Curad Bandage Dispenser With 5 Bandages Review

The Curad Bandage Dispenser With 5 Bandages is awful. They don't stick AT ALL. Pass these by.

When my husband came home from work with a hole clear through his jeans and leg, my first thought was to take him to the doctor's. But he's a macho, macho man and told me to just help him clean it and slap a bandage on it.

I grabbed my first aid kit and pulled out a gauze pad and a Curad Bandage Dispenser With 5 Bandages. These came in an emergency prepackaged kit and I am not sure the five bandage dispenser is sold separately any longer. It's a good thing. These things just do NOT stick!

This little dispenser is obviously for emergencies or travel. I suppose it would be best in a car glove box rather than a home first aid kid but I never even realized it was in there.

The kit is just a yellow cardboard sheath that you pull the bandages out of. Each is individually wrapped. The bandages are "flesh colored" with the usual white pad in the middle. The simplest of the simple. But I was only using them to secure the gauze pad until I could get something more appropriate.

I placed the gauze pad over the wound then peeled off the backing from one of the bandages. I placed four on his leg, one on each side of the square pad. These bandages are plastic and not stretchy like the better ones. However, we didn't need that. All we needed was for them to stick on his skin and the gauze pad for an hour or two.

But nooooo. They started peeling off almost immediately. The area was dry and most of the bandage was on his skin, yet I couldn't get these things to stay flat and stuck on my husband's thigh. The wound is not in area where the bandages would bend like a knee or a finger so I have no idea why they just popped the way they did. My kit is only a couple of months old so it isn't as if the bandages had been sitting around for years before I used them.

I ended up finding some white medical tape in my homemade first aid kit and using that over the bandages. What a mess.

Curad sells these exact same bandages in boxes of assorted sizes. Dreadful. The ones to avoid are called simply Curad Plastic Strips Sterile Bandages. The ones I saw were in a box of 80 in assorted sizes. They are cheap but they are useless.

If you get a first aid kit with the Curad Bandage Dispenser With 5 Bandages, immediately buy better bandages because, when you need them to stick on a wound, these will fail you.

These are like plastic strips with a touch of honey as adhesive on the back. They don't stick, they barely have any adhesive, and they're bottom of the barrel as far as features like flexibility, water resistance, etc.

1 star. Booooo.