The health-care of the baby; a handbook for mothers and nurses (1912) (14783354693)

Baby Enema

Identifier: healthcareofb00fisc (find matches)

Title: The health-care of the baby; a handbook for mothers and nurses

Year: 1912 (1910s)

Authors: Fischer, Louis, 1864- (from old catalog)

Subjects: Infants

Publisher: New York and London, Funk and Wagnalls company

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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led by pressing theempty part of the bag together, and the topscrewed on. The bag should then be heldupside down to see if the water drips. Drawover the bottle a flannel cover or sew the bottlein a square of flannel. An ice-bag should be half filled with crushedice, the air expelled and the top screwed on.If an intense cold is desired a little commonsalt may be added to the crushed ice. Alayer of moist cheese-cloth or cotton shouldbe laid between the bag and the skin, other-wise the extreme cold is painful. If the weightof the bag is uncomfortable to the patient,especially if applied to the head, then the bagmay be wrapped in cheese-cloth and pinnedto the pillow, so suspended as to barely allowit to touch the head. The bag must be re-filled before all the ice has melted. Cold compresses are made of three or fourthicknesses of linen wrung out of cold waterand applied where directed. Two com-presses should be used, one of which is kept inthe cold water while the other is on the patient.

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CORRECT POSITION OF A BABY ON THE NURSES LAP WHEN GIVINGAN INJECTION TO AID THE MOVEMENT OF THE BOWELS THE MEDICINE CHEST 141 To give a simple enema, ordinary suds are Enema. , . , ., , , (To wash made with castile or glycerin soap and warm out the & J r Bowels.) water, temperature ioo° F. A fountain syringeshould be used, to which an infants sizenozzle is attached. Fill the bag with theamount of suds ordered (usually one or twopints) and anoint the nozzle with vaselin.Open the spring clasp on the tube and allowthe air and a few ounces of water to escape.Gently insert the nozzle into babys rectumand allow the water to flow in a slow, steadystream, the bag being held about two feetover the babys body. A chamomile injection is made and given chamo- mile in the same manner as a simple enema, only irrigationchamomile tea, temperature ioo°, made bysteeping one tablespoonful of chamomileflowers in a quart of boiling water, is usedinstead of the soap suds. The baby should have his own

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