6 Excellent Tips for Finding Chux Pads
June 28, 2024
By Hayley Milne
We understand the importance of finding the perfect Chux pads for your incontinence needs. In this article, we’ll explore five excellent tips to help you discover the ideal Chux pad.
What Are Chux Pads?
Chux pads are highly absorbent, disposable or washable pads designed to protect beds, bedding, furniture, or other surfaces from incontinence accidents or spills. They are also called bed pads, pee pads, chucks pads, bedwetting pads, or underpads.
These bed pads for incontinence are commonly used in healthcare settings, for elderly care, and by individuals with urinary issues. They offer a convenient and hygienic solution to keep your bedding and furniture clean and dry. Tranquility incontinence products offers a variety of underpads that can absorb up to 34.0 oz of fluid.
Our incontinence underpads quickly wick wetness away from the body keeping moisture away from sensitive skin which helps prevent skin breakdown and makes cleanup easy.
Benefits of Disposable Bed Pads (or Washable Bed Pads)
1. Better Sleep Throughout the Night
A good night’s sleep is essential for everyone’s physical and emotional health. When dealing with incontinence issues or the potential for bladder episodes, worries about bedwetting or leakages can disrupt sleep patterns and lead to restless nights. However, with the right super absorbent Chux pad, you can create a worry-free environment.
Tranquility Products’ high-quality Chux pads are designed to provide optimal absorbency, effectively locking away fluid and preventing it from reaching the bedding, sheets or furniture. As a result, you or your loved ones can enjoy uninterrupted sleep, knowing that the Chux pad has you covered throughout the night.
2. Effortless Cleanup and Convenience
Accidents and spills happen, but dealing with the aftermath doesn’t have to be a cumbersome task. The appropriate Chux pad, also known as a bedwetting pad or underpads, can significantly simplify your daily routine and save you valuable time and effort.
For those using disposable disposable underpads, the ease is evident. After use, you can simply dispose of the disposable bed pads, avoiding the need for labor-intensive cleaning. Tranquility’s high absorbency disposable bed pads are crafted with top-notch materials, ensuring reliable protection and easy disposal.
If you prefer reusable underwear options to save money or help the environment, several brands offers washable bed pads that are both environmentally friendly and cost-effective. Washable underpads are built to withstand multiple washes while retaining their absorbent properties, providing a more sustainable solution.
Several of our bed pads feature adhesive backing, keeping them securely in place during use, without worrying about the bed pads shifting or flaps becoming dislodged.
At Tranquility Products, we believe that ease should be a top priority when it comes to finding the right bed pads for incontinence only. By selecting our bed pads for incontinence protection, you can focus on what truly matters – enjoying life’s moments, whether at home or on the go, without the fear of potential leaks or spills.
3. Multiple Uses for Several Occasions – Including Pets
Underpads can be used by adults, a child, or pets. We frequently hear from users that purchase for themselves or a loved one that the incontinence chuck pads have been extremely useful to providing another layer of absorbency to beds and other surfaces. They help capture liquids of all types – originally created for incontinence, we have customers who have shared they use our 30 x 36 underpads as a reusable layer under dogs’ water bowls to catch any excess splashes, or underneath plants to capture any water that flows through the drainage holes.
How to find the right Chux Pads: 6 Tips
Choosing the right disposable underpads or washable bed pads for you or a loved one is essential for several reasons. Firstly, it ensures that you or your loved one can sleep soundly and comfortably, free from any uncomfortable concerns about accidents or leaks. Secondly, using the appropriate bed pads can save time cleaning up messes, making your daily routine more convenient. Here are some factors to consider:Consider the material of the incontinence pads
1. Determine the size of the incontinence pads needed
2. Check absorbency levels of the pad and consider if you need more than one layer
3. Check out online reviews for chucks pads
4. Consider whether you want a disposable underpad or washable chucks pads
5. Check bed for any product leakage in the morning (absorbency test)
Tranquility Disposable Underpads
Tranquility incontinence products offers several options of disposable underpads or chucks pads that are super absorbent, to protect your bed, sheets, mattress, and chairs from incontinence episodes. We do not offer washable chux or washable underpads at this point in time.
Tranquility® AIR-Plus™ Breathable Underpads
Tranquility® Premium AIR-Plus™ Breathable Underpads offer complete sensitive skin health protection while guarding your home’s surfaces – like the bed, sheets, and chairs. It features 100% breathable materials in the pad that allow humidity to escape.
Designed with PowerSorb® embossed channels to rapidly draw wetness into the core, the disposable underpads hold and lock in up to 34 oz of urine (for reference, the average adult releases 8-12 oz, or 1-1.5 cups, when they urinate). This means you will have ample capacity and absorbency for overnight protection with these incontinence pads.
The quick-wicking absorbency pad also minimizes unpleasant odors.
The clothlike topsheet is gentle against skin. Backsheet is wetness-proof to ensure fluid will not leak through to a bed or mattress. These 30″ x 36″ bed pads are specifically designed for use with low-air-loss beds, or great added protection on furniture, wheelchairs and other surfaces.
Choose Premium AIR-Plus Breathable Underpads for complete comfort, protecting sheets from leakage with the disposable pads high absorbency.
Lay pads printed side down against bed mattress, chair or other surface. This is a disposable absorbent of chux pads; it is not washable.
Tranquility® AIR-Plus™ Extra Strength Underpads
Tranquility® Premium AIR-Plus™ Extra-Strength Breathable Underpads provide freedom of movement, with a stronger backsheet that can be shifted for boosting, turning and repositioning* up to 350 lbs.
The 100% breathable materials allow heat and humidity to escape and air to circulate, providing skin health protection.
PowerSorb® embossed channels rapidly draw moisture into the premium superabsorbent core for maximum absorbency, which holds and locks in up to 34 oz of urine (for reference, the average adult releases 8-12 oz, or 1-1.5 cups, when they urinate – please note it is not intended for bowel incontinence). This means you will have ample capacity for all-night protection.
The quick-wicking action also minimizes unpleasant odors.
The clothlike topsheet is gentle against skin, which helps minimize pressure ulcers by reducing friction and shear. The backsheet of these bed pads is moisture-proof to ensure fluid will not leak through. These 30″ x 36″ disposable underpads are designed to help reposition those in your care and pairs well with low-air-loss beds, or offers great added protection on furniture, wheelchairs and other surfaces.
Premium AIR-Plus Extra-Strength Breathable Underpads provide complete comfort with enhanced ability to reposition. This is a disposable absorbent chux; it is not washable/cannot be washed.
*Product should be used in accordance with Safe Patient Handling Guidelines. Lay printed side down against bed, chair or other surface.
Tranquility® Heavy-Duty Underpads
Tranquility® Heavy-Duty Disposable Underpad features a durable, absorbent clothlike backsheet that provides better surface grip and helps to avoid slips and tears as an individual moves.
The superabsorbent core minimizes unpleasant incontinence odors by absorbing and locking in up to 34 oz of liquid or urine (for reference, the average adult releases 8-12 oz, or 1-1.5 cups, when they urinate). Fluid in the core will not be forced out due to body movement.
These 30″ x 36″ incontinence bed pads are ideal for use on a bed, mattress, furniture and other soft surfaces.
Heavy-Duty Underpads are durable and offer maximum protection. This is a disposable absorbent chux; it is not washable.
Bed Pads For Incontinence
In conclusion, finding the perfect bed pads for incontinence is crucial for a peaceful and worry-free experience. Consider the material, size, waterproof properties, absorbency, and comfort features to select the disposable bed pads or washable bed pads that best cater to your needs. Tranquility Products is committed to providing top-of-the-line Chux pads that deliver exceptional performance, allowing you or your loved ones to sleep soundly and comfortably while simplifying your daily routine.
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
Can Chux Pads Help with Incontinence Odor?
Tranquility brand Chux pads are made to reduce odors by quickly absorbing liquid, helping to neutralize its odor and locking in fluid and odor so they cannot escape.
Are There Light Absorbency Chux Pads?
Yes. Many hospitals use Chux pads to absorb urine and blood. Because they are used in high quantities, for short periods of time, low-absorbency Chux pad work great in these areas.
Are Chux and Underpads the Same Thing?
Disposable underpads, also referred to as bed pads, are the evolution of traditional chux pads. These new and improved underpads were significantly more absorbent than Chux pads while also offering enhanced odor control. Chux pads are still used in acute care and other settings where low absorbency underpads are needed. Chux pads are used during surgeries to absorb urine and blood. However, for those with incontinence, higher-absorbency underpads are preferred and provide better results.
To learn more, check out this blog from one of our online supply partners, Comfort Plus.
Hayley Milne
Hayley is a Brand Supervisor for Consumer Marketing at Principle Business Enterprises, parent company of Tranquility Brand Continence Care Products. She has 10+ years of experience leading tactical integration of business objectives and guiding creative execution. She is passionate about brand and customer experience.
For more information or questions about this article, please call 1-419-352-1551 or email CustomerService@pbenet.com.
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