Chronic Wound Care
Chronic Wound Care – Help with Daily Care of Open Wounds
Right At Home Nassau Suffolk offers a number of services that can help you with chronic wound care. Wounds are not always caused by trauma or necessarily large, gaping areas.
What Causes the Need for Chronic Wound Care?
First, you need to understand the definition of chronic wounds. A chronic wound is basically a wound (some may call it a sore) that doesn’t heal as typically expected. One common symptom of chronic wounds is that the amount of time it takes for the wound to heal properly is longer than preferred.
Common Reasons for Chronic Wound Care
- Skin/Tissue Damage – The skin is open, creating a wound. Wound care would include preparation and taking care of the skin to promote healthy healing.
- Heal Time – Typical time to heal a wound is generally longer for those who need chronic wound care. Those who experience chronic wounds will often have compromised healing systems and health issues that attribute to the difficulty to heal in a typical amount of time.
What can cause chronic wounds?
These are some of the most common reasons why people suffer from chronic wound issues:
- Diabetes – Diabetics can often have difficulty healing.
- Auto Immune Diseases – Having an auto-immune disease already puts you at an increased risk for healing issues. It can also lessen the ability for your body to produce good bacteria needed in healing; while also decreasing the ability to fight off negative bacteria that can disrupt healing.
- Lack of Mobility – Those who cannot move about well or are bed ridden are highly susceptible to pressure wounds. These wounds occur because a person sits or lies in the same position for long periods of time and the continuous pressure causes a sore to occur where the continuous pressure is applied.
- Surgery or Trauma – Surgery presents an obvious wound where the skin is cut in order to perform the surgery. Trauma causes wounds by breaking open the skin due to a traumatic event (such as falling, being hit with an object, etc.). In either case there can become an issue with healing.
There are a number of causes of chronic wounds. There are also different types of chronic wounds. Be fully informed about chronic wound care.
Remember, it’s important that you speak with your physician about how to properly care for your particular wounds.
How Can Right At Home Help with Chronic Wound Care?
We offer a number of services that can help you with chronic wound care.
- Skilled Nursing Services – Our nurses can help with wound dressing, keeping the chronic wound clean & healthy, and promoting safe healing of various wound types. Skilled nursing services offers a quality option to heal at home under the assistance of a trained health professional caring for your wounds.
- In Home Caregiving – Our professionally trained in home caregivers can help you with everyday tasks that may be difficult because of open and healing wounds. They can also provide an extra set of eyes to keep watch over your wounds and alert you if they see anything you should be concerned with.
- Combining Services – Combining both our skilled nursing services and our caregiving or homemaking services can make life easier for anyone dealing with chronic wounds. Having regular visits from a medically trained & certified professional (nurse) will allow you to have professional treatment as instructed by your doctor while remaining at home. Instead of healing in an aftercare facility you can be in the comfort of your own home.
Right At Home Nassau Suffolk will work closely with you and your health team to ensure healthy healing when it comes to chronic wounds. Don’t let the need for chronic wound care affect your quality of life when we’re just a click away!
Keeping you happy & safe
Right At Home,
Gregg Balbera