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Leg ulcer care: should we be washing the legs and taking time for effective skin care?

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Leg ulcer care: should we be washing the legs and taking time for effective skin care?

Ellie Lindsay, Jacqui Fletcher, Kim Drewery, Richard White, Rose Cooper

21 March 2016

The effective skin care of patients with ulceration of the lower limb involves washing (Lindsay, 2007; Stephens and Lindsay, 2008). This is not new information having been widely recommended in the literature for decades (David, 1986; Hampton and Collins, 2004; White, 2014).

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