My 90 year old father has urinary incontinence at night. Leakage isn't bad,,,the problem is that he feels the wetness next to his skin & it wakes him up - which means he's not ever getting a decent night's sleep. We've tried every store brand we can find and I've done internet searches & ordered a variety of brands - nothing has worked well yet. He prefers pull ups to tabs,,,but will wear tabs if it will get the job done.
So....can anybody recommend a nighttime diaper that: 1) absorbs well and 2) feels dry next to the skin so my Pop can get a decent night's sleep?
The problem is his prostate. The pills he takes nightly do help quite a bit, but we're not going to be able to reduce that back to a place where incontinence is going to go away.
he wasnt going anywhere , there was nothing to dress up for .
If this is how "masonry customer" dealt with her husband - I shudder to think what else the poor man went through.
Medicare covered the condom catheters at 100%. After many years, Dad developed too much irritation from wearing the condom catheter (perhaps due to the latex or silicone--not sure which he was wearing back then). But thankfully by then the Men's Liberty external catheter was on the market (this is a completely different style that wraps around only the tip of the male body part). With a letter of medical necessity from Dad's doctor, Medicare also has paid for this overnight catheter at 100%.
I can't imagine leaving someone overnight with just a brief and/or pads. For my dad it would be too much urine and his skin is way too sensitive. And if he had cut back on his fluids to avoid urinating as much, he might have had more bladder problems than he's had (Dad rarely gets bladder infections--maybe once a year at most).
At the same time, if one is a daughter taking care of a dad by herself, without a mom or a brother to put on and to take off the catheter, it's a pickle. We've been fortunate that Mom has been willing to put on/take off the catheter for those times when we don't have an agency caregiver available, which is most of the time. (I have been the primary caregiver for my dad for the past few years, but my mom continues to take the catheter off in the morning and put it on at night, and she is the one who wipes after a bowel movement, since I would not be comfortable with doing that for a male family member. Agency caregivers come in to give Dad a shower three times a week, etc.)
If bowels are involved, then the paper pants would definitely be in order. I hope this helps, and good luck to both of you.
You can also set up a recurring order on their website, so your order is delivered automatically to your home (monthly, every 2 months, every 2 weeks, etc).
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I've ordered samples of most of the products mentioned here. I'll let you know if anything works out perfectly!
I agree that an INTERNAL catheter should always be avoided if possible, due to the risks, but the external catheters have sure made a world of difference for my dad's overnight comfort.
Men's Liberty is covered under Medicare at 100% with a doctor's letter of medical necessity. Condom caths are also covered under Medicare...I think... but I'm not up to date on how that currently works cause my dad has been wearing Men's Liberty for the last few years. He's 91 and he wears an external catheter so that he does not have to get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom.