Postpartum-Tucks and Spray

[babaloo]

What are tucks and spray used for (for example sooze pads and Dermoplast) in the postpartum period and how do you apply them?

[KRVRN, BSN, RN]

In school you learn what tucks and spray are supposed to do, but you might not get the down and dirty details of what goes where and when. With my first baby I had to ask how to use it all. It sounds like a homework question but so what?

[Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP]

In school you learn what tucks and spray are supposed to do, but you might not get the down and dirty details of what goes where and when. With my first baby I had to ask how to use it all. It sounds like a homework question but so what?

When it's a homework question, the instructor probably wants the student to think critically instead of asking someone else to feed them an answer. That helps no one become a better nurse.

[KRVRN, BSN, RN]

When it's a homework question, the instructor probably wants the student to think critically instead of asking someone else to feed them an answer. That helps no one become a better nurse.

My point was that the in-depth down and dirty what-goes-where-and-on-what isn't really taught in textbooks.

[RNlove17]

Personal experience (just had a baby). Dermoplast was the BEST. Spray that on the area after wiping/before pulling up pants. My nurse said some people spray it directly on their pad, but I found it more effective spraying it on my skin.

I didn't really use the tucks but the couple times i did i just wiped my behind with it and threw it out. Some people may leave them in on their pad... I think it's just personal preference, there's no real "right" or "wrong"

[KRVRN, BSN, RN]

What all is needed kind of depends on how bad things are. Episiotomy? 1st degree tear? 4th?