Washing before op!!!!!

Hi Lynn,

I don't know if it is the same as the UK but in France we use Betadine for washing before an operation.

I was given a bottle of dark red liquid to use for 3 days prior to the surgery. Ian in the USA and forget the name

The hospital should provide this for you. My first hip was a wash hospital gave me to do night before and morning of. My second hip was different they gave me wipes to use. Like one wipe for legs, one for arms, I've for torso, and so on. When I got to hospital they wiped me down again. I had to do this night before and day of. The wash is Hibicleans. Hope all goes well! 🤗🤗 LD

At our hospital in ottawa, they use sponges infused with 4%chlorhexidine gluconate. We are instructed to shower and wash with it the night before and again the day of surgery.

Hope this helps.

Oh - they sold it in the hospital gift shop!

L

I was given phisohex anti bacterial wash to wash with 5 days prior to the operation.

I read a study that indicated these washes don't reduce infection rates, but used it anyway.

Yes hepi cleanse from walgreens i use it still post op daily

Need to check spelling for u

Hibicleanse

Here in New England I was given two sponges and told to shower with them both the night before and the morning of.   I was also instructed to have freshly laundered sheets and pajamas

I used Hydrex surgical scrub also known as Chlorhexidine gluconate 4% skin cleanser.

In the UK the hospital will supply this along with the stuff to put up your nose.

They should give you a bottle at the hispital, it is a specialised foam wash very easy to use. 

Hi Lynn.  Here in Pennsylvania my doctor supplied chlorhexibine wipes to be used two days and the night before surgery along with a Hibiclens packet to wash the site on the morning of surgery.

For both my THR's my hospital gave me HIBICLENS® I washed with it for 2 days prior to surgery.     8oz and 4oz bottles.Both a skin cleanser and antiseptic, HIBICLENS® kills germs on contact and can continue working for up to 24 hours!

You can find it at major retailers and most drug stores. Hope this helps

 

Yes it had beta dine in it most surgeons recommend it now. . 

Great tip.

Here in Australia you are given the special sponges night before and morning of surgery, by the hospital at the pre-admission and education clinic.

They also take you though all the precautions of clean linen on your bed, and clean nightie and all clothes in the run up to your surgery, so you are not exposing yourself to anything.

In the surgery, but you may not be aware of this, you are bathed in betadine, they don't spare slopping it on in spades, from the waist down to your knees, front and back.

That where the wet ones or baby wipes come in useful after surgery to try and get all the sticky betadine off, especially for me as it irritates my skin, nurses and husband were trying to clean me up as I woke up on the ward, after both surgeries, kind of nice to wake up to someone washing you, and at the same time talking to you to explain what was going on.

I had my hip op almost a year ago and was never told to use a special wash before surgery, just shower ( i am in the UK). They used an iodine based wash around my hip area nad leg once asleep.