Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) is one among my health problems since 1999. The first time it happened to me was weekend and the doctor in the hospital near to us was by on-call. I suffered two days and nights with 39C fever and severe headache.
I cannot remember how many times I suffered from this illness. I always presume that my headache is due to my sinusitis. It was only last September when I told the occupational therapist what I am suffering and he asked me if I had a history of any infection. I said, yes, I have recurring Urinary Tract Infection (UTI).
The doctor will only give a request for a urinalysis after consulting and then read the result and will say that I have Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). After such, they will prescribe antibiotic to treat my infection.
This time, I tried Hot Sitz Bath and it helps me to prevent me from using antibiotic. After treating for less than five minutes, my severe headache was gone. Here’s how to do it:
Things needed:
1. One large basin-deep enough for a person to sit in.
2. One smaller basin for the foot bath.
3. One smaller basin with ice or cold water and compress.
4. One towel, long enough to go around the head.
5. A sheet or blanket for wrapping around the body.
6. One Bath towel.
7. One large kettle for boiling of water.
8. One chair or stool.
Procedure:
1. Boil water in large kettle.
2. Put the large basin on the chair or on the floor, with small amount of water, hot enough for the patient to sit in it.
3. Remove clothing, underwear and under dressings if there are any. Drape with sheet or blanket.
4. Assist the patient to sit on the basin, placing the feet in the smaller basin of hot water.
5. Apply cold compress on the forehead and gradually add hot water to the hot sits basin and the foot basin, increasing the water temperature to the patient’s tolerance. Stir the water with hand as you add hot water. Be careful not to pour hot water on the patient’s buttocks and feet.
6. Renew cold compress to the head as often as you can. Continue adding hot water for from 20 to 30 minutes.
7. At the end of the treatment, pour cold water to the hot sits bath basin. Raise the feet and pour cold water to the feet and dry well.
8. Assist the patient out of the basin and give warm shower or sponge bath.
9. Let patient rest and keep warm after treatment.
Note: Hot sits bath is best done in the bathroom for the floor is likely to get wet.
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I cannot remember how many times I suffered from this illness. I always presume that my headache is due to my sinusitis. It was only last September when I told the occupational therapist what I am suffering and he asked me if I had a history of any infection. I said, yes, I have recurring Urinary Tract Infection (UTI).
The doctor will only give a request for a urinalysis after consulting and then read the result and will say that I have Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). After such, they will prescribe antibiotic to treat my infection.
This time, I tried Hot Sitz Bath and it helps me to prevent me from using antibiotic. After treating for less than five minutes, my severe headache was gone. Here’s how to do it:
Things needed:
1. One large basin-deep enough for a person to sit in.
2. One smaller basin for the foot bath.
3. One smaller basin with ice or cold water and compress.
4. One towel, long enough to go around the head.
5. A sheet or blanket for wrapping around the body.
6. One Bath towel.
7. One large kettle for boiling of water.
8. One chair or stool.
Procedure:
1. Boil water in large kettle.
2. Put the large basin on the chair or on the floor, with small amount of water, hot enough for the patient to sit in it.
3. Remove clothing, underwear and under dressings if there are any. Drape with sheet or blanket.
4. Assist the patient to sit on the basin, placing the feet in the smaller basin of hot water.
5. Apply cold compress on the forehead and gradually add hot water to the hot sits basin and the foot basin, increasing the water temperature to the patient’s tolerance. Stir the water with hand as you add hot water. Be careful not to pour hot water on the patient’s buttocks and feet.
6. Renew cold compress to the head as often as you can. Continue adding hot water for from 20 to 30 minutes.
7. At the end of the treatment, pour cold water to the hot sits bath basin. Raise the feet and pour cold water to the feet and dry well.
8. Assist the patient out of the basin and give warm shower or sponge bath.
9. Let patient rest and keep warm after treatment.
Note: Hot sits bath is best done in the bathroom for the floor is likely to get wet.
