More and more clinicians and nursing departments all over the world are shifting from basin baths to Bath Wipes as a complete bathing system for patients and immobile invalids. These bath wipes cleanse and moisture the skin while removing bacteria and control body odour in one step. Due to its high moisture content, the Bath Wipes do not attach itself to dry skin. Bath wipes also play a significant role in reducing cross-contamination as compared to the traditional basin bathing. The large acceptance of Bath Wipes today in hospital environments is because this method of rinse-free bathing for patients improves the nursing work flows in many units of hospitals making it time and labour efficient. The Bath Wipes are seen to improve patient comfort and independence.
What makes Easy Bath Wipes with impregnated HCG different?
Bath or patient wipes are high quality spun lace cloth that are non-woven, low linting fabric impregnated with chlorhexidine gluconate solution. Impregnating the cloth with HCG is an innovative technology where, as the name suggests, the incipient wetness impregnation method refers to impregnation using a solution with a volume equal to the pore volume of the porous material. The main advantage of the impregnation method is that it is easy to control the amount of the chlorhexidine gluconate solution that is loaded in the carrier.
In the case of non-woven impregnated wipes adapted for human skin surfaces, the impregnant drug generally is aqueous based. Such wipes are marketed ready for use either in individual packet form or in bulk form in suitable dispensers from which individual wipes can be withdrawn as needed. Whatever the form of packaging, the wipes are stored for substantial periods of time prior to use and therefore need to be protected against microbial contamination and deterioration to which they are readily susceptible. One common method to achieve this is to incorporate a suitable chemical preservative system in the liquid composition employed to impregnate the nonwoven wipe.
Preservative systems which have been employed in a number of aqueous impregnating compositions for nonwoven wipes have included ethyl alcohol which is well known for its antiseptic effect. One such preservative system which has provided excellent results against hospital acquired infections (HAIs) is using chlorhexidine gluconate.
Presently there is a trend to formulate impregnating compositions for nonwoven wipes which avoids the use of ethyl alcohol because manufacturers of wet/moist wipes perceive that many consumers would prefer alcohol-free wipes, particularly those which are primarily intended for use in personal hygiene and patient care.
Ref: Non-woven wipe impregnating composition US5141803A (United States)
