Patent ID: 7485111

Claim:
A method of preparing a stretchable sleeve, the method comprising: (a) providing the sleeve in an outside-out configuration, the sleeve having a first open end and a second open end, wherein the two open ends are interconnected by a passage surrounded by an interior surface of the sleeve, the sleeve comprising: (i) a medicinal section adapted to be loaded with a medicinal composition; and (ii) a perforated section comprising a plurality of openings, each opening being about 0.3 mm to 3 cm in its longest dimension in a relaxed state of the sleeve, wherein the medicinal section and the perforated section overlap when the passage of the sleeve is collapsed and wherein the medicinal section and the perforated section are located at circumferentially opposite side of each other, and wherein the passage of the sleeve is sized so that the interior surface of the sleeve contacts a body portion when it is inserted into the passage of the sleeve through the open ends; (b) collapsing the sleeve with the perforated section facing the top and the medicinal section facing the bottom; and (c) applying the medicinal composition from the top such that the medicinal composition is received on the interior surface of the medicinal section through the openings of the perforated section.