News – HR Lubricating Jelly

HR Lubricating Jelly Updates Packaging Graphics

HR® Lubricating Jelly is making changes to our packaging. HR Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is in the process of updating the packaging graphics for HR® Lubricating Jelly to communicate our product features better. The updated packaging focuses on our key product features – Sterile, Water Soluble, Bacteriostatic, and CHG-Free. Customers may have already begun to receive the new packaging for many of our items. This update will continue throughout 2022. It is important to emphasize that the product has not changed. We

March 30, 2022 No Comments

Making Care More Comfortable: Gastrostomy (G) Tubes

Gastrostomy tubes often called a G-tube or button feeding tube, is a tube inserted through the belly that brings nutrition directly to the stomach for those who cannot eat enough for adequate nutrition. A G-tube is considered a more long-term feeding method compared to a nasogastric tube, or NG-tube, which carries food to the stomach through the nose. Caring for Your G-Tube Daily care and maintenance of your gastrostomy site and G-tube are an essential part of your tube feeding

March 21, 2022 No Comments

A Guide to Preventing Caregiver Stress

Caring for a loved one can be one of the most challenging and stressful roles an individual can undertake. While many individuals are unprepared to become caregivers, more than 1 in 5 Americans (21.3 percent) have become primary caregivers for a loved one over the last 12 months. As a caregiver, it is natural to focus on the health of your loved one, but it is important to recognize when your own health is suffering, as too much stress can

February 8, 2022 No Comments

Why ISC Users Choose HR Lubricating Jelly for Self-Catheterization

Millions of people rely on self-catheterization to empty their bladder due to conditions such as urinary bladder retention, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, and more. If you are an uncoated straight catheter user, a high-quality sterile catheter lubricant is an important addition to your catheter regimen to ensure a comfortable experience and reduce pain, discomfort, and the risk of urethral trauma. With so many lubricants on the market today, it can be hard to choose the right

January 5, 2022 1 Comment

Making a Prostate Exam as Comfortable as Possible: Caring For Your Patients

In honor of November being prostate cancer awareness month, today’s post is dedicated to discussing prostate exams and how medical professionals can help make them as comfortable as possible. This is in an effort to help promote as many men as possible to have their prostates checked to reduce the incidence of prostate cancer or to identify it in the earlier stages. Before we dive right into the performance of the prostate exam, let’s review a few prostate cancer statistics

October 25, 2019 No Comments

A Review of the Trends of Colorectal Cancer

In our last post, we discussed rectal health and how you can take care of your gut to help prevent colorectal cancer. In today’s post, we are going to discuss why this is so important and review the trends of colorectal cancer. Colorectal Cancer Before we jump right into the changing trends in colorectal cancer, let’s first discuss a little about colorectal cancer. Colorectal cancer is, as its name implies, cancer that develops in the colon or the rectum. Colorectal cancer

September 12, 2019 No Comments

A Guide to Rectal Health

In recent years, colorectal cancers have begun getting the attention they deserve. Cancer is the second leading cause of death (behind heart disease) in the United States. Another runner up, colorectal cancer is the second most fatal cancer (behind lung and bronchial cancer). With smoking rates dropping and no recent change in rectal health discussions, many are fearful that these two will one-day swap positions on the top of the “deadliest cancers” list. Colorectal cancer and other disorders are frequently

August 15, 2019 No Comments

A Guide to Bladder Health

There are books, podcasts, blogs, and magazines dedicated to helping people improve their lives by focusing on the function of a certain organ or body part — your brain, heart, and reproductive organs — but one commonly overlooked organ you should pay attention to is your bladder! That’s right, that small, seemingly insignificant organ that serves as a collection point for liquid waste. Not many people take notice of their bladder until something is wrong with it — pain due

July 12, 2019 No Comments

10 Nursing Supplies You Cannot Operate Without!

Nurses, once they leave a report, are on the floor, working hard their entire shift. In and out of each room, with hardly a moment to spare to use the restroom, they are charged with keeping themselves armed and prepared for any situation they may encounter — roving caretakers. While most facilities provide mobile workstations, this does little for the nurse who is not at their cart the moment they need something. Follow along in today’s post as we discuss

May 24, 2019 No Comments

5 Things That Affect the Effectiveness of Your Exam Gloves

Regular exam gloves exist for the sole purpose of providing a barrier between your hands and whatever you are touching. It is important to remember that standard exam gloves in the box are clean, but still require some degree of hand hygiene to protect your patients. In any setting where exam gloves are used, there are a number of things that can affect how well your gloves work that you should be aware of. Join us in today’s post as

May 10, 2019 No Comments