Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Hydrothermic Remedies...

Early treatment before eruption...

• Hot Water Drinking
• very Hot Tub Bath

If eruption is delayed...

• Wet Sheet Pack prolonged to heating stage

After eruption has fully developed...

• cooling Wet Sheet Pack, Graduated bath for fever
  • Copious Water drinking

To prevent throat complications...

• Steam Inhalation, Throat Irrigation and Heating Compress

General treatment...

• Hot Blanket Pack 3-8 min followed by cooling
  • Wet Sheet Pack or
  • tepid Pail Pour 27-29°C Avoid chilling.

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

General Method:

At beginning: encourage eruption by:

• Hot Water Drinking
• Very Hot Tub Bath
• heating Wet Sheet Pack

Later after eruption is fully developed: Antipyretics

• Cooling Pack
• Graduated Tub Bath
• Cold Enema
• copious Water Drinking

Prevent throat infection spreading to ears by:

• Fomentations to throat 10 min every hour with interval Ice Bag
• Steam Inhalation
• Throat Irrigation
• Throat Compress 15°C changed every 15 min then protected
  • Heating Compress changed every 3 hours
• Spray throat with peroxide every hour

Contra-indications:

• short Cold Tub Bath
• Prolonged Hot Tub Bath
• all measures that diminish heat elimination and increase heat production

Pathological Problems:

• Albuminuria
• Low Resistance
• Autointoxication

Clinical Problems:

• Retention Fever or Production Fever
• Delayed Eruption
• Diarrhoea
• Vomiting
• Convulsions
• Pharyngitis
• Delirium
• Desquamation
• Acute Nephritis causing Uraemia
• Pleuritic Pain
• Rheumatic Pains
• Cardiac Inflammation as in Pericarditis
• Intestinal Inflammation
• Active Chest Congestion
• Enlarged Liver and Spleen

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

Problems:

• Acute Nephritis
• Dry Eruptions
• acute Renal Congestion

Antipyretic

• Oil Rub

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

Diffuse scarlet erythema, sore throat, tonsillitis

Aims: (in common with all fevers)

• Maintain resistance
• Increase phagocytosis
• Promote elimination
• Sustain heart and circulation
• Control nervous manifestations
• Prevent congestion - must produce strong reaction

Problems:

• Chronic Nephritis
• Endocarditis
• Infectious Arthritis
• Valvular Heart Disease
• Visceral Congestion in early stages

Treatment:

Before eruption: as for Measles

After Eruption:

• brief Diaphoretics then
  • brief non-friction cold

eg.

• Hot Tub Bath then Graduated Tub Bath
• Fomentations then Cooling Pack
• Water Drinking >2 lt/day to prevent kidney damage can be lemon

For sore throat...

• Fomentations to neck and upper chest with
• Hot Foot Bath and Cooling Compress to sweating then
• heating Throat Compress between

For temperature over 39.5°C... Antipyretics

• Graduated Tub Bath
• Cooling Pack
• cold Pour

To aid desquamation and prevent contagion:

• Cold Mitten Friction or Salt Glow then Oil Rub to prevent further loss of contagious scabs