Bedsore Management

When we do some work for a long time or for the first time there is pressure on the skin of the area used for work, that pressure causes injury to skin and nearby tissue causing ulcers called pressure ulcers.

They are also known as Bedsores and decubitus ulcers. Bedsores always happen to the place where skin is over bone and the gap between them is very low. Such areas are like heels, hands and sometimes hips.

Some people have medical conditions that do not allow the ulcers to heal fastly so they have to spend more time with it. Bedsores can be small or large , some heals but some goes with only through treatment. There are bedsores which can never be treated properly.

Symptoms

There are some sign of bedsores or pressure ulcers, they are:

• There are changes in the color of skin as well as the texture of skin.
• There will be swelling in the skin making it look like boiling.
• The swelling in the skin contains pus, which flows if the boil is burst.
• The area of swelling in the skin feels warmer than the other area.
• The swelling will be tenderlike jelly.

Bed screws have many categories. These categories depend on the characteristics of the bedsore like depth of it, large of it. During some bedsore development there many be damage in the muscle or bone.