About four days ago I started getting real itchy feeling uder picc line clear patch. It was red and inflamed around picc line and stat lock. it was so bad that my nurse did not put a stat lock back. Today it is red and inflamed covering half of the clear skin tape. Under the tape is real rough(scabed) and there is some yellow crap on and around the line.
My nurse seems to think that my problem is a reaction to the tapes and that the skin is gtting a slight infection possibly yeast. She is comming by today to check on it.
How can they fix a problem like this? will the line have to pulled?
Posted by pab (Member # 904) on :
Jake has had problems with a rash around his PICC site. What type of dressing do you use? Jake switched from Tegaderm to Op Site. He also has redness if the tape touches his skin.
Jake doesn't use a stat lock because that's where his rash started. When his rash was bad, he had a gauze dressing. The home health nurse had to change the bandage every 2 days.
Jake's nurse now puts a light coating of Triamcinolone cream under the dressing. It has stopped the rash. Triamcinolone is a prescription used to treat swelling, inflammation, and itching of skin conditions such as eczema, dermatitis, rashes, insect bites, poison ivy, allergies and other irritations.
Posted by DocLand (Member # 7794) on :
My husband also got a rash with the little pustules that had a yellow fluid leaking from them after about 8 weeks.
The suggestions that we got that helped were to 1)limit sweating/heat, so that you don't build up moisture under the bandage by sweating 2) no betadine, just alcohol when changing the bandage 3)switch to the Op bandages (more "breathable") 4)bandage changes twice a week
This seemed to help make mild improvement over the next 3 weeks, but then had to have the line pulled for other reasons (pain and pressure in the arm and chest area.)