Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Hydrothermic Remedies...

Observe patient carefully and apply treatment with great care

Treatment:

• Cold Mitten Friction 3 X daily
• Neutral Tub Bath 32°C, every 3 hours, if not successful...
• Hot Tub Bath 38°C for 1min, increasing to 42°C for 3min for small child, 6min for children over 9 years. Pail Pour at end if difficulty breathing but no lower than 34°C To reduce cerebral congestion and relieve cerebral symptoms:-
• Hot Leg Pack with Ice Pack to Neck (front and back) and Head when this is in progress...
  • Alternate Compress to Spine

To relax muscular rigidity:-

• Warm Tub Bath at 37.5°C

To increase removal of toxins from brain especially in Meningococcal Meningitis:-

• Therapeutic Fever 30min daily x 5 - body temperature of 40°C
• Perform in bath tub - raise water temperature slowly to 43.5°C

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

General Method:

• Relieve congestion of brain and spinal cord by diverting blood to the warm skin with...
• Hot Blanket Pack with Cooling Coil
  • Cephalic Compress,
  • Ice Collar and
  • Cold Spinal Compress
• Hot Tub Bath 39°C 2-5 min with similar cold to head followed by heating Wet Sheet Pack
• prolonged Neutral Tub Bath
• Copious Enema or Coloclyster 1-2x a day
• Prevent cerebral and cardiac irritation by cold to head and heart during the heating procedures
• Careful Cold Mitten Friction 3-4x a day to increase resistance with heat to legs and spine to prevent retrostasis

Contra-indications:

• general Cold procedures (cools the skin)

Pathological Problems:

• Cerebro-Spinal Congestion
• Prevent Bronchitis

Clinical Problems:

• Congestive Headache
• Backache and leg pain
• Vomiting
• Diarrhoea
• Muscle Rigidity
• Hyperaesthesia
• Delirium or Mania
• Muscle Spasm

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

Problems:

• Autointoxication
• Cerebral Irritability - Ice Bag - Ice Collar
• Cerebro-Spinal Congestion
• Paralysis
• Toxaemia
• Nervous System Irritability especially - Continuous Tub Bath

Cerebro-spinal:

• Fluxion
  • Spinal Alternate Applications
• Vascular Antiphlogistics
  • cold Local Pail Pour
  • Ice Collar as Proximal Compress
• Antipyretic
• Cooling Coil to head

Contra-indications

• Shallow Bath

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

Problems:

• Coma
• Delirium
• Organic Headaches

Acute stage of cerebro-spinal M. : Derivative

• Ice Bag to base of brain and upper spine, cravat and cap continuously with...
  • Hot Foot Bath or
  • Hot Hip and Leg Pack or
• large Fomentations to limbs and abdomen, at intervals
• finished with Cold Mitten Friction to the heated area

Chronic tubercular M. - opisthotonos, restlessness, delirium, headache or coma are best treated together with...

• warm Hot Tub Bath see Convulsions of Childhood

see Muscle Rigidity