Patent ID: 8490791

Claim:
A kit for protecting at least one of a dressing and a traumatized area of skin of a human body, the kit comprising: a case having an interior volume; a plurality of components positioned within said case, said plurality of components being sized and structured for use together in protecting one of a dressing on a traumatized area of skin, said components including at least one sheet and a container of adhesive; the at least one sheet being flexible and waterproof; the at least one sheet being of a non-allergenic material; the at least one sheet having a size and a shape non-dedicated to a size or shape of a dressing having been applied to an area of skin or a size or shape of a traumatized area of skin; the size and a thickness of the at least one sheet being suitable for being removed from the case and cut into a protection cover having a size that is a fraction of the size of the at least one sheet; the at least one sheet being non-coated with adhesive on a surface to face the skin; the protection cover requiring adhesive to be added, after removal of the sheet from the case, to adhere the protection cover relative to the skin; the adhesive containing a pasty, waterproof, and non-allergenic adhesive, the adhesive being suitable so as to allow adherence to both the skin of the human body, in an area surrounding the dressing, or traumatized area of skin, and to the protection cover; the container having an extrusion opening structured to facilitate depositing a closed peripheral bead of the adhesive only onto the skin surrounding the dressing or traumatized area and, with the protection cover applied upon the closed peripheral bead of the adhesive, to facilitate placing an impermeable barrier isolating the dressing or traumatized area of skin beneath the protection cover from contaminants.