Tag: medical lubricant

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Why Lubricant is a Wise Choice For Promoting Fertility

Infertility is a fairly common problem that affects more than 12% of married couples who attempt to conceive. Of this percentage, only about 12% of infertility problems are due to actual medical incompatibility or inability to conceive. A good portion of the difficulties that couples face is due more to the fact that healthy couples only have a 20-25% chance of conceiving in any given month and a shift in social norms that make conception more difficult. The good news

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The Pros and Cons of Using HR Lubricating Jelly as a Personal Lubricant

You cannot make one of the best lubricants that the industry has to offer and feature product benefits that include: Water Soluble, Non-Staining, Glycerin-Free, Latex-Free, Sterile Bacteriostatic, and Premium Viscosity and not expect people to not use it for all of their lubrication needs. At HR Pharmaceuticals, we are proud to manufacture products that can be used in a variety of settings to improve the quality of life of the end-user. While we don’t encourage alternative uses, we are aware that our products can be used

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How HR Lubricating Jelly is a Superior Product

At HR Pharmaceuticals, we strive to consistently deliver superior product quality, and extraordinary product performance for personal care, consumer, and medical supply products. Our medical lubricants have been trusted in the medical community for 90 years, and their features and benefits unequivocally define them as superior to the alternatives. Take, for instance, HR Lubricating Jelly, a premium universal medical lubricant. When you purchase a tube of HR lubricating jelly, you will get some amazing benefits. We’d like to take a

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