JP2005144130A - Excretion aiding tool - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an excretion aiding tool capable of surely holding a feces excreted by a person receiving care wearing a diaper in the diaper, and simultaneously preventing the feces from adhering to the skin and leaking from the diaper, greatly reducing the burden of a care giver. <P>SOLUTION: The excretion aiding tool can form a space for excretion between the diaper and a body by expansion by an air pressure or others. Preferably, in the excretion aiding tool, the above space for excretion is generated by the expansion of the excretion aiding tool. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an excretion aid. More specifically, when a diaper wearer who needs excretion care at a hospital, nursing home, etc. (hereinafter referred to as a care recipient) wears it between the diaper and the body, An excretion aid that prevents the spread or leakage of stool inside the diaper, reduces the burden of changing the diaper of the caregiver, and reduces the dirt and roughness of the skin caused by the excrement of the care recipient About.

  Bedridden care recipients often suffer from constipation and use laxatives to ease excretion. As a result, the excreted stool tends to be loose or mud, and the excrement spreads more than necessary inside the diaper, which may cause dirt and rough skin on the entire diaper. Leakage may occur.

  Against this background, various improvements related to diapers have been proposed. For example, as a means for preventing the spread and leakage of stool, a diaper gathers a stopper with an air tube inserted therein to maintain the space between the diaper and the body (Patent Document 1), separating stool The thing (patent document 2) equipped with the skin contact sheet (skin adhesive sheet) which can be mentioned is mentioned. Moreover, what provided the space which accommodates a stool in the inside which provided one or more through-holes in the surface as an article | item with which a diaper is mounted | worn as another member is mentioned (patent document 3).

There has also been proposed a nursing care airbag system that facilitates care work by forming a space under the buttocks by laying an airbag under the upper body of a bedridden person and lifting the waist by air pressure. (Patent Document 4).
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-220193 JP 2002-143217 A JP 2001-269362 A Registered Utility Model No. 3075638

  However, the gathering-only device of Patent Document 1 can be expected to prevent side leakage, but cannot be expected to be effective enough to prevent the spread of stool inside the diaper. Moreover, in patent document 2, although the fecal adhesion to skin can be suppressed, prevention of a side leak is not enough. Moreover, in patent document 3, although it is excellent in the storage capacity of the stool, there is a possibility that the excreted stool may not be reliably stored in the article. On the other hand, the airbag as disclosed in Patent Document 4 facilitates care work, but is not essentially a device for preventing the spread of stool inside the diaper and the leakage of stool from the diaper.

  Therefore, the present invention can reliably store the feces excreted by the care recipient in the diaper, prevent the feces from adhering to the skin or leaking from the diaper, and greatly reduce the burden on the caregiver. It is an issue to provide.

  The present invention relates to an excretion assisting tool capable of forming an excretion space between a diaper and a body. The excretion assisting tool of the present invention is mounted between a diaper and a body, and can be formed by, for example, air pressure to form an excretion space between the diaper and the body. It is possible to store the feces excreted by the care recipient in this excretion space.

  Further, the present invention provides the excretion assisting device of the present invention, which is worn between a body of a care recipient who wears a diaper and a diaper, and excreted by forming a space for excretion between the diaper and the body. It relates to care methods.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the excretion assistance tool which can accommodate the stool excreted by the care recipient in the diaper, can prevent the stool from adhering to the skin and leak from the diaper, and can greatly reduce the burden on the caregiver. Is provided. Moreover, such an effect can be obtained with a simple configuration and method of use.

  The excretion assisting tool of the present invention is preferably one that can form an excretion space by expansion. The excretion assisting device of the present invention needs to have a strength that does not rupture even when body pressure is applied in a state where an excretion space is formed, and must be able to prevent air leakage when inflated by air. Therefore, polyolefins such as polyethylene and polypropylene, polyesters such as polyethylene terephthalate, fluorine resins such as polytetrafluoroethylene, polyvinyl alcohol, polyamide, synthetic rubber, polyvinyl acetate, polyurethane, acrylic resin, or a single or plural synthetic resin, Furthermore, what consists of a film of these synthetic resins is preferable. The film preferably has a thickness of 1 to 500 μm.

  The excretion assisting device of the present invention preferably forms an excretion space by inflation due to air pressure, and therefore includes an opening for filling air and a check valve for preventing air leakage from the opening. It is preferable to have. The check valve is preferably a film in order to improve the feeling of wearing, and can be attached to any position of the excretion aid.

  The excretion assisting device of the present invention has a function as a shielding means for preventing the spread of feces by forming an excretion space, preferably around the anus of the wearer. The diffusion region of soft stool can be suppressed, and at the same time, stool leakage from the diaper side can be prevented. Further, in order to reliably suppress the spread, in the excretion space formed by the excretion aid of the present invention, a net-like or fibrous sheet rich in water absorption, or pulp or water absorption used for general diapers It is also possible to arrange a material such as a conductive polymer in a range that does not cause a sense of incongruity before expansion.

  The shape of the excretion assisting tool of the present invention may be any shape as long as the excretion space can be appropriately formed. For example, planar shapes such as an O shape, a U shape, a quadrangle, a U shape, and a saddle shape may be mentioned, and the shape may change before and after forming the excretion space. In addition, the shape can be appropriately adjusted depending on the gender and state of the care recipient. O-shaped, U-shaped and U-shaped are preferable shapes. In particular, it has a U-shaped or U-shaped planar shape including a pair of arms that are substantially parallel (parallel or substantially parallel) before the excretion space is formed, and the distal ends of the arms are mutually expanded. Those that approach are particularly preferred. In this form of excretion assisting device, by attaching the arm part to the buttocks so that both ends of the arm part face the abdomen of the human body, the water absorption part of the diaper can be used effectively before the expansion, and the tip of the arm part is mutually expanded by the expansion. Therefore, the space for excretion can be formed efficiently. Moreover, it can deform | transform in accordance with a motion of a body by having an arm part.

  In such an excretion assisting device having an arm portion, in order to make the tips of a pair of substantially parallel arms close to each other by expansion, two synthetic resin films having the same shape are laminated and the periphery is heat-sealed. Thus, it is preferable to form an excretion aid. In this case, when the excretion assisting device is inflated, pressure is uniformly applied to each inner surface, so that a cylinder is formed from the flat surface, and the bottom surface portion expands and tends to shrink to about 2/3. At the same time, the width of the arm is also reduced, but the length of the base on the extension line of both sides of the arm does not change. Therefore, the arm part inevitably bends inward as a direction in which the width of the arm part may be reduced, and both ends of the arm part approach each other.

  Since the excretion assisting device of the present invention is flat in a state where no excretion space is formed, such as a state where air is not filled therein, it is possible to reduce space for storage before use. Moreover, it can wear | wear between a diaper and a body in the flat state before excretion, and the care recipient's wearing feeling in that case is also favorable.

  In addition, it is preferable that at least a part of the part of the excretion assisting device of the present invention that is in contact with the body has a better touch than the other part, for example, a non-woven fabric or the like for improving contact with the skin. Are preferably laminated. As an index of good touch, for example, it is conceivable that the coefficient of friction is small, the flexibility and the pressure dispersibility are high.

  The excretion assisting tool of the present invention is worn between the body of a care recipient who wears a diaper and the diaper, and forms a space for excretion between the diaper and the body. This excretion space is preferably formed after the excretion aid of the present invention is attached to a care recipient. That is, for example, it is possible to form an excretion space by wearing the excretion assisting device in a flat state on a care recipient and inflating the excretion assisting device when constipation has been made. Moreover, it can also be used like a so-called insertion toilet, in which an excretion aid is mounted between the diaper and the body in an expanded state. In general, the caregiver performs the supply of air to the excretion assisting device of the present invention (expansion of the excretion assisting device) or deaeration, but the care recipient himself / herself may also perform it.

  After excretion, the excretion aid of the present invention can be discarded along with the diaper. At that time, the volume of waste can be greatly reduced by eliminating the expansion, such as by degassing the excretion aid. The air from the excretion assisting device can be deaerated by inserting a straw-like member into the check valve.

  A specific example of the excretion assisting device of the present invention is shown in FIG. The excretion assisting device 1 in FIG. 1 is made of a synthetic resin film having flexibility and airtightness (the expansion state may be sustained for a predetermined time even if not completely airtight), and is part of the excretion assisting device. It has an opening 2 for filling the provided air, and a check valve 3 for preventing air leakage from the opening. FIG. 1 is a schematic view of an excretion assisting device in a state where the inside is filled with air and inflated, and the shape seen from a plane (a part in contact with the body) is substantially U-shaped as shown in FIG. Yes. In FIG. 1, 1 is an excretion assisting device of the present invention, and 2 is an opening for press-fitting air into the excretion assisting device 1. Here, a tube (air insertion port) is inserted into the opening 2 to enter the inside of the tube. Leakage of air from the opening 2 is prevented by providing the check valve 3. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 5 denotes an excretion space formed between the diaper and the body. This excretion assisting tool 1 is produced by overlaying synthetic resin films and heat-sealing the periphery. Reference numeral 4 in FIG. 1C denotes a heat seal portion. 1C is a schematic cross-sectional view of the dashed line portion in FIG. 1B, and the opening 2 and the check valve 3 are omitted (hereinafter, the same applies to the case where the cross-sectional shape is shown in other drawings as well). ). A comfortable member such as a non-woven fabric can be disposed at a portion of the excretion assisting device 1 that comes into contact with the body. In addition, the lengths a and b in FIG. 1A may be arbitrary, but as an example, a = 4 to 20 cm and b = 4 to 20 cm.

  This excretion assisting device is installed inside the diaper in a flat state when the diaper is attached or after the diaper is attached. Thereafter, air is supplied into the excretion assisting device from a tube with a check valve 3 provided in the opening 2 by a simple hand push or stepping air pump to obtain an excretion space between the diaper and the body.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the excretion assisting device of the present invention can have a substantially O-shaped shape when viewed from the plane.

  Moreover, the excretion assisting tool of the present invention can be structured such that the height in the cross section decreases as it goes to the space 5 as shown in FIG. 3 (c), and in this case, toward the excretion direction. Since the slope is formed, the contact condition with the collar portion is further improved. The inclination angle and the proportion of the inclined portion may be determined as appropriate.

  In addition, the excretion assisting device of the present invention can be formed so that the cross-sectional shape is wavy as shown in FIG. 4 (c), in which case the height in the cross-section is a space as shown in FIG. It is possible to adopt a structure that decreases as it goes to 5.

  In addition, the excretion assisting device of the present invention can be a fan having a smooth planar shape as shown in FIG.

  FIG. 6 schematically shows a state in which the excretion assisting tool of the present invention is worn between the body of the care recipient who wears the diaper and the diaper. In FIG. 6, 61 is an excretion assisting device of the present invention, and 62 is an excretion space formed between the diaper and the body. In this example, the excretion space 62 is formed around the anus of the wearer. Yes.

  Further, as shown in FIGS. 7 (a) and 7 (b), an alphabetic U-shape (FIG. 7 (a)) including a pair of substantially parallel arms 71 and 71 'and a U-shape of Katakana [FIG. 7 (b)] is also preferable. These are excretion assisting tools in which the tips of the arm portions 71 and 71 'approach each other by expansion.

It is the schematic which shows an example of the excretion assistance tool of this invention. It is the schematic which shows the other example of the excretion assistance tool of this invention. It is the schematic which shows the other example of the excretion assistance tool of this invention. It is the schematic which shows the other example of the excretion assistance tool of this invention. It is the schematic which shows the other example of the excretion assistance tool of this invention. It is the schematic which shows an example of the state which mounted | wore the nursing subject with the excretion assistance tool of this invention. It is the schematic which shows the other example of the excretion assistance tool of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1: Excretion assist tool 2: Opening 3: Check valve 4: Heat seal part 5: Excretion space 71, 71 ': Arm part

Claims (7)

  An excretion aid that can form an excretion space between the diaper and the body.   The excretion assisting device according to claim 1, wherein the excretion space is generated by expansion of the excretion assisting device.   The excretion assisting device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the excretion assisting device has an opening for filling air and a check valve for preventing leakage of air from the opening.   The U-shaped or U-shaped planar shape including a pair of substantially parallel arms before forming the space for excretion, and the tips of the arms approach each other by expansion. The excretion assistance tool of any one of Claims.   The excretion assisting tool according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the excretion assisting tool has an O-shaped planar shape before the excretion space is formed.   The excretion assisting tool according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the excretion space is formed around the anus of the wearer.   The excretion assisting device according to any one of claims 1 to 6 is worn between a body of a care recipient who wears a diaper and the diaper, and excreted by forming a space for excretion between the diaper and the body. , Excretion care method.

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