Make sure that you have all the necessary items at hand before you start. Protect the bed with a special hygienic underpad before attempting to carry out the bed bath.

Taking care over your loved one in need of long-term treatment only on your shoulders, you need to take under account that this may expose you to many different emotions.

When your loved one – your child, your parent or other relative – becomes ill, there is a lot of change involved in the lives of all people engaged in looking after that person.

Looking after an ill person, especially a bedridden one, you need to involve a lot of energy into it. 

If possible, the person under your care should have a separate room with easy toilet access, or a commode in the room.

Skin redness, which doesn’t disappear after relieving pressure, blisters developing in the area under pressure, damaged epidermis – these symptoms should alert the carer.