My mum has incontinence pads, after having sore ladies parts a few times,I rang the continence team for advice,we then had a visit,the lady was of little help but changed my mums prescription even though it had be renewed 2 months before and signed off for the year.
She said the volume of the pads was too much for my mums liquid intake and so gave her the slip in pads and tried to give her 3 pads a day instead of 4,I said we will need 4 pads as my mum has 4 care visits and so she gave me 4,after a trial we found the night one was very wet so they have now given her 1 of the old type Abri Sans with sticky fasteners and 3 of the slip ins.
I have noticed that the carers often fail to have enough pad showing at the vagina when it has been positioned so she can end up peeing all over the place in bed,one of the her very good carers has mentioned this to me tonight saying my mum always has a poo in at the pad every visit and so the pad can't be pulled any futher forward.
I wish I hadn't rang the continence service in the first place now,believe it was a cost cutting exercise and how is it going to benefit the bed bound person now peeing all over the place and more at liberty to fiddle down below as they haven't got a fitted pad,has anyone ever managed to get a change of prescription with these people to suit the user?I have just researched and there is a pad for my mothers waist size which holds the same volume as the pads that don't fit properly it's 1 down in the range from my mums night pad,but no doubt more expensive than the slip in pads that she has been given
She said the volume of the pads was too much for my mums liquid intake and so gave her the slip in pads and tried to give her 3 pads a day instead of 4,I said we will need 4 pads as my mum has 4 care visits and so she gave me 4,after a trial we found the night one was very wet so they have now given her 1 of the old type Abri Sans with sticky fasteners and 3 of the slip ins.
I have noticed that the carers often fail to have enough pad showing at the vagina when it has been positioned so she can end up peeing all over the place in bed,one of the her very good carers has mentioned this to me tonight saying my mum always has a poo in at the pad every visit and so the pad can't be pulled any futher forward.
I wish I hadn't rang the continence service in the first place now,believe it was a cost cutting exercise and how is it going to benefit the bed bound person now peeing all over the place and more at liberty to fiddle down below as they haven't got a fitted pad,has anyone ever managed to get a change of prescription with these people to suit the user?I have just researched and there is a pad for my mothers waist size which holds the same volume as the pads that don't fit properly it's 1 down in the range from my mums night pad,but no doubt more expensive than the slip in pads that she has been given
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