Advice on hygiene for boy in adolescence who wears diaper?

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Hello, we ask your advice. Our son who is adolescence is very autistisch and wearing diaper. He does not make his own hygiene so we must give assistance of him always. He now is growing thickly body hairs which when he have bowels movement make removing his faeces away very difficult and time consuming for us and also uncomfortable for him as he is extreme sensitive of touching. We are of Sikh religion and not permitted of cutting hair. There is a more effective way for we can manage this situation? Thank you.

My mother was in a nursing home for years, and there are different cleaners that they use in that situation besides soap and water. You'd use the cleansers first, get the bulk of the stool off, and soap with water as a final step.

I worked in a hospital as a tech. In your situation, we used hand lotion to get the mess in the hair out. You can even warm up the bottle a little, so it isn't so cold. Then a little soap and water.

We also used the PLAIN Barbasol shaving cream in the can. That worked well too. You don't need much of the cream to get the job done. (Google to see if they have it in your country, or what brand would be similar)

If your son goes to physical therapy, ask them what they would recommend. Your problem isn't that unusual.

Hope this helps.

Sometimes if it gets particularly messy we have my son take a shower. He is very small still, though, and loves showers.

I knew a Sikh guy and he broke his leg and had to have surgery on it. They shaved it before surgery. It was for a medical reason, so it was ok. I'd imagine that cutting your son's hair down there for medical reasons would be ok, as long as it's not for vanity or something. It can prevent a rash and infection, and it's for a real medical cause, not just for convenience.

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I believe the hospitals I go to use something like this to clean patients who have soiled themselves.

http://www.sageproducts.com/products/pr ... d-bathing/

Going off what Oliveoilmom said, I would talk to a religious authority about the permissibility of shaving based on a medical need.

My son wears diapers and he eats sand and it can get to be a real gritty mess and trouble to clean up (I rate it on the number wipes required, a 10-wiper is bad) anyway if we put Fatty cream on him liberally (which is cream you can get in great big tubs) before we put the diaper on when it comes time to clean up it is so much easier because it all slides off.