High Tech treatments

A brave volunteer demonstrating
a warm moist pack to treat
dry eyes.

No she's not crying!  Instead she'd demonstrating one of the new "nshima water" treatments discussed during the recent training at Chipulukusu.  We called it "nshima water" treatments because we could conserve on time, cost, and work-load by capitalizing on the water heated over the little charcoal fires that were prepared to cook the maize (cornmeal) nshima.  In actuality only the water was used -- no nshima was added😊

The 5 treatments demonstrated included:

1.  Warm moist packs for stinging or dry eyes.
2.  Warm soaks for infected fingers or hands that could be submerged.
3.  Hot moist packs (covered with plastic and a towel) to treat large infected wounds or sore muscles.
4.  Steam from the hot water to treat respiratory congestion 
5.  Warm water to prepare a salt gargle for sore throats.

They loved this lesson which was practical, easy to demonstrate, and applicable to problems commonly encountered.