Nursing Care Plan for Lymphatic Filariasis / Elephantiasis
Hyperthermia related to inflammation of the lymph nodes
Expected outcomes:
The patient's body temperature within normal limits.
Interventions:
- Give compress on the area of the frontal and axial.
- Monitor vital signs, especially temperature.
- Monitor the temperature of the environment, and environmental modifications as needed, for example, providing a thin blanket.
- Encourage the client to drink plenty of water.
- Encourage the client to wear thin and absorbs sweat if high heat.
- Collaboration with the medical team in the delivery of therapeutic treatment (antipyretic).
- Affect temperature regulation center in the hypothalamus, reduces body heat which results in vasoconstriction of blood so that the output of heat by conduction.
- To determine the possibility of changing vital signs.
- Can assist in retaining / stabilizing the patient's body temperature.
- Expected body fluid balance can be met.
- With thin clothes and absorbs perspiration will reduce evaporation.
- It is expected to reduce the heat and reduce infection.
