Extra Gloves

Have extra gloves from trach care kits, cath kits or overstock.  Medical gloves are great hand protection for:

- Crafts
- Painting
- House Cleaning
- Gardening
- Raw Meat Handling
- Taking out the Trash
- Yard Work
- Bathroom Cleaning
- Hair Dying
- Clothing Dye
- Hand Washed Laundry
- Car Washing
- Pet Care

Saline "Bullet" Multi-Use

Many parents receive bulk quantities of saline "bullets" (hypertonic saline) per month from their durable medical equipment (DME) supplier to be used for suctioning assistance in kiddos with tracheostomy tubes.  But did you know that Saline Bullets can also be used for the following:

- Contact Lenses Storage and Cleaning
- Healing Wound Wash
- Sterile Rinse for Stoma sites, i.e. gtubes, colostomy, tracheostomy, etc.
- Eye Drops or Eye Rinse
- A nebulized solution to break up thick lung secretions
- Blood Stop (refrigerate saline and droplet on small cuts/scratches to inhibit bleeding)
- Neti Pot Use
- Pet Care (eye, nose, ear drops, wound wash)

No Need to Crush

Instead of crushing pills that are water
or liquid soluble (dissolve quickly), drop
whole pills into an oral syringe and
draw up water into the syringe.  Cap the syringe
(if a cap is available) and let sit until
dissolved.  Give it a good shake
and admin.