Instructions for bathing
• Provide privacy during bathing.
• Dry the skin after bath gently with a soft towel.
• Oil the skin with cream, body oil, lanolin or vegetable oil.
• Use plastic sheets under the bed sheets to keep the bed dry when one
cannot control urine or faeces.
• Massage the back and hips, elbows, ankles with petroleum jelly.
• If there is leakage of urine or stool, protect skin with petroleum jelly
applied around private parts, back, hips, ankles and elbows.
• Support the sick person over the container when passing urine or
stool, so as to avoid wetting the bed and injury.
To prevent pain, stiff ness and contractures in muscles
and joints