Allergic to steri-strips??

That's me! I found out I was totally allergic to the adhesive on ALL surgical tape. Blisteres, rash, all the same. I had to endure it and then used a med the doc prescibed.  Sorry!

omg yes...i was soooo worried it was staph ..... i must be allergic to all adhesives and latex...yeah.....still itches and i look like a i have five burn marks,.....itching makes me nuts.....
thank you all for this post ...

I didn't become allergic to them until I had my plastics in September. The steri-strips used for the tummy tuck portion was fine. The ones for my thigh lift though caused blisters all the way down both legs! After removeing the strips, the plastic surgeon had me use bactitracin on the blisters. Shortly after that, I developed issues with my intestines and ended up on a wound-vac..which, my belly absolutely hated that tape...even when they would use skin prep to try to protect it some. Now, I'm down to just doing wet-gauze bandage changes to where paper tape is ok to use. My skin doesn't really care for it either but at least it doesn't react quite as badly. I do feel like I'm battling that allergy though. The wound will close up some and a new blister will rip the skin open an inch away from the wound so I have to do a wet-gauze on that spot too. I'll be having a surgery March 3rd to close up that opening (and repair a hernia that the whole intestine thing brought on). It's going to be interesting to see what they put on the incision line then! lol. Don't you just love our changing bodies???? Sherri

I have felt all the pain from the above posts.  FORTUNATELY, before my RNY on March 25th, I told my surgeon [and anyone else who would listen] that  steri-strips caused me great discomfort.   Because I have a terrific surgeon  he listened and said, "No problem, we'll just use superglue [AKA: Derma-bond].  Aside from one scab falling off too soon [in my opinion] due to the fact that it's at my waistband and receives a lot of friction, I've had no problems with my incisions.

My advice for pre-ops and for those who may have to have surgery again is to explain and just ask if there's not something else they can use.

Sorry it's too late for those who are suffering...