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To help avoid the smell and risk of infection related to incontinence, it’s important to focus on a combination of hygiene, proper product use, and personal care strategies.
1. Good Hygiene Practices, Clean the affected skin immediately after any accidents, and use a mild, unscented soap to prevent irritation. This helps to reduce bacterial build-up, which can lead to both odors and infections. It's crucial to dry the skin thoroughly afterward, as moisture encourages bacterial growth.
2. Regular Product Changes, Incontinence pads and other products should be changed frequently, ideally every few hours, to prevent the odor and moisture that can lead to skin infections and urinary tract infections (UTIs). It's also important to select the right size to avoid leaks.
3. **Odor-Reducing Products**: Many incontinence products include odor-blocking technology, which can help keep unpleasant smells under control. Products with moisture-wicking features can also prevent prolonged skin contact with urine or feces.
4. Hydration Staying hydrated is key to reducing the concentration and odor of urine. Drinking sufficient water dilutes the urine, which can help reduce strong smells.
By combining these tips with the right care products, individuals can manage incontinence more effectively, minimizing both odor and the risk of infection.
Total incontinence requires a more substantial product than Depends. Try adult diapers (incontinence briefs). Both Walmart and Walgreens carry their own brand, which is decent quality. Assurance and Certainty are the names.
I personally like the Tena Stretch tab briefs. Very absorbent and the stretch tabs allow you to get a good fit. They are a little bulky between the legs, though.
These must be changed frequently. At LEAST 3 times daily. Buy small trash bags and close them up and remove from the house immediately.
Cleaning! Lots of cleaning is how you mitigate smells. The person's skin - private parts, must be cleaned regularly in between diaper changes. Use Adult size disposable wipes. My routine is to use a wash basin (basically, just a large plastic bowl) with warm soapy water for the first morning diaper change. I thoroughly and gently wash the groin, front and back. Pat dry, and apply a barrier cream to the buttocks to prevent or protect bedsores.
Keep everything clean! Wash your hands, take out the soiled diaper in a trash bag, protect the bed and any chairs with washable underpads, and /or disposable underpads. Soiled clothing will need to be washed, or at leased rinsed out or soaked immediately. I use about a tablespoon of Dawn dishsoap and 1/4 cup of distilled vinegar in the washer. Some items require more than one washing to get the smells out. If you can, hanging smelly laundry outside in the sun will help to eliminate odors.
BTW: I have a separate waste can in my back yard to keep the soiled diaper trash until trash pick up day. My large household garbage can is in the garage, and the soiled diaper waste will make it smell!
My father has www incontinence- j guess same applies for any so he uses disposable pants we have wipes and a plastic washing bowl with a flannel and a little disinfectant added for him to wipe down we picked up a baby nappy bin they’re great tbey contain smells we put tg into small waste bin bags tied into the nappy bin which has a bin li we in it for easy dusposal — bed wise we use waterproof mattress protector and he actually lays on for co fort a slimline waterproof mattress so that can be wiped down with either a little disinfectant in water or diluted white vinegar for smells — a air fresher left on floor in vir we helps keep room fresh
We buy clothes a little bigger to help take off easier
mops with disposable wipes to throw away make cleaning easier/quicker or a bucket with mop with disinfectant or diluted white vinegar on standby to keep cleaning
it’s all about organising to make things easier and quicker
oh and some rubber gloves helps cleaning
of you have a bath free water with washing powder and disinfectant to soak maybe can help with initial rinsing of soiled clothes etc
1. Frequent changes. 2. Frequent intakes of fluids if they can be tolerated (some with CHF cannot). 3. Removal of all soiled materials to outside closed and line garbage bins. Soiled furniture and rugs removed. 4. Check urine frequently with dipstick (plastic catcher-hat in toilet, not from diapers which have product in them that will change readings) that you buy from pharmacist. Watch for positive nitrites, blood and leukocytes; call MD for same and take specimen to lab for ordered U/A, C&S. 5. D-Mannose works well for me. Acts like cranberry but with sugar and acids to keep bacteria from adhering to bladder wall. Some others here have had luck with it; some have not. 6. Is there fecal incontinence? If so, all is hopeless as e-coli will invade. 7. Lastly, hormone cream that is used on outer vulva and urethra. In the female there is but a short distance from entrance of urethra to the bladder and post menopause the tissues thin remarkably, leaving the poor urethra utterly unable to close off to bacteria.
This is a dilemma. And if it is ongoing after the above you are looking at discussion with doctor about prophylactic antibiotics. They used often to do this, but the fact that we overuse antibiotics so much that we have caused many bacteria to become resistant, has changed this by a lot. Doctors no longer often wish to give antibiotics prophylactically without being desperate. Good luck. Wish there was better answers on this one.
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APFM does not endorse or recommend any provider. It is your sole responsibility to select the appropriate care for yourself or your loved one. We work with both you and the Participating Communities in your search. We do not permit our Advisors to have an ownership interest in Participating Communities.
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We do not charge you any fee – we are paid by the Participating Communities. Some Participating Communities pay us a percentage of the first month's standard rate for the rent and care services you select. We invoice these fees after the senior moves in.
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APFM tours certain Participating Communities in Washington (typically more in metropolitan areas than in rural areas.) During the 12 month period prior to December 31, 2017, we toured 86.2% of Participating Communities with capacity for 20 or more residents.
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1. Good Hygiene Practices,
Clean the affected skin immediately after any accidents, and use a mild, unscented soap to prevent irritation. This helps to reduce bacterial build-up, which can lead to both odors and infections. It's crucial to dry the skin thoroughly afterward, as moisture encourages bacterial growth.
2. Regular Product Changes, Incontinence pads and other products should be changed frequently, ideally every few hours, to prevent the odor and moisture that can lead to skin infections and urinary tract infections (UTIs). It's also important to select the right size to avoid leaks.
3. **Odor-Reducing Products**: Many incontinence products include odor-blocking technology, which can help keep unpleasant smells under control. Products with moisture-wicking features can also prevent prolonged skin contact with urine or feces.
4. Hydration
Staying hydrated is key to reducing the concentration and odor of urine. Drinking sufficient water dilutes the urine, which can help reduce strong smells.
By combining these tips with the right care products, individuals can manage incontinence more effectively, minimizing both odor and the risk of infection.
My advice is padding up furniture and bedding with the suggestions in this link...
How to Handle Adult Incontinence Incidents https://www.agingcare.com/articles/handle-incontinence-incidents-148442.htm
Try adult diapers (incontinence briefs). Both Walmart and Walgreens carry their own brand, which is decent quality. Assurance and Certainty are the names.
I personally like the Tena Stretch tab briefs. Very absorbent and the stretch tabs allow you to get a good fit. They are a little bulky between the legs, though.
These must be changed frequently. At LEAST 3 times daily. Buy small trash bags and close them up and remove from the house immediately.
Cleaning! Lots of cleaning is how you mitigate smells.
The person's skin - private parts, must be cleaned regularly in between diaper changes. Use Adult size disposable wipes. My routine is to use a wash basin (basically, just a large plastic bowl) with warm soapy water for the first morning diaper change. I thoroughly and gently wash the groin, front and back. Pat dry, and apply a barrier cream to the buttocks to prevent or protect bedsores.
Keep everything clean! Wash your hands, take out the soiled diaper in a trash bag, protect the bed and any chairs with washable underpads, and /or disposable underpads. Soiled clothing will need to be washed, or at leased rinsed out or soaked immediately. I use about a tablespoon of Dawn dishsoap and 1/4 cup of distilled vinegar in the washer. Some items require more than one washing to get the smells out. If you can, hanging smelly laundry outside in the sun will help to eliminate odors.
BTW: I have a separate waste can in my back yard to keep the soiled diaper trash until trash pick up day. My large household garbage can is in the garage, and the soiled diaper waste will make it smell!
so he uses disposable pants
we have wipes and a plastic washing bowl with a flannel and a little disinfectant added for him to wipe down
we picked up a baby nappy bin
they’re great
tbey contain smells
we put tg into small waste bin bags tied
into the nappy bin which has a bin li we in it for easy dusposal
—
bed wise we use waterproof mattress protector
and he actually lays on for co fort a slimline waterproof mattress
so that can be wiped down with either a little disinfectant in water or diluted white vinegar for smells
—
a air fresher left on floor in vir we helps keep room fresh
We buy clothes a little bigger to help take off easier
mops with disposable wipes to throw away make cleaning easier/quicker or a bucket with mop with disinfectant or diluted white vinegar on standby to keep cleaning
it’s all about organising to make things easier and quicker
oh and some rubber gloves
helps cleaning
of you have a bath free water with washing powder and disinfectant to soak maybe can help with initial rinsing of soiled clothes etc
wishing you well
2. Frequent intakes of fluids if they can be tolerated (some with CHF cannot).
3. Removal of all soiled materials to outside closed and line garbage bins. Soiled furniture and rugs removed.
4. Check urine frequently with dipstick (plastic catcher-hat in toilet, not from diapers which have product in them that will change readings) that you buy from pharmacist. Watch for positive nitrites, blood and leukocytes; call MD for same and take specimen to lab for ordered U/A, C&S.
5. D-Mannose works well for me. Acts like cranberry but with sugar and acids to keep bacteria from adhering to bladder wall. Some others here have had luck with it; some have not.
6. Is there fecal incontinence? If so, all is hopeless as e-coli will invade.
7. Lastly, hormone cream that is used on outer vulva and urethra. In the female there is but a short distance from entrance of urethra to the bladder and post menopause the tissues thin remarkably, leaving the poor urethra utterly unable to close off to bacteria.
This is a dilemma. And if it is ongoing after the above you are looking at discussion with doctor about prophylactic antibiotics. They used often to do this, but the fact that we overuse antibiotics so much that we have caused many bacteria to become resistant, has changed this by a lot. Doctors no longer often wish to give antibiotics prophylactically without being desperate.
Good luck. Wish there was better answers on this one.