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[LL2022]

How do you shower during lengthning with external fixators?

Do you use plastic bags such as, although something like this would probably be troublesome to get on with those bulky fixators on your legs:


Or are you supposed to not shower at all to prevent any risk of infection from moisture?

[Dexter5729]

How do you shower during lengthning with external fixators?

Do you use plastic bags such as, although something like this would probably be troublesome to get on with those bulky fixators on your legs:


Or are you supposed to not shower at all to prevent any risk of infection from moisture?

I lay on the goddamn floor or sit on o chair while putting my legs on the other chair. Did this in almost 8 month, i just fk hated this and was mad all the time

[LL2022]

What the hell, that sounds like torture damn...

I'm searching for a water proof protective cover with a big opening diameter and strong enough seal that can be used for external fixators, hoping to find one so we can take proper showers while lenghtning.

[KiloKAHN]

You shower normally, getting the frames and pin sites wet, then dry off and change your dressings with sterile gauze afterward.  You don't need a cover for the frame as it's only stagnant water that's an issue.

[Medium Drink Of Water]

Or are you supposed to not shower at all to prevent any risk of infection from moisture?

This is my position.  Zero showers, zero infections was my track record.

[LLprime3]

The pin sites are open wounds. I wouldn't want chemicals of the soap or shampoo to enter my blood stream freely. No one worried about that?

[Medium Drink Of Water]

Don't worry about that.  Washing an open wound is different from injecting soap.

[zaozari]

This is my position.  Zero showers, zero infections was my track record.

May I ask if for genital area you found a way of washing with running water ( without wetting the pin sites) or had to use any dried, pharmaceutical cleaning product instead?

[Medium Drink Of Water]

No.

[zaozari]

So you could use normal running water ?

[Medium Drink Of Water]

No.  Don't wash yourself during LL.

[zaozari]

Thanks. But not doing so, how often did the nurse change your pin bandages and put desinfectant? Twice a week?
 I'm asking because I may be alone with no nurse and will have to learn to change bandages and clean pin sites myself.

[Medium Drink Of Water]

They didn't bandage the pinsites at Guang Ji Hospital.  We were supposed clean the pinsites ourselves daily, but many of us came to the conclusion that leaving them alone and protected by scabs was better.

[zaozari]

They didn't bandage the pinsites at Guang Ji Hospital.  We were supposed clean the pinsites ourselves daily, but many of us came to the conclusion that leaving them alone and protected by scabs was better.

Thanks. It has some logic, if natural scabs form in every pin incision, maybe it's the most protective (and easiest) solution.