| This bath can be taken from two to 15 minutes at a | | | | 30 to 45 minutes. This bath should be given when |
| temperature from 36.60C to 400C. Generally this | | | | the menstruation is due and may be repeated for |
| bath is started at 370C and the temperature is then | | | | two to three days in succession. In dysmenorrhoea, |
| gradually raised to the required level by adding hot | | | | this bath should be given at 380C to 44.40C for 15 |
| water. Before entering the bath, the patient should | | | | minutes. |
| drink cold water and also wet the head, neck and | | | | In chronic bronchitis a very hot bath taken for 5 to 7 |
| shoulders with cold water. A cold compress should be | | | | minutes should be accompanied with rubbing and |
| applied throughout the treatment. This bath can be | | | | friction. This relieves congestion of the mucous |
| advantageously employed in dropsy when there is | | | | membrane and provides immediate relief After the |
| excessive loss of tone of the heart and blood. This | | | | bath, oil should be applied to the skin if necessary. |
| bath also relieves capillary bronchitis and bronchial | | | | The hot bath is a valuable treatment in chronic |
| pneumonia in children. It relieves congestation of the | | | | rheumatism and obesity. It gives immediate relief |
| lungs and activates the blood vessels of the skin | | | | when there is pain due to stones in the gall bladder |
| muscles. The bath should be terminated as soon as | | | | and the kidneys. The hot bath should not be taken in |
| the skin becomes red. | | | | cases of organic diseases of the brain or spinal cord, |
| In pneumonia and suppressed menstruation, the bath | | | | nor in cases of cardiac weakness and cardiac |
| should be administered at 37.70C to 400C for about | | | | hypertrophy. |