Use a small fan, spread your legs or whatever position works best to get to 'the spot', and blow it away! Put a sheet over you for modesty. Also everytime you wash or shower, blow dry the area several minutes. I think powders and diaper rash stuff just gets in the folds and causes more problems than not. Stay "dry"! When you start getting up, blow dry a.m. and p.m. I never liked baby powder, corn starch or anything on my son when he was a baby. Don't like the smell anyway. I think he only had diaper rash once or twice and they cleared within a day or two. Using a fan, or hair blow dryer set on cool, works wonders. take care,
Dana and ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lori Michaelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 3:30 PM Subject: [QUAD-L] My current wound battle, pressure mapping, etc > > > A rehab/vendor guy came & pressure mapped my as* today. Unsurprisingly, my > current seating system shows little to no pressure since we weren't > convinced that caused my wound. > > We think my wound began because of moisture & maybe then exacerbated by > underwear in the crease and SOME pressure on it when sitting. Other than > wearing pads or powder ... how do you women stay dry? This is a relatively > new problem for me --- wound from moisture so am looking for ideas. > > Turning 40 did it! LOL. Either way, I've been staying completely off of > it going on 5 months. Despite great nutrition, high protein drinks, proper > vitamins and staying off of it ... it's a bugger healing > COMPLETELY. There's only a pinhole left to it but that's been present for > a month. The area around it wants to stay red despite no pressure. Ugh! > > I tried out 2 popular cushions (Roho quad and ummm, pooh - Brain blurp!) > and the second one seems better for me pressure-wise, heigth and so on. > > However... if my seating isn't the problem according to the pressure > mapping device what's my strategy??? > > He left the one cushion here for me to try over the weekend. Second issue > is that I'm in the market for a new wheelchair, SO that has decision > making multiplied. Get a cushion or no? As Medicare will only pay for > one. We plan on moving so we think it best to wait till we move to move on > trying out new chairs so the vendor will be close by. > > Feels god to be up for a few hours after 4 days in bed though! > > Lori > http:\\www.michaelsons.org > >
