Dementia patients oral health care

There are a wide range of oral bacteria, Once systemic resistance drop massive bacteria growth and reproduction, it will not only cause bad breath and digestive function decreased, but also cause a lot of complications, such as mumps, otitis media, stomatitis, such as pneumonia. Therefore, we should attach importance to oral health. Alzheimer's patients because of poor self-care, to supervise people, or advanced dementia are not serious brushing, I do not know to brush their teeth, or paralyzed, bedridden not convenient brush, and so on, need to care for people, to give oral care. (1) the mild dementia have to remind and urge patients sooner or later brushing.
(2) of paralysis, the bedridden elderly dementia can assist its mouthwash, and specific methods are as follows: ① lateral patients, caregivers first lateral side. ② will dry towel Wai in the neck to prevent wetting bedding; disk or by placing a bowl of the patients mouth to the patient spat, mouthwash; allow patients to their own mouthwash, tooth-brushing.
(3) severe dementia elderly will not brush their teeth, wash mouth to help patients, as follows: ① with cold water or 1 percent salt water or brine cotton gauze, wrapped index finger scrub patients oral mucosa and the three of teeth (outside bite surface, inside). Their modus operandi is Shun Chi Feng from tooth to tooth surface roots rubbing, and then from Tongues to the base of the tongue. To prevent patients bitten fingers. Also available dutiful the scrub the mouth. ② the sober patients can allow water gargle with suction aspiration, then mouthwash in the Tuha side entrance angle basin. On thought to the patients, to prevent them will be popular aspiration of the cotton ball, causing suffocation. ③patients face. ④later flashlight internal check whether oral clean, then their lips coated in paraffin oil or glycerine. There are oral ulcers, can be coated one percent; patients with dentures, after meals or at bedtime remove dentures, using toothbrushes brushing, cold water and let cold, business and realized again for patients installing if temporarily do not have dentures can be soaked in clean water for daily * Change 1.