![]() When Spring leaves,the annual Summer is coming. Summer is the most difficult daysfor prosthetic patients, because the Summer weather is too hot, the stump presents with a variety of problems due to hot weather. In Summer, residual limb is prone to sweating which fills prosthetic socket with water vapor, prosthesis permeability is not good, the sweat are evaporated to the outside body, residual limb will haveitching, swelling.Especially heat induces a variety of complications, it is simply a torture for patients with prosthesis. ![]() In Summer residual limb sweating causes a variety of complications, we specificallyinquired the professionals from rehabilitation hospital, rehabilitation centers from MEDI-REHATEK.They give some suggestions and methods as follows: 1, When you are convenient at work, you can remove the prosthesis to haveventilation, and try to take off the prosthesis at home. Don’t try to go out and stay indoors. 2, Have daily cleaning the stump and prosthetic socket with a light saline and pay attention to keep dry. ![]() 3, You can cool or disinfect the stump by regular methods which result in the little possibility of infection. You have regular cleaning of the parts of the amputation sweating, preferably with alcohol disinfection! Or the local part of stump is partially coated with alcohol and a towel with alcohol, which will have a good cooling effect. 4, Patient can take vitamin C, if itching is powerful you can use calamine lotion!Please wash the residual limb socks more than usual. That is all solutions for the sweating problems of residual limb in Summer,we will let you know first if have another good way to solve. We also hope that MEDI-REHATEK can develop some sweat deodorant and economic residual socks to solve the majority of prosthetic patients with big trouble. Relative blog: The application environment of foot prosthesis
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