Household medicated-bath treatment device

A medicine-bath treatment device comprising, in combination:

• a plastic housing forming a central basin having a seat thereabout;
• wherein the central basin has at least one fumigation opening at a bottom of the central basin and at least one air opening at an upper rear edge of the central basin;
• a metal inner vessel for holding treatment liquid below the central basin and having an upper opening in fluid communication with the at least one fumigation opening of the central basin to provide fumigation steam to the central basin from the inner vessel;
• a spray tube having an inlet in communication with the inner vessel;
• wherein the spray upwardly extends through the upper opening of the inner vessel so that an outlet of the spray tube provides a jet of heated treatment liquid from the inner vessel within the central basin;
• a pump having an inlet in fluid communication with the inner vessel and an outlet in fluid communication with the spray tube;
• a fan having an outlet in communication with the at least one air opening to provide a stream of heated drying air within the central basin;
• a heater configured to selectively heat the treatment fluid within the inner vessel;
• a temperature sensor for measuring ambient air temperature;
• a controller operably connected to the pump, the fan, and the heater;
• and
• wherein the controller is operably programmed to provide predetermined treatment temperatures for the jet of heated treatment liquid, the fumigation steam, and the heated drying air and to automatically adjust at least one of the predetermined treatment temperatures for the jet of heated treatment liquid, the fumigation steam, and the heated drying air based on the ambient air temperature by adjusting the at least one of the predetermined treatment temperatures in an upward direction a predetermined amount when the ambient air temperature is above a predetermined normal ambient temperature and by adjusting the at least one of the predetermined treatment temperatures in a downward direction a predetermined amount when the ambient air temperature is below the predetermined normal ambient temperature.

A method of treatment comprising the steps of, in combination:

• providing a jet of heated treatment liquid in a central basin having a seat thereabout to contact a patient sitting on the seat;
• providing fumigation steam in the central basin to contact the patient sitting on the seat;
• providing a stream of heated drying air in the central basin to contact the patient sitting on the seat;
• determining an ambient air temperature;
• and
• automatically adjusting with a controller at least one of a predetermined treatment temperatures for the jet of heated treatment liquid, the fumigation steam, and the heated drying air based on the ambient air temperature by adjusting the at least one of the predetermined treatment temperatures in an upward direction a predetermined amount when the ambient air temperature is above a predetermined normal ambient temperature and by adjusting the at least one of the predetermined treatment temperatures in a downward direction a predetermined amount when the ambient air temperature is below the predetermined normal ambient temperature.