Provides guidelines for bathing persons with dementia and procedures for dealing with specific bathing problems in long-term care settings. Addresses ways to maintain quality of bathing procedures, and includes case exercises to be used for training. Designed to help long-term care staff individualize the bathing approach, focus on the person, enlist cooperation, give the person choices, and us...

The composition of the solution bathing one border of the isolated frog skin affects the response of the potential across the skin to changes in the composition of the solution bathing the opposite border. Increasing the K concentration of the inside (corium) bathing solution decreased the sensitivity of the potential to a change in outside Na concentration. Decreasing the outside Na concentrat...

:  Anthrax in herbivorous wildlife and livestock is generally assumed to be transmitted via ingestion or inhalation of Bacillus anthracis spores. Although recent studies have highlighted the importance of the ingestion route for anthrax transmission, little is known about the inhalational route in natural systems. Dust bathing could aerosolize soilborne pathogens such as B. anthracis, exposing ...

OBJECTIVE To compare selected effects of tub bathing versus traditional sponge bathing in healthy, term newborns and their mothers' ratings of pleasure and confidence with the bath. DESIGN Randomized controlled study. SETTING The maternity unit of an eastern Canadian hospital. PARTICIPANTS One hundred two mother-baby pairs were randomly assigned to an experimental tub bath or a sponge bat...

BACKGROUND The influence of bathing in asthma patients is not yet fully known. OBJECTIVE We conducted an observational study to investigate changes in symptoms and their degree by bathing in asthmatic patients. METHODS A questionnaire focusing on ever experienced bathing-induced symptom changes and their degree, as well as contributing factors, was designed and administered to asthmatic pat...