He use of chitin and chitosan in manufacturing dressing materials

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Progress on Chemistry and Application of Chitin and its Derivatives, Volume XXV, 2020
DOI: 10.15259/PCACD.25.002 
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HE USE OF CHITIN AND CHITOSAN IN 
MANUFACTURING DRESSING MATERIALS
Ilona Latańska
1
, Beata Kolesińska
2
, Zbigniew Draczyński
3
,
Witold Sujka
1*
1 
Tricomed S.A., 
ul. Świętojańska 5/9, 93-493 Łódź, Poland
2 
Lodz University of Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry,
ul. Żeromskiego 116, 90-924 Lodz, Poland
3
 
Institute of Material Science of Textiles and Polymer Composites,
Lodz University of Technology,
Żeromskiego Street 116, 90-924 Lodz, Poland
*e-mail: [e-mail]
Abstract 
Despite continuous progress in the development of advanced dressing 
materials, there is a constant need for dressings used in an environment 
of infected and hard-to-heal wounds. Dressings that meet the above 
described requirements are products based on chitin and its derivatives. 
Chitosan and chitin derivative dressings are now becoming a very effective 
medical device in healing hard-to-heal wounds, as well as in the control 
of severely bleeding wounds. Chitosan and chitin are particularly valuable 
raw materials that accelerate wound healing processes, and they are 
also biocompatible and antibacterial. Dressings made of butyric-acetic 
chitin copolyester are intended for treating wounds of various aetiologies, 
including chronic wounds in which the healing process is disturbed
by concomitant diseases. Materials based on chitosan are also widely used 
in the area of heavily bleeding and chronic wounds.