There are lots of ways that you can treat abrasions but this is the least fuss way and it will heal the fastest. Unfortunately the semi-permeable membrane dressings like Tegaderm are hard to find because they are not marketed to the general public. Try medical supply places. It also works well to put on the kids skinned up knees and such.

There are some products that combine the semi-permeable membrane with an absorbent gel. These are actually a bit better than the semi-permeable membrane products but I think they are not quite so user friendly and they are considerably more expensive. Duoderm is an example of such a product. These work very well for "drier" wounds, like bedsores or chronic leg ulcers. My experience is that wetter wounds like abrasions will fill the gel so rapidly that the dressing will need to be changed daily, negating the no fuss aspect of the semi-permeables and upping the cost quite a bit.

Conventional dressings work pretty well too but they require daily dressing changes. Since they can't be worn while bathing, often this means more frequent than daily dressing changes, particularly for the active athlete. They also do not relieve discomfort as well as the semi-permeables. To use conventional dressings appropriately they need to be layered. The first layer needs to be a fine mesh "non-adherent" type material, like Adaptic, Vaseline Gauze or Xeroform. "Non- adherent" is actually a misnomer since the goal of this layer is to allow the stuff that comes out of the wound to go through this layer and then be removed with the dressing change. A true non-adherent dressing, e.g. Telfa or Band-Aid, does not work well since all it does is absorb the liquid from the wound but is still allows scabbed material to form over the wound. In addition, the plastics in these type dressings often cause the wound margins to macerate, i.e. get full of water and turn white, which will inhibit wound healing. The cheapest way to do the non-adherent layer is to take an old bed sheet, cut it in the appropriate size, smear it with Vaseline and then apply to the wound. The bed sheet material has about the right mesh size. The non-adherent material should be applied only 1-layer thick. Over the top of the non-adherent layer you put some absorbent gauze pads and then hold the whole thin in place with some elastic dressing retainer, like the fishnet material that the OBRA first aid people use, or tape and/or Ace bandages.

On areas that it is difficult to cover with a dressing, like the face, it works best to just clean the wound frequently, 3-4 times per day, and then keep a good layer of something greasy like Vaseline on the wound. If you do this wound fluids will not be able to congeal together to form a scab and the wound will heal quicker.  Medical Supply