One of my clients is incontinent. She wears a disposable incontinence diaper with a pad inside, which gets changed in the morning when she wakes up, early afternoon after nap, and at night when she goes to bed.
Recently it has not been providing enough of a barrier, and her pants and wheelchair have been wet when we go to transfer her. We thought it was due to leakage, but tried changing the diaper to a smaller size has not helped at all. Our only idea now is to use TWO disposable liners, but just imagining it seems pretty awkward and bulky, for them to overlap in the middle. Has anyone encountered this or a similar situation, or can anyone offer some advice? Thanks 😊
And on another point a brief should be checked and probably changed every 2 hours not just 3 times a day.
This is not just for preventing leaks but it is a way to clean and check the skin, gets the person to change positions so they are not sitting in the same spot, the same way for hours at a time.
And I hope BOTH the pad and the incontinence brief is being changed not just the pad. If not the brief can absorb a bit of fluid and not look or feel wet at the time but over the course of the day that brief will not be able to absorb any excess.
Client lives with a caregiver who can't manage changes and transfers on their own (or god forbid even lives on their own) so home care is assigned to stop by to assist. This may be as little as twice or three times a day. The time allotted may be as little as 15 minutes, although morning and evening are more apt to be 30 minutes. Because caregivers are dashing between clients and life happens they are often late and/or pressed for time. But it's so much better to allow people to age in place, right?
How did she find you or you find her?
Is your client able to transfer to a commode?
You do not want the skin to break down. If she gets bed sores on her bottom side, it is a bit of a bugger to heal it. Only takes a few days to get a pressure sore, and a whole lot longer to get rid of it.
Use Calmoseptin cream as well. A & D Ointment.
The abri forms are tabs, not pull ups. Not sure which ones you are using, but the tabs might give you a better fit to help keep the wet from leaking out.
Sorry this isn't much help, but we are having the same problem. I don't want to wake her in the middle of the night either.