Education about Oral and Eye care

ORAL CARE :-

Well, I'm telling you something about Oral care is the cleanliness of the teeth including artificial denture, gum , oral mucosa and tongue. Well, we all do oral care but should do properly to keep our teeth strong. Usually we give oral care twice a day in the morning and at the night after meal but in case of unconcious patient , high fever patient and oral infected patient we give oral care frequently. We should give proper oral care to the unconcious patient. If the patient is unconcious it is our duty to give education and method to the family members.l

Purpose of the Oral care:
The main purpose of the oral care is to clean the mouth. To get refresh the patient oral care is necessary. To stimulate appetite oral care is also needed. The patient also can get relieve from bad order. Oral care also prevent and treat oral infection.


Articles required for oral care of unconcious Patient:

• Small bowl with boiled water.





• Artery forcep
  





• Desecting forcep Kidney tray
  





• Cotton swabs and guaze piece
  





• Face towel
  





• Rubber Sheet





• Boroglycerine





• Tongue depressor





• Sodium Bicarbonate powder

Now, the procedure of the oral care are describing below:

• We have to bring all the articles to the bed side.





• Place the patient in lateral position.





• Hold the swab socked in sodium bicarbonate solution with artery forcep and squeezed it with the help of desecting forcep.





• Throughly clean the patient's teeth, oral mucosa , tongue and chewing surface.





• For cleaning th tongue and chewing surface of the teeth use tongue depressor to open the mouth.





• We should never use finger to open the mouth as uncouncious patient may bite the finger.
  





• We should use many swabs as needed to clean the mouth throughly.





• We should dry the patient mouth with towel.





• Lubricate the patient's lips with boroglycerine.





• We should record the procedure and condition of the oral cavity.

EYE CARE :-

We know that eye care means to take care and clean eye by using the proper way. To make our eye healthy we should have proper education about the eye care. Then only we can take care our eyes by ourselves and others too. For the care of our eyes we need the following articles required. They are given below:

• Boiled water in small bowl





• Sterik Cotton





• Kidney Tray





• Eye drop (if prescribed by the doctor)





• Gauze Piece

Now about the procedure of the eye care:

STEPS:

• At first we have to explain the procedure to hte patient.





• Assist the patient to lie on his back with his head hyper extended.





• Wash your hand with soap and water.





• Clean the eye lid and lasher by wiping from the inner canthus to outer canthus with sterile cotton socked in boiled water or normal saline.





• Draw the required amount o medicine in dropper. Don't touch the tip of the dropper.





• tell the patient to look up to the ceiling and give him piece o guaze to wipe as needed.l





• Place yor inger at the check bone below the ecy using a cotton, sponnge.





• se the side approach, instill the required amount o fmedifcine on to the outer third o the lower conjucntival sac.





• Apply the eye pad as needed.





• Help the patient to the comfortable position.





• We have to wash our hand.





• At last record the drugs instilled lin eye both left and right and also time.