Hot water foot bath therapy in reducing body temperature

Fever has been recognized as a symptom and not a disease. The marvelous effect of hot water foot bath therapy is to reduce fever. A pre experimental one group pretest and post test design was adopted using purposive sampling technique among 30 fever patients attending Sree Mookambika Medical College Hospital Kulasekharam. The results showed that the posttest mean score was 1.8 and SD was 0.81 compared to the pretest mean score of level of body temperatue was 1.8 and SD was 0.77. The paired t value was 20.73, significant at p<0.05. It can be inferred that Hot water foot bath therapy was effective in reducing body temperature among patients with fever.