For some people, care for lying patients is a job. But none of us is insured against the need to care for someone from relatives with limited physical abilities. Our site will tell you what you need to know to ensure normal care of the patient and facilitate life.
This is not taught in schools, however, such knowledge may be needed (God forbid, of course), each of us at any time. I remember, in what shock my mother was, when our 80-year-old grandmother broke the neck of the thigh. When the grandmother lay in traumatology, professionals were cared for her, but when it was discharged, Mom simply did not imagine what to do next: how to buy, how to feed, how to fight straland and t. NS.
How to equip a bed for a lying patient
With that, everything begins. Of course, there may be different diseases, but, as a rule, a sufficiently high, solid bed. You can buy a special, and you can convert the usual shell. We put an old smooth door on the bed (you can use wide boards), weighted with two smooth mattresses.
More convenient to the patient's bed to face the entrance to the room, but at the same time it should have a survey on the street, through the window. It is important for a person who can not move.
If we are talking about an elderly person with poor coordination of movements, you need to take care that he could not fall from the bed. For this free edge «blocked» Removable board. We guessed to do it too late, in a dream the grandmother fell out of bed and broke the leg re. Therefore, take care of this nuance in advance. If the patient can sit in bed, it's great. However, without assistance, it will be difficult for him to do it. We decided this issue so - a thick rope was tied to the headboard (2 cm with a diameter). Grandmother with her help herself herself until we were at home to read or just change the position. Nearby near the beds, place a high bedside table so that the necessary accessories of the patient (medicine, wet napkins, water and t.NS.) were always in free access.
Feeding and swimming a lying patient
These two procedures you will do too often, so you need to optimize them. Let's start with feeding. If your sick, like my grandmother, is able to sit on your own, I recommend purchasing a special table. It can be bought in the online store, and in business stores (where plastic products sell). Not be sure to buy a bamboo table for breakfast in bed. Buy plastic for 5-6 dollars, which resembles a spread on folding legs. Very convenient - the sick village and eats himself. If necessary, and for convenience under its back, you can put several solid pillows.
If the patient can not get up and / or there is independently (one part of the body is paralyzed, for example), you will have to feed it. In this case, you can use plastic dishes for young children. There are comfortable drinkers - unpoles for broths, tea and juice. Deep plates on suckers and plastic spoons that cannot be burned or injured the oral cavity. Cheap Releases CANPOL firm, they are sold in each pharmacy.
Bathing patients also needed regularly - this will prevent the appearance of the Padder and laying out. Patients wipped with a soft sponge dipped in warm water and shampoo (better than children), thoroughly washing the places of skin folds (armpits, female folds, elbow bends, paha region). Before the procedure, so as not to dunk the bed, you can set up a patient with one-time diapers on an adhesive basis or the usual «Redhead» pharmacycloth and sheet. You need to wipe the skin to dry, then severely tightened with camphor alcohol, and places in which can arise, lubricate with children's cream.
Hygiene questions
Clean the natural physiological needs of the patient can in different ways. One suitable ship, others are able to use the chair-toilet. The rest save diapers for adults. Especially they will help in those cases, if you can not constantly look after the sick and are forced to leave for several hours.
Adult diapers - the pleasure is not cheap. But they simply save and patients (prevention of bedside, convenience) and caring people (the opportunity to leave, no need to change linen daily). Buy them better wholesale. You can via the Internet (if you live in a big city, you do not have to pay delivery), but you can find the company's sales representative in the network, hygiene products (for example, Seni) and agree on the wholesale purchase of two packs per month. So you will save 7-8 dollars on each package.
I also want to say about wet napkins. Buy big packaging marked «For sensitive skin», they are sufficiently dense, do not cause irritation and care great.
Prolesidery and prevention of lung inflammation
Prolesidery - this is a real problem. They arise from constant pressure on a certain area of skin and limited access to air. Prolesidery need to be treated immediately, otherwise in a few days they can turn into ulcers. So, so that there were no sores, it is necessary to change the patient's position as often as possible, take breaks in wearing diapers, to ensure that there are no folds and crumbs to massage the problem areas of the body and lubricate them with camphor alcohol. In stores Medtekhniki sell special rubber circles for the prevention of bedsores, which must be periodically put under the places with the greatest risk.
If the breakdowns still appeared, I recommend to urgently do the following procedure. First, the skin you need to dry the paper napkin or a clean soft cloth. Then apply syntomicin ointment or levomecole. They are not expensive and very effective. Wait until the ointment is absorbed and swim in a potato starch or a special powder (it can be bought in stores for newborns). If the breakdown has already turned into an ulcer, buy a solkoceryl gel, generously lubricate them affected skin, wait for a complete drying.
Prolesidery - this is not the most terrible problem for lying patients. Often in people chained to bed, there are lungs in the lungs and even pneumonia. In order not to happen this, you need to move as often as possible, to inflate balloons daily or blowing into a plastic bottle.
Only positive
Care for lying patients - Heavy Labor. But the patient is even worse. And not only physically, but also psychologically. All day lie in bed, look at the ceiling and go crazy from terrible thoughts - this is a nightmare! So try to entertain the patient - using TV, books, magazines, guests. About the last I will say that the arrival of friends and loved ones very seeks the life of the patient. He understands that he remembers him that he needed to people.
My grandmother dreamed so much to get up after the first Frel, that even tried to stand and with our help went to the courtyard on a wheelchair. The second fall crashed all her dreams, but after repeated X-ray, we were told that the neck of the hip would have grown! Now I understand that faith in recovery is 80% of success.
I wish your close speedy recovery and faith in your own strength!
