Healing Bed Sores
Healing Bedsores with care !
Bedsores are really common with elderly and those who are bed ridden, hospitalized or immobile. The reason being staying in one position for a prolonged period of time that stops the flow of blood and results in ulcers and sores that are highly painful. Caring for bedsores is the only method of healing them.
Healing bedsores often requires a diligent effort. To heal bedsores it really becomes important to understand their actual symptoms. Depending upon the severity, bedsores are classified as:
- Stage 1 of irritation on the skin
- Stage 2, when the skin blisters
- Stage 3, when the skin thickens
- Stage 4, when it reaches the muscle
Healing bedsores become difficult and very painful once the problem increases. Thus, it becomes important to prevent severness and treat the patient at the initial stage only to heal bedsore.
Bedsore mattresses play a vital role in treating such ailment.
- These are highly effective and really easy to use mattresses with 165 bubbles.
- For 6-7 minutes, 50% of the bubbles are inflated and automatically deflates thereafter.
- Similarly the rest of the 50% are inflated, continuing the cycle likewise. This cycle is capable of preventing necrosis of skin and the underneath tissues.
- Bedsore mattresses raise the body upto 2 inch by inflation of these bubbles thereby making passage for air flow.
Apart from bedsore mattresses, taking proper care of the wound is again important. Some wound care remedies are as follows:
- The wound is required to be kept clean and dry along with the area around the ulcer.
- Saline solution is used to clean before applying a fresh non stick dressing in bedsore treatment as antiseptics and soaps tent to damage the tissues.
- Wound care supplies are available with any druggist store and aids in ceasing further inflammation.
- Once the first stage is crossed, the basic requirement for wound care supplies too increases. Keeping a track with the doctor and ensuring that right treatment is provided to the patients is very important in healing bedsores.
Once the first stage is crossed, the basic requirement for wound care increases. Keeping a track with the doctor and ensuring that right treatment is provided to the patients is very important in healing bedsores.
- A mixture of magnesia and iodine
- Vitamins like A, B Complex, C and E
- Folic Acid
- Zinc Tablets
- Lysol spray
- Applying honey and lecithin
- Herbal, being a natural method always outscores over antibiotics. Aloe vera and a mixture of sugar and honey will prevent the sore from becoming poisonous.