FOMENTATION

Definition:

Local compress with cloth daubed of boiling water or steamed cloth ..

Effect:

1. Increases blood flow

2. Relax the muscles

3. Provide peace, if worn on spine

4. Eliminate pain

5. Eliminate spasms

6. Eliminate congestion

7. Causing sweat out

What is required:

1. At least five bath towels

2. A baskomkecil for water ice

3. A piece of cloth or face towel to compress

4. A piece of blankets or sheets to cover patients

5. A teapot to boil water

Procedure:

1. Uninstall patient clothes and cover him with a sheet or blanket

2. Provide a bowl of ice water and compress the bedside of patients

3. Close the windows near the bed the patient to avoid the wind

4. Close the part to be treated with a bath towel

5. Asleep towel bath of boiling water

6. Spread a dry towel on the table and wrap it with hot water

7. Place the hot towel to the body part to be treated, on a dry towel.

8. Give dinginpada compress the patient's head. Change it for 3 times each time a compress made

9. Replace the hot compresses it three times, while immediate drying compressed portion. Change compress every 5 minutes, or until cool. But do not wait for it to cool very well.

10. Prepare a hot towel before use hot towel removed from the treated part

11. After the last fomentasi finished, rub the part quickly daubed with a cold compress of ice water.

12. Drain thoroughly and rub it with a warm cloth bath

13. Let the patient rest after this treatment.

Warning:

1. Protect body parts such sensitive bony parts, and also new scars. Underweight patients more comfort bones, just a warm compress suggested. If the pain keenly felt by injury, did compress as warm as can be tolerated without causing burns.

2. If fomentasi hot, rub the parts by hand under hot towel or use two towels wrapping.

3. Do not make cold sufferers. If the patient's feet cold, wrap the feet with hot fomentasi while being careful not membakartumit and toes.

4. Be careful with diabetic and unconscious. People with children and the elderly are very sensitive to heat. Give them a warm compress alone, and not a hot compress.