Sitz Bath

How should it be used?

• Rinse the sitz bath basin to remove any soap or salt residue.
• Lift up the toilet seat and cover.
• Place the sitz bath basin over the toilet bowl, and fill it with approximately two-thirds of warm water, NOT hot water*.
• Add approximately 1 – 2 teaspoons of table salt (if required), and swirl the water till it dissolves.
• Carefully sit down in the plastic sitz bath and ensure that the solution covers the entire vaginal and/or rectal area.
• Soak for approximately 15 to 20 minutes.
• When finished, ​ rise slowly and pat dry with a towel.
• Empty the sitz bath basin, rinse well and allow it to dry.
  
  

*If you have been asked to use an irrigation bag:

• Close the valve before filling the irrigation bag with warm water (NOT hot water) or medicine prescribed by the doctor.
• Allow the fluid to run through the tubing to remove any air.
• Hang the bag on a hook, and connect the end of the tube to the sitz bath basin.
• Make sure the hole at the end of the tube is facing up.
• Lift up the toilet seat and cover.
• Place the sitz bath basin over the toilet bowl.
• Hang the irrigation bag up (at approximately shoulder level) and sit down in the plastic sitz bath.
• Open the valve and let the solution flow from the irrigation bag into the sitz bath basin, onto the affected area, until the content finishes.
  
  
• When finished, rise slowly and pat dry with a towel.
• Empty the sitz bath basin, rinse well and allow it to dry.​

Special instructions:

You may become dizzy when standing up after sitting in the sitz bat.

​Rise slowly and carefully.