What is bed sore? Bed sore is known as a phenomenon of people suffering from bedridden condition like coma, paralysis. Imagine you have to sit 8 hours for work, how tired, aches and pains your buttocks are. With the disabled patients, it will be an extreme nightmare and the body areas endured by pressure such as buttocks, back, shoulder blades become pressure ulcer and also infection on the surface of skin.
What are the main causes of bed sore? The common point between influenced subjects is staying the same position in a long time. Undue friction between body surface and bed along with pressure caused by gravity are the main reason of bed sores.
Pay more attention if one person is under these conditions
• Using corticosteroid drugs, which are steroid anti- inflammatory drugs. Beside anti- inflammation, corticosteroid decreases metabolism in the body and makes blood glucose higher than normal. Continuous using corticoid may lead to diabetes- cause bed sores.
• Consciousness lessening and excretion incontinence that the patient is unable to control fecal and urinary excretion
• Low nutrition, dehydration and smoking
How can you realize bed sore?
The stages of bed sore are decided as how severity bed sore is.
• The earliest stage is when you feel the itchy and tender feeling in identified area. And if you press the area with your finger and see it no white, this person is suffering from slight bed sore. But in case the person has darker skin instead of white or pale skin, the patch become red, blue or even purple when you press, so it is not easy to discover bed sore if the skin tone is not white enough. The skin temperature is quite different from other area, it might be cold, warm.
• The patch then develops and becomes blister or scratch. However, the development has not reached through thickness of skin. You can find the change of red discoloration, some oozing. After that, the ulcer invades skin insider.
• And the last stage, if there no treatment, the ulcer develops until joint, muscle and even bone.
In that case the ulcer is in high risk of infection, especially in hip ulcer or the surroundings around genital areas, feces and urine make conditions worse and hard for treatment. Bad smell, drainage, fever are severe signs of bed sore.
What are the treatments of bed sore?
The best way to prevent bed sore is mobility. Moving not only helps circulation through body but also avoid constant pressure on the body. But with bedridden or disabled patients, they can’t do it themselves, ask for help to change position every hour. Moreover, exercise for the range of motion is really useful to prevent contracture, improve circulation in impacted area. As the patient go to sleep, use the pulling sheet to change position in bed or lift the bed over 30 degrees to reduce the shearing force.
But there are home remedies for bed sore that we would like to recommend you in this articles which are really useful.
