**7. Discussion**

Patients are discouraged from mobilizing unnecessary to prevent pulling out of irrigation tubes. If a patient wants to go to the bathroom a plastic bag can be used to put the tubes, bellow, and drain bag in and the patient can carry it with the hand that is on the side of the limb with irrigations, for example, if the irrigations are on the left leg, the plastic bag should be carried on the left hand. The irrigation system should not be made to move across to the other side.

The patient is encouraged to reduce smoking; though this is a difficult thing to do the patient should be made aware that smoking will delay the process of wound healing [5].

If possible; the patient should not sleep on his own pajamas or blankets. They should use hospital linen, which can be changed daily so that the patient is nursed on a clean environment at all times. As the world has been engulfed by COVID-19 pandemic, most hospitals have changed their rules as far as visiting relatives are concerned, so it might be impossible for the family to bring clean pajamas every day for their relatives. The patient is also encouraged to take high protein foods to promote wound healing.
