Warm baths
Taking a warm bath can help with aches - but don't overheat! Limit your stay in a tub over 100 degrees F, and don't let your body temperature get above 102 degrees F.
Dr. Jeff Livingston reviewed this
24 year experience in Obstetrics and Gynecology
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A 26-year old male asked:
I think I have a hemroid. It hurts a lot. I have tried warm baths, Preperation H (balm) and pain tablets. What else can I do?
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A 30-year old female asked:
How do warm baths help Bartholin's cysts? Does it have to be salt water? Can warm towels be equally effective?
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A 21-year old female asked:
My one year old has a hard time sleeping through the night we tried lavender warm baths nothing helps?
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A 33-year old asked:
Which is better for sore legs, icing or warm baths?
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A 48-year old asked:
How to get rid of a Bartholin's gland cyst without going to the doctor? Warm baths?
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A 55-year old male asked:
Can small anal fissure heals on its own with high fiber diet, lot of water, and warm baths with no topical or gel medicine.
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A 20-year old female asked:
I'm sick of not being able to sleep due to restless leg syndrome please help what can I do? The bar of soap and warm baths nor stretching helps.
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A 17-year old female asked:
What foods or anything can I take or do to jumpstart my period? I've heard of vitamin C and warm baths?
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A 28-year old male asked:
Is it normal for your scrotum to swell after masturbation? I hang low and after ejaculation my scrotum tends to stay swollen for a long time. Usually have to do warm sit baths to loosen it?
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A 67-year old female asked:
I have a bleeding hemorrhoid and was told to take warm sitz baths three times a day. If the hemorrhoid (where it is bleeding from) scabs up, will the warm sitz baths make the scab come off? How can it heal using warm water? Using witch hazel too?
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A 35-year old female asked:
11 mo son has hand foot mouth disease. Doc said it's a bad version. He has horrible blisters/rash even on his bottom. Are warm water baths ok? I read about oatmeal baths. Good idea?
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A 22-year old female asked:
What is best to reduce a high fever, warm or cold baths?
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A 28-year old female asked:
My son has a boil. We have been doing epsom salt baths, warm compresses, and antibiotic ointment. He has had it 3-4 days. What else needs to be done.?
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A 25-year old female asked:
Keep vomiting after a nice warm bath?
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A 25-year old male asked:
Is warm or lukewarm water in taking a bath bad for the hair?
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A 26-year old male asked:
Is it true that sitting in warm water "bath" once a day helps to minimize a enlarged prostate?
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A 19-year old male asked:
I do Clean my pennis head daily with only warm water during bath. Is it enough to make my pennis clean and healthy?
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A 33-year old male asked:
Are there any side effects of taking a warm bath immediately after a chemotherapy patient takes one? Any danger of absorbing the chemo?
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A female asked:
My little one has fever because she keeps complaining of being cold. I gave neurofen 5ml, took a luke warm bath and still complaint of being cold?
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A 29-year old female asked:
I'm having a bath in tub for fissure. Should I use epsom salts in the tub like i've heard. If so how much salts do I put in the bathtub warm or cold?
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A 30-year old male asked:
I take a warm bath daily. Does this effect the quality of my sperm? And if yes, how long does it take them to recover? I have sperm test in 5 days thx
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A 28-year old male asked:
I always feel itchy after I take a bath. It doesnt matter whether the water is cold or warm. When I was younger, I used to think I was allergic to water?
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A 23-year old female asked:
At 10 days pp w/ C-section can you take a warm tub bath?
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A 54-year old female asked:
My legs get so cold that I can't stand it. The only way to warm them is a very hot bath. What causes this.
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A 33-year old female asked:
How to clean smegma on my child (7yr) penis. We tried warm bath, retracted the foreskin..But he has lt of pain. ?
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A 31-year old female asked:
My upper back hurts and also under my chest all around .This morning try to take at warm bath it hurted . Then my husband try to rub it and i sream ?
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A 68-year old female asked:
I am using a special cream prescribed by a colon rectal dr for an annal fissure. Should I do a warm sitz bath too?
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A 24-year old female asked:
Had a big bump above my clitoris not painful or itchy, during a warm bath it popped with pus and blood, what is it?
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A 21-year old male asked:
After i used to warm sitz bath i feel dizzy and headache. Why i feel this? Is this bad? What should i do to not feel it again?
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A 29-year old male asked:
Our son is almost 16 months old and today has had a fever his current temperature is 38 and we are not sure what to do. We have given him Calpol and tried to bath in luke warm water. Please help?
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