Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Hydrothermic Remedies...

• Light diet
• Push water
• Keep patient quiet in darkened room
• if eruptions are delayed, Wet Sheet Pack

For Fever:-

• Sponge lightly with hot water or
• Hot Tub Bath, every 2 hours, 1min for each year of age of child
• Avoid chill

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

Pathological Problems:

• Low Resistance - use Wet Sheet Pack and Graduated Tub Bath
• Prevent Active Chest Congestion and its complications

Clinical Problems:

• Naso-Pharyngeal Irritation
• Headache
• Delayed Eruption
• Middle Ear Inflammation
• Acute Nephritis
• Haemorrhagic Measles
• Cough and Viscid Phlegm
• Bronchial Irritation
• Nose Bleed
• Eye Inflammations

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

Problems:

• Acute Nephritis
• Dry Eruptions
• Toxaemia

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

Rash, fever, coryza

Aims:

• Make comfortable during fever and coryza
• Relieve internal congestion
• Prevent Broncho-pneumonia by increasing resistance

Treatment:

Begin before eruption (4th day).

To encourage eruption and relieve congestion:

• brief Diaphoretics with Cooling Compress to head and...
• Hot Water Drinking
• Sweating Pack if not chilly

To prevent Broncho-pneumonia:

• Graduated Tub Bath (no rubbing) with...
• Pail Pour to shoulders and chest

To relieve stupor or delirium;

• Cephalic Douche

Antipyretic:

• Cooling Pack between

Problems:

• Broncho-pneumonia can be fatal
• Visceral Congestion in early stages