Comvita Medical Woundcare[TM] 18+ and ApiNate[R] dressing.

As a newly formed division of Comvita NZ Ltd., Comvita Medical is set to revolutionise the global medical wound care arena. Utilising the healing attributes of honey that have been recognized for thousands of years across many cultures, we are matching state-of-the-art patented technologies to internationally manufacture and distribute innovative wound dressings for multiple wound types.

Comvita Medical has been developing stringent levels of quality control to ensure all the Manuka Honey used in wound dressing applications meet exacting contaminant free levels to achieve 'Medical Grade' standards. A unique accredited supplier programme further ensures that the Manuka Honey used in wound dressings is of the highest possible assured quality.

Research carried out at a New Zealand University over the last 20 years has identified UMF[R] Manuka Honey as a superior honey for wound healing.

Woundcare[TM] 18+ was launched by Comvita four years ago as a result of this research. It has proved itself to be efficacious and popular with the medical profession and consumers alike.

Honey helps to heal wounds by clearing them of infection, promoting wound tissue regrowth, lifting dead tissue, reducing odour and providing an ideal moist wound healing environment.

Research is currently being carried out in New Zealand and the United Kingdom using Manuka Honey; results of this research will increase the scientific knowledge base of this remarkable product from nature even further.

The UMF[R] (Unique Manuka Factor) number identifies the antibacterial strength of Manuka Honey relating it to the antibacterial action of phenol. Each Manuka Honey batch is independently tested for this activity ensuring product efficacy.

Sodium alginate, extracted from seaweed, has been developed into a revolutionary wound dressing material consisting of calcium alginate fibres. Calcium alginate fibres are highly absorbent, ensuring wound fluids do not ooze through dressings, forming a gel creating the ideal moist wound healing environment. Since their development, alginate products have advanced wound care worldwide.

Comvita Medical has developed a revolutionary new absorbent dressing by combining calcium alginate fibres with UMF[R] Active Manuka Honey. A superior dressing is created which has all the attributes of the ideal wound dressing:

* easily applied

* conforms to the wound bed

* able to absorb significant fluid exudate 

* keeps the wound moist

* does not stick to the wound allowing easy and pain-free wound dressing changes protecting the delicate superficial healing cells

* provides antibacterial and healing promoting activity of the UMF[R] Active Manuka Honey.

While alginate dressings have advanced wound care worldwide, it is the combination of alginate with antibacterial Active UMF[R] Manuka Honey in the ApiNate[R] dressings that has the ability to offer all the benefits of these remarkable fibres and makes ApiNate[R] so unique and universal.