Steaming Washrag

Pam, a thick hand towel or kitchen towel dampened and put in the microwave for a few seconds works well on the neck and shoulders. After you have heated it roll the towel and place it around your neck. You can nuke the towel as often as needed, moist heat is much better than dry heat. I have cooked many meals doing this,lol Hugs Susie

Pamela,
I think you misunderstood what I was trying to describe. What I use isn't wet at all. It's more like a cloth or sock-like material filled with grains of some sort (someone here mentioned trying to make one with rice, but I bought mine) and you microwave it and it's DRY and you can wrap it around your neck and walk around with it. It's not flat like a heating pad.

i know I'm doing a lousy job of describing it. Maybe someone else knows what I mean and can describe it better!

Whatever is inside is something that can be heated and it made for this purpose, so I wouldn't put just anything in a sock. But it has the feel of a bean bag with very small grained or something in it. I think they might be some kind of clay material. Wish I could do better at describing!

PaLady

What PALady is describing is rice in material. Sometimes they add Flax seed as well. It is a wonderful thing that I found when my MIL got me a store bought one and I ripped it was wondered where all the rice came from!!!

I sent you a link through e-mail to a great product if you don't want to add rice to a sock (weird but it does work )

It is made for womens problems but, due to its shape and make, is great for back pain.

 

Take care,

Sarrah

Pamela,
I think ekkorose and b4u are describing something along the lines of what I have. The nice thing about the one I have is that it has these rope like handles of sort at each end (I am SOO bad at description!! LOL) and you can hook them together after you wrap the "tube sock" part around your neck.

Now I've probaby thoroughly confused you! I wish I could remember where I got it, but I've had it a lot of years.

PaLady

Pamela,

You can also find them in a lot of magazines that sell little gift type things, and I'm sure they have them online too. They are really good for relaxing. I used to have one shaped like a cat! I eventually had to stop using it though because my dogs always wanted to play with it because it looked like one of their toys (it looked like a stuffed animal, just in the shape of a U and filled with beans)! You can even get scented ones (I think the one that I had had chamomile in it) that can help you relax even more.

Careful with the wash-cloth, it gets really hot really fast in the microwave & it is easy to burn yourself! And I do agree that the cloths cool off too quickly -- the rice/bean bag packs are much better at retaining heat.

Skeye

The infusion center would use the homemade ones made out of sock filled with rice. It helps to find a vein. It smelled kinda nice when they nuked them too...

Also for the moist towels(I use dishcloths), make sure you wring out all the water. Nuke for no more than 30 seconds...then re-nuke for 10 seconds thereafter...