Looking for something to protect the floor under a hospital bed.
For those who have had an in home hospital bed, what did you put on the floor under the bed? Wanting to safeguard against fluids, etc getting into the carpet. Thanks!
We bought a cheap area rug at Home Depot for something like $30 to put under mom’s hospital bed. It’s not slippery like a shower curtain, but still a potential trip hazard.
My late husband was in a hospital bed in our carpeted living room for the last 22 months of his life and under hospice care. I never had any issues with any "fluids" getting on the carpet, and never even thought about that. Now he had a permanent catheter at that time, and I had a aide come every morning to put him on the bedside commode(still in the living room)to poop, and there was only one time that his catheter bag was leaking and I had to clean that up, but after that I just kept a closer eye on his catheter bags. And the hospice aides would give him a bed bath twice a week, but no water ever got on the floor/carpet. I'm not sure what kind of fluids(other than pee)you're concerned about, but if you have the chux pads(from Amazon or walmart.com)under your loved one then they should soak up any fluids before anything reaches the floor. And the nice thing about a hospital mattress is that you can wipe it down thoroughly every time you change the sheets.
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Now he had a permanent catheter at that time, and I had a aide come every morning to put him on the bedside commode(still in the living room)to poop, and there was only one time that his catheter bag was leaking and I had to clean that up, but after that I just kept a closer eye on his catheter bags.
And the hospice aides would give him a bed bath twice a week, but no water ever got on the floor/carpet.
I'm not sure what kind of fluids(other than pee)you're concerned about, but if you have the chux pads(from Amazon or walmart.com)under your loved one then they should soak up any fluids before anything reaches the floor.
And the nice thing about a hospital mattress is that you can wipe it down thoroughly every time you change the sheets.
Medline Extrasorbs or Ultrasorbs for ultimate protection AND you can dispose of them.