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When my Moms bandage kept coming off, my daughter, wound care RN, took a sock with a long stretchy top and cut the top off. She then put it on Moms leg covering the bandage. So it wouldn't get wet, she wrapped Glad Press and seal around the bandage covering the skin on top and bottom. Gives a great seal and comes off easily.
From my experience in home care LE ulcers need all factors above to heal- proper hydration, nutrition and water pills help. It’s hard for the ace wraps to stay intact on lower legs. Our orders were these dressings be changed daily & the family were taught how to do the woundcare, which is usually a vasoline dressing as vasoline won’t stick to the wound when changing it, Honey is another alternative or calcium alginate silver (silver in alginate is antimicrobial).
If your mother’s leg ulcers are from lymphedema, try to seek out a lymphedema clinic in your area. They have alternating pressure devices the staff use to try to get the lymphedema reabsorbed.
Lymphedema treatment is management of the symptoms & generally is persistent.
Do the best you can to redress the area when she pulls the dressings off. Those ulcers must be kept clean and dressed to avoid infection.
It takes a lot of time and treatment to heal those leg ulcers. Observe for s/s infection - ask her provider what you should be reporting for infection s/s.
Lastly have her PCP write orders to be followed at a woundcare
center usually once a week.
The staff will measure the wound weekly which will help assess for improvement.
In particular, how to manage and change the dressing depends a lot on the type of wound, its location, and what dressing exactly is being used. Some of them you *don't* take off for quite a while and there are good reasons for it.
Healing time will depend on so many factors that it's impossible to say - again, your wound care nurse will be your best source of advice. Who is currently leading this treatment (I mean, what sort of practitioner)?
Venous status ulcers take weeks to heal. Sometimes the patient may need an ultrasound of the blood vessels in the person’s leg to check for blockages in blood flow and maybe a stent placement or angioplasty to restore blood flow as the area needs good blood circulation to heal. So many factors.
My understanding is that plasters should be changed at least daily, more often if the wound is weeping because you don't want to wound to remain "wet" in the weeping fluids (moist is very good, wet is not so good). I suggest checking with your mother's doctor or a nurse practitioner about her wound care. I have found nurse practitioners often have better hands on care advice while still being aware of medicines or bandage types that aid healing. I also placed a "pad" made from a folded sheet under the wound and replaced that each time the bandage came off.