How to care after amputation? What rules exist? What can be done and what is impossible after amputation? Answers to these questions you will find in the article.
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In order to contain the skin of the cult (part limb, remaining after amputation, injury or caused by congenital malformation) in normal
condition, you need every night before bedtime
wash it with soap and warm water, then good
wash. Be sure to wash soap, otherwise
It will irritate the skin. It is impossible for a long time
Water culture. Carefully dry up a soft towel.
Preferably several times a day massage
Cultu. It can not shave, apply creams
or lubricate liquids containing alcohol.
It should be wrapped with a culture elastic bandage,
and shoot it only during bathing or
Massage. Special attention should be paid to cleanliness
Elastic bandage: It should be washed with soap
and warm water no less than two days. Dry,
dismiss.
It is necessary to perform 2 complex of physical
exercises for the cult - with a wrapped bandage
And when removed. It is necessary to be active,
walk with a rollover or crutches. During
walking should be kept near another
legs. Resting, it is impossible to be described onto a roleplate
or on metal parts of crutches.
Should also contain in proper order
prostheses. With the same frequency, with what kind of you are
cult, you need to wash, wipe and dry
prostheses. Prostheses can be cleaned
Alcohol solutions. If necessary,
You can pour talc (baby powder).
If stockings or sponge are used in the prosthesis,
They should also be washed daily for,
to protect the skin of the cult of inflammation.
Care rules
What can I do:
- daily wash the cult and prosthesis
- wrapping it with an elastic bandage or stockings (if necessary)
- Often to interbore the cult
- Often wash the elastic bandage, stocking
- To strengthen the cult as you can often walk
- Strengthen the cult with exercise
- achieve the mobility of the cult, taking the right position
- When walking, sitting or lying, for some time to lines the knee
What you can not do:
- For a long time to wet a cult in water
- Shave the cult
- Lubricate the culture of liquids containing alcohol
- For a long time to sit
- sit with crossed legs
- Sit, putting a cult on chairs for armrests
- In order to rest, put a cult on the handle a walker or crutch
