Bedsores

This fact sheet gives advice and helpful tips on preventing skin breakdown in people who can't change positions by themselves and dealing with bedsores when they develop. It lists cause of skin breakdown, suggests skin care solutions and other ways of preventing pressure ulcers.

It can be hard to learn to manage your health when you have an SCI, especially if you can’t find simple and clear explanations of what you can do to look after yourself. This guide is trying to increase access to research and education by describing the experts’ recommendations in everyday language, and using pictures to explain important points of preventing bedsores and dealing with them.

This resource provides information on prevention, symptoms, risk factors and complications related to bedsores. Treating and coping with bedsores in a health care institution and at home are also addressed.

A good guide towards caring for adults who have pressure sores. This guide goes over the various stages, how to care for them and how to avoid worsening their condition. It also goes over what situations should a doctor be called in immediately.

A very comprehensive and in-depth guide from the NHS in UK that is easy to read. It goes over what pressure ulcers (bedsores are), what are the symptoms, causes, who are at risk and once they have developed, how to care for them and provide relief.