Mattress should be breathable, moderate hardness and good water absorption. Plate should be flat, dry, clean, without wrinkles, slag and debris. The sheets should be pure cotton. In addition, a pure cotton bath towel can be laid on the bed sheet for easy replacement.
To keep patients' skin clean and dry, the usual method is to take a bath with warm water 1-2 times a day. When scrubbing, you can't use a strong irritating detergent, and you can't wipe it hard to prevent skin damage. For sweaty armpits and abdominal muscle grooves, you can always wipe them with a small towel.
Strengthening nutrition, another factor of bedsore is that malnutrition leads to the decrease of skin resistance, so patients with bedsore should eat some nutritious and easily absorbed food, and can't eat spicy food such as pepper. Eat more vegetable oils, such as peanut oil, sesame oil, soybean oil and rapeseed oil. It has the effect of moistening the intestines.
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Nursing methods in different periods:
The key to early care of erythema is to turn over and decompress, change the inherent posture, and the patient will get better gradually, but for a little longer. During erythema, care should be taken not to give massage, local hot compress and other measures, which may aggravate internal injuries and hypoxia.
In the blister stage, if the blister is not broken, we should guard against friction and prevent it from breaking. If the blister has been broken, you can use a sterile syringe to extract the liquid from the blister, wash it with normal saline, and then bandage it. A little carelessness in the blister stage will cause infection.