Diapers At hospital

My question is. If in your medical chart it is labeled IC incontinent, and you have to stay at the hospital and they see that in your chart will they automatically diaper you. I’d love to hear from a real nurse or dr on this subject

Yes, if you are wearing a diaper when you are admitted they will keep you in diapers . But hospital diapers are thin. They, the nurses don't clean you very well. They don't give you enough time to clean yourself. I speak as someone who went into the hospital with a stroke and was incontinent when I was admitted.

If they put in an I.V. you will piss yourself constantly. If so, ask for a catheter & you will sleep better, rather than being woken up every five mins to be changed all night long. If you go home with a catheter in, You will have to learn all new, how to live with it.

When in hospital, I bring in my supply of nappies and usually the nurses change me quite adequately as I do go to a private than a public hospital. It is that I don't often change my plastic panties as I use the same if they are relatively clean (once every two days) and hubby takes them home for a wash.

The reality of having bowel issues in hospital is not fun. I have actual, recent experience.

I was recently admitted for a bad cough and other things. My poo was very very soft, not quite liquid, but certainly not solid or 'formed' either. Anyway, every time I had a coughing fit I would expel loose poo and this happened maybe every hour. There was no time after the start of a fit and poo coming out to get to a toilet or commode before there was poo everywhere.

The nurses tried a diaper but it just made the mess harder to clean up, because the poo spread around inside the diaper. So, they just put me on a highly absorbent pad.

Diapers can be fun, in theory, but are really not so in practice. Also, completely loosing bowel control is fun, if it's done for fun and a short time, but if it goes on for hours and hours it becomes tiring. It makes for a sleepless night. Not to mention the nurse angels cleaning up a bed full of loose poo, again and again.

Last time I wore diapers /nappies in a hospital, other than after my birth in 1980 was in 1983/84 when I was visiting texas with my parents and I had been rushed into Houston's children's hospital because of unconsciousness caused by severe dehydration.

I had a stomach bug which meant i couldn't keep anything down so I fainted when at a day-cresh/daycare group for children at the hotel I was staying at.

All I can remember was waking up with a drip in my arm and wearing a thick pampers diaper, presumably an ultra or something similar to that, I spent a week or so in hospital until I was finally released.

See my previous replies on this subject if you have not done so already.

In my experience as incontinent person if I have emergency room visit , if they haven’t seen the chart they find the diaper when undressing me ( done politely for non trauma , trauma means they are are absolutely shearing my clothes off ) they will not mess with your diaper , until you have been evaluated and treatment started , then someone will be around to change you, when I am admitted and get to a floor after you meet and greet the nurse , unless you are bone dry and unsoiled they will change you immediately and get you on there change schedule, although on my last health jail visit the nurse told me if you think you wet or messed ring the bell , the hospital has crap diapers and barely handle a single use without requiring the linens be changed , and they really don’t want you wet or messy until someone diaper Checks . You will never get to a floor without the nurses knowing you’re diapered , that is part of the medical report that happens well before you are transferred . Me personally when you inpatient I end up with a rainbow wrist due to drug allergies ,food allergies ,fall risk ( that’s kinda a joke I can’t get out of bed and the rooms are so small my wheelchair is left in the hall way , so even if I could get out of bed the only place I am going is the floor , to await some adults to pick Me up) although I have heard they are starting to switch from bands to colored socks .