Clothes will contain pharmaceutical ingredients – smart medical textiles bring health

In recent years, the textile industry has combined with high technologies such as chemistry, electronics, information and communications, making future clothes not only comfortable and beautiful, but also good for health and improving work efficiency. Germany’s Hohenstein Medical Research Institute is conducting a research and development project to make clothes contain pharmaceutical ingredients to prevent or treat some related diseases.

This kind of clothing that can be worn healthily is based on a microcapsule developed by researchers, which is then embedded in fabric using high-tech textile technology. Clothes made of this kind of fabric can be used when the patient wears the drug in the fabric. After contact with the skin, it will react and exert a therapeutic effect. The Hohenstein Institute currently hopes to prioritize the development of fabrics to treat skin diseases such as eczema, before developing T-shirts to treat headaches, socks to eliminate fungal infections on the feet, vitamin-rich stockings and silver-plated underwear to treat dermatitis. Pants etc.

The Hohenstein Medical Research Institute has recently completed a smart medical jacket for first responders. Since first responders often face a variety of injured or sick people, they sometimes have to deal with many unforeseen emergencies, even very serious and dangerous situations, and they also have to fight for opportunities. For example, the SARS epidemic that broke out in the first half of this year put great pressure on first responders. Now the newly invented medical jacket will help first responders deal with many difficult problems.

This kind of medical jacket has wearing and electronic data processing functions, allowing first responders to understand the status of the injured or patient in a very short time, and transmit it back to the emergency vehicle or hospital through the CMS antenna. In addition, the medical jacket is also equipped with a USB interface to provide first responders with Using cameras to record the condition of the injured allows doctors to have more time to fully understand the condition of the injured or patient before they arrive at the hospital, thereby improving medical effectiveness.

The Hohenstein Medical Research Institute has other new results. They used a new type of laminated fabric to develop a new surgical cover that not only has a high-efficiency isolation effect and good breathability, but can also be paired with a solar cell jacket. This jacket It is equipped with 72 very efficient flexible solar cells, and the electricity generated is stored in a rechargeable battery, which not only powers the electronic devices integrated in the clothing, but also can power watches and portable computers.