Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-13
HOT AIR BATH.
Simple Way of Aiding Kidneys That
Are Weakened.

When the kidneys are diseased and
therefore cannot do their full duty,
the skin is urged to do double work
by means of hot air baths.
A simple home way to give such a
bath, and one requiring no great
amount of apparatus. is as follows:
Gather together a wooden chair
blankets, an alcohol lamp small tin
pan, foot tub or deep basin, small
towel and two large ones. a good
supply of hot and cold water, paper
of strong pins, and something hot for
your patient to drink, as hot lemonade,
saffron tea. hot water. etc. If in ad-
dition to these things you can procure
large piece of oilcloth (take the
cover of the kitchen table, or g
macintosh, it will be an advantage.
Get every one of these things placed
to your hand and see that your lamp
is full before you begin.
Remove all the patients clothing.
Pin blanket around her and place
her in the chair. allowing the blanket
to fall over the back of the chair Put
her feet in the small tub in which
you have about foot of water as hot
as she can bear it.
Now pin the oilcloth round the chair
and up over the knees, letting it come
we'll to the ground and reaching up as
high as it will. Light your lamp, put
| it in the tin pan and so place it under
| the chair.
Put on the other three blankets. the
| first one in front. covering the foot tub
and knees, the second one from the
back to meet this, and the third one
over the chest and shoulders around
outside the back of the chair.
| Wet your small towel in cold water
and put it on the head turban fashion,
bringing it well down on the forehead.
Give your patient the hot drink, of
course not allowing her to get hand
from under cover to help herself.
The bath is now established, but if
you are not person who can move
very quickly you should have an
assistant, for you require to keep
changing the cold head owel quite
often, assisting the patient with hot
drinks three or four glasses of which
she ought to take during a bath). and
every few moments adding hot water
to the foot bath to keep it just as hot
as the patient can bear, and also to
keep moving the lamp about, as there
is danger of scorching the skin ii the
flame is continually directed on one
spot.
Your assistant can fill and put in the
bed two hot water bottles, one for the
feet and one to place at the small of
the back. Also arrange the bed so as
to have the patient between blankets.
Let her accomplish this as soon as she
can, so as to have the bed thoroughly
warm when the patient returns to il.
Twenty to thirty minutes is usually
long enough to keep a patient in this
bath, and less time than this if she
gets at all exhausted.
When ready to leave the bath re-
move the lamp and begin drying at
the face and neck, then arms. chest
and back and so on down. taking care
to expose the surface as little as poss,.
bic, and rubbing vigorously. During
this drying process it is an advantage
to have two people. When you have
got as far as the waist dry, put on the
undervest and gown, and pin blanket
around the shoulders. When all dry
get her into bed as soon as you can
and let her rest, taking care that she
is well covered up with extra covers
and removing these by degrees as she
coos off.-Charlotte G. Eastwood in
Mrlrch L ndrrnr. nr--anr =