Did you know that over 400 million people worldwide live with incontinence. If it were a country, it would be the third largest country in the world. Although such a large number of people are living with it, it is rarely openly spoken about.
Incontinence is nothing to be ashamed of and affects over 20% of people at some point in their lives. But you can use products to help manage incontinence and keep the area clean, especially if you are experiencing faecal incontinence.
There are several types of incontinence products such as bed pads for chairs and beds, pull ups for active people and all in ones for those who are less mobile. Then precentative skin cleanser and barrier creams.
This is important for anyone with thinning skin, elderly and incontinent becuase it burns and breaks down the skin. Once this happens you’re at high risk of infection through pressure ulcers and lesions, thus the right products are essential.
NHS Urinary Incontinence Information
Another condition that is rarely talked about is Stoma care. Yet there is an estimated 13.5 million people worldwide living with a stoma. One of the most important things is to keep around your stoma site clean, especially if you are out and about.
NHS Living with Colostomy Information
How can Nilaqua® Skin Cleanser help you?
Nilaqua Skin Cleanser is used within hospitals and can be used with or without water for all over the body and incontinent episodes. Just foam onto skin, let it soak in and wipe off. Or can be used with warm water depending upon soiling. Not only it is a wonderful cleanser, but kind unlike pressurised containers requiring emollients. Nilaqua is pH balanced to be mild and non-irritating to the skin, for long term use. Better yet as a dual purpose cleanser you are purchasing less product. It is more cost effective and available in 3 sizes, so you can pop one in your car or handbag for quick/discreet clean ups.
For Stoma care we recommend our Nilaqua Antimicrobial Body Wash which kills germs and effectively cleans without any water or rinsing, yet is paraben free, mild and non-irritating to the skin. Dispensed via a foam it last considerably longer than soaps and gels, so is much more cost effective. As a quatz based formula, our active ingredients are much kinder to the skin over chlorhexidine based skin cleanser. Pair it with our soft dry wipes to avoid any tissue getting stuck to the stoma.
Here are testimonials from the Community Lives Consortium
Cwmgelli House; We found it absolutely brilliant. It’s better on dry skin than Senset. We love it because the users can actually use it in the shower too as well as for an incontinence episode.
Drummau Road House; Loved the smell, it really freshened up our service user. We don’t have anyone that is incontinent at the moment but we will definitely use it on them when we do.
Tawe Street House; Our service users have down syndrome and dementia and it’s getting harder to wash them so this made it really easy for us (the carers) and it wasn’t such an ordeal for the user.
Roger Street House; It’s nice and makes the skin soft after you use it. We will place an order for this instead of Senset next time. Can we try your towel off shampoo too please?
NHS – Royal Hampshire Clinic: We carried out a cost comparison on the product used for the duration of this trial and found that ICU, in comparison to the usual foam cleanser, used 50% of the volume product.
Our Foaming Skin Cleanser not only works for incontinence but also periods and odours. So why not try it today and start living life to it’s fullest.
