Wound and bandage protection system and method

Abstract

A wound/bandage protector configured as a wrap, a sock/mitten, or a bandage may be made out of stretchable material. The wrap may have one or more fastening straps as well as possibly a first catch fastening surface. The sock/mitten may have a fastening strap and a sheath. The wrap, the sock/mitten, and the bandages may have apertures and aperture covers. In addition, the wound/bandage protectors as well as the bandages may have diamond or triangular gauze configurations with the gauze pad having three or four primary corners, the primary corners of the gauze pad in most instances being oriented towards edges of the body portion or length or width tangents of the body portion, preferably mid-points or mid-sections of the length or width tangents or body portion edges.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A bandage, comprising:
 a body portion comprising a wound facing side and a non-wound facing side; and   a gauze pad disposed on the wound facing side,   wherein the gauze pad comprises a first side, a second side connected to the first side, a third side connected to the second side, and a fourth side connected to the first and third sides,   wherein the first to fourth sides are not parallel to length tangents or width tangents of the body portion.   
     
     
         2 . The bandage of  claim 1 , wherein
 a first corner of the gauze pad formed by the first and second sides is oriented toward a mid-point of a first length tangent of the body portion,   a second corner of the gauze pad formed by the second and third sides is oriented toward a mid-point of a first width tangent of the body portion,   a third corner of the gauze pad formed by the third and fourth sides is oriented toward a mid-point of a second length tangent of the body portion, and   a fourth corner of the gauze pad formed by the first and fourth sides is oriented toward a mid-point of a second width tangent of the body portion.