What is bedsore like

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I believe everyone should have heard of bedsore. What are the main reasons for it? In fact, bedsore is mainly caused by people who lie on the bed for a long time and have no way to move. Let's talk about what bedsore is.

What is bedsore like

First: bedsore refers to the short-term strong pressure or long-term low pressure leading to skin, subcutaneous tissue and bone eminence muscle ischemic necrosis and ulcer formation. Pressure sores often occur in the caudal sacrum, greater trochanter of femur, medial and lateral malleolus, spine and other parts. Bedsore can be seen at any age, but the most common in the elderly, especially in patients over 70 years old.

Second: because the elderly pain, dementia, etc., can not reflect the occurrence of bedsore in time, need medical staff to closely observe the pressure parts, in order to find out in time. Especially when bedsore causes systemic infection, the early performance is not typical. If fever, ESR, hypothermia, shivering, shivering, sweating and mental changes occur, we should be alert to the possibility of bedsore complicated with infection.

Third: the elderly due to the main organ parenchymal cell atrophy and reduction in the number, making the organ reserve energy reduced, the ability to adapt to reduce the body immunity, prone to damage local and surrounding infection, serious cases can cause sepsis. The elderly are mostly mixed bedsore, and the factors affecting the healing of bedsore are complex, such as old age and poor nutritional status.

matters needing attention

Therefore, for those patients who lie in bed for a long time, they can't move. Their families must pay attention to turn over the patients and scrub their bodies on time, so as to effectively prevent the occurrence of bedsore and bring greater pain to the patients.