closing difficult and chronic wounds and healing wounds in less time. In most cases, you see the effect of our manuka honey at the first dressing change. In moderate to highly exudative wounds, our honey fiber dressings show immediate effects of managing exudate and maintaining a moist wound environment.

Gentell wound care dressings are covered by most insurances.The Manuka Honey Fiber Dressing (2x2” and 4x5” sizes) has Medicare Part B coverage for daily use. This means national 3rd party billers use these options as part of their recommendations to wound centers.

Under a doctor’s supervision, Gentell Manuka Honey sterile single-use dressings are indicated for leg ulcers, pressure ulcers, 1st and 2nd degree burns (superficial and partial thickness), diabetic foot ulcers, surgical wounds, traumatic wounds, skin tears, and skin grafts including the donor site.

Manuka Honey Skin Protectant Cream is most effective for chapped or cracked skin, dry, itchy skin, eczema, sunburns, and minor burns.

Gentell’s medical grade Manuka honey wound care dressings should be applied at the commencement of wound treatment through to closure completion. For most chronic wounds this means after surgical debridement at day 1 of the post sharp debridement process. Manuka Honey is exceptional as maintenance debridement and works by inhibiting plasmin activator inhibitor (PAI) allowing more natural plasmin into the wound bed. Patients gain the special bioactive properties of Manuka Honey including the anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial protection effects throughout their treatment. 

Gentell Manuka Honey wound care products are all US FDA cleared as sterile single-use 510(k) medical devices. Gentell employs other internal quality standards to ensure the highest and most consistent medical grade honey is delivered into every dressing.

During the first week of use the dressings should be changed every 1 to 3 days, then as needed. Nurses can assess when the dressing is fully absorbed and would change at this time. Manuka Honey Fiber Dressing should be changed daily.

Manuka Honey (Leptospermum scoparium) from Gentell is a very high potency medical grade honey. It comes from a monofloral source for consistency and is superior to other medical grade honeys as measured by the methylglyoxal concentration and anti-bacterial activity. Gentell has proprietary processes and quality controls to produce its medical grade honey and wound dressings, and is ISO certified for medical devices.

Gentell Manuka Honey products are made with 100% manuka honey (Leptospermum scoparium), which is a very high potency medical grade honey. Our Manuka honey is monoflorally sourced for consistency and is superior to other medical grade honeys as measured by the methylglyoxal concentration and anti-bacterial activity. Other ingredients for our Skin Protectant Cream may include natural soothing agents such as Kukui oil and Shea butter.

Gentell Manuka Honey (Leptospermum scoparium) honey wound dressings are superior in performance to other honey wound dressings and versus silver gel in vitro. Gentell Manuka Honey dressings also have no known resistance to any pathogen and Manuka honey is not cytotoxic as some silver dressings are. Because Manuka Honey is not ionic it can be used in and with hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Gentell Manuka Honey wound care dressings are very simple and easy to apply and change.Nursing teams have reported in burn and wound centers as well as home care environments the dressings are very easy to change. The dressings have the structural integrity to be durable, yet the dressings are highly flexible and conformable to the surface area of the wound area.

Yes, Gentell Manuka Honey (Leptospermum scoparium) wound dressings have a high sugar content which reduces wound bed odor.

Yes! Gentell Manuka Honey products are always 100% Manuka Honey with no chance of contamination and go through a rigorous proprietary quality control process (called Quality Bioactive Testing), which strictly controls all production aspects of Gentell honey, ensuring the most pure, stable, and consistently potent product.