Treatment of stroke by water procedures

Stroke is a serious illness accompanied by a sharp disruption of blood flow in the brain tissues. With the subsequent partial or complete dying of the brain tissue. The cause is thrombosis( damage) of the vessel. The resulting hematoma blocks the normal operation of the brain.

Symptoms of stroke:

• acute pain in the head;
• drowsiness, inhibited condition;
• loss of consciousness;
• change of complexion;
• convulsions;
• vomiting;
• partial or complete paralysis.

Stroke happens:

• hemorrhagic( rupture of the vessel);
• is ischemic( capillary thrombosis).

The precursors of this disease in both cases are cardiovascular diseases. The sad statistics show - in 80% of cases the stroke ends with a lethal or disability. Recovery and recovery depends on the vastness of the affected tissues, the provision of qualified medical care and properly selected rehabilitation.

Treatment of stroke by water procedures

In this article, we consider one of the types of recovery of a patient after suffering a severe disease - a stroke. Hydrotherapy has no analogues among rehabilitation measures. Therefore, after in-patient treatment, many doctors recommend water rehabilitation. Especially if the motor function of a person is impaired. Movement in the water is easier - almost as before the disease, there are no significant loads on the body. The difference in temperature with water procedures helps to restore the motor function to the limbs. A variety of therapeutic baths relieve pain, restore blood circulation, prevent relapse of the disease.

The following water procedures are distinguished:

• steam baths;
• rubbing, wrapping;
• bath;
• half-baked.

Steam baths for head area

Boil water in a container. After adding a handful of dill seeds. The patient to strip to the waist, plant, tilt his head above the steam, putting the broth on a stool and covering his head with a towel. After 10 minutes, wipe the scalp and face with cool water.

Steam baths for feet

They are made according to the principle of steam baths for the head. You can do sitting or lying. The broth is placed between the bed and the chair above which are the patient's legs. Top covered with a blanket. The procedure lasts 10 minutes, after which the skin is wiped with cold water and wiped dry.

Wash and body wrap

Rub the body from top to bottom with a wet cold towel. After, without drying the skin, they put on linen and do simple exercises. This procedure stimulates blood microcirculation and is indicated for the rehabilitation of fully immobilized people.

The wrap is done in the following way: the patient is wrapped in a sheet soaked in cold water and wrapped in heat. After two hours, the procedure is finished, the skin is wiped and clothes are changed. This kind of rehabilitation causes irritating effect. That allows to restore sensitivity.

Baths

The use of healing baths requires some rules: these procedures should be reclining, the water level should not go beyond the heart line.

Baths with the use of hay are considered one of the most effective in the treatment of stroke. In a dense layer of gauze pour about 900 g hay and boil in 6 liters of water for 30 minutes. Broth pour into a warm bathroom. The first procedure is 30 minutes, gradually increasing the time to an hour. Turpentine baths help relieve pain and resist the death of nerve cells, because the composition includes products of processing of needles. Make it simple, most importantly, use a yellow emulsion: boil a glass of castor oil, dissolve in 200 ml 2 tbsp. L.Caustic soda and add to the container. Next, stirring to pour in ¾ cup oleic acid and an incomplete glass of turpentine. Begin reception of such baths follows with a small amount of the prepared emulsion: from 20 ml on the first day and up to 100 ml. The procedures are carried out once every three days in 40 ° C water, pre-lubricating the mucous bodies with petroleum jelly. After taking water procedures, the patient should be warmly wrapped.

Semi-prepared

Semi-vans are good for hardening and preventing the aggravation of the disease. The patient is thrown into the bathroom, filled with cold water for 20-30 cm. Duration of therapy from 30 seconds to two minutes. A similar effect has cold douche. The main rule - with strokes should be poured standing and in such a sequence: from the bottom upwards, then on the sides, from top to bottom. Then you can repeat it. It is important not to pour the chest. This can provoke a sharp increase in heart rate and blood pressure jumps. After the procedure, the body should be vigorously wiped.

As you can see, treatment of stroke by water procedures is very effective. And in the preventive maintenance of relapses it is necessary: ​​

• to carry out the doctor's instructions on a regular basis;
• engage in proper rehabilitation;
• walk more;
• take drugs that saturate brain tissue with oxygen;
• adhere to a special diet;
• do a simple charge, temper the body.

And most importantly - it's positive emotions and a spirit for recovery.