Anonymous

3 years

Bedsore on buttock with broken skin and smelly

My patient at homecare developed bedsore after went home for 2 weeks. Ulcer with bad smell. Should she need antibiotic? Pls advise. Tqvm

Hi thank you for your question.

We understand that you are worried about if you should treat the bedsore ulcer with an antibiotic or not. In order to understand if the way you have been treating it correctly, we need more information about your the bedsore that one of the patients at the homecare have been experiencing. We cannot give any further comments as the informations that we received from you is very limited.

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