like polymer obtainable by aqueous solution polymerization of acrylamide or a monomeric mixture consisting mainly of acrylamide in a high monomer concentraton using polyethylene glycol where the hydrogel like polymer has already been formed the adhesiveness of the polymer can be reduced by merely applying polyethylene glycol to the surface of the polymer where it is desired to obtain a hydrogel like polymer whose adhesiveness has been reduced a very simple method of performing the polymerization in the presence of polyethylene glycol can be used to achieve the desired objective application_number US 75827577 A description the acrylamide type polymer to which this invention is applicable must be substantially elastic and have some degree of rigidity if the concentration of the starting monomer is too low at the time of polymerization the resulting polymeric gel becomes soft and difficult to treat for example when an acrylamide polymer having an average molecular weight of about 8 million is desired the lower limit of the concentration of the starting monomer is about 18 by weight examples of the acrylamide type polymers to which this invention is applicable are polyacrylamide a partially hydrolyzed product of polyacrylamide and water soluble copolymers of acrylamide with other vinyl monomers as comonomers examples of vinyl comonomers which can be used to.