Li Bo: Can babies soak their feet? What problems should I pay attention to when soaking my children's feet?

It's getting colder and colder. As the saying goes, "Cold begins with feet". Soaking feet with hot water is a good way for adults to keep healthy and relax. When the weather is cold, soaking feet with hot water before going to bed every night will really make people sleep warm and comfortable. Do you also want to soak your baby's feet to keep your baby warm? What problems should I pay attention to when soaking my baby's feet?

First, about soaking feet in hot water.

Foot bath is foot bath, which belongs to one of the contents of pedicure in traditional Chinese medicine and is also a commonly used external treatment. Soaking your feet with hot water can not only relieve fatigue, but also help you sleep. At the same time, adding traditional Chinese medicine to water can also play other roles.

Soaking feet with hot water can improve local blood circulation, dispel cold, promote metabolism, and finally achieve the purpose of health care. Soaking feet with proper Chinese medicine also has a certain effect on beriberi.

The history of foot bath is thousands of years, and the earliest literature record is "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription" in Jin Dynasty, which has a history of more than 1000 years.

Soaking feet is the key to health preservation, which can remove human blood waste and pathological deposits, clean the human body and resist various diseases. Soaking feet has a good auxiliary effect on the treatment of many diseases. People often say: "the rich take tonic, and the poor soak their feet." It can be seen that soaking feet plays a great role.

Second, what are the benefits of soaking feet?

Soaking feet with hot water can stimulate the penetration of foot acupoints and meridians, thus improving local blood circulation, expelling cold and promoting metabolism, thus playing a role in health care. It is a commonly used external treatment method in traditional Chinese medicine.

1, promoting blood circulation.

According to the theory of keeping in good health, the foot is farthest from the human heart and bears the heaviest burden. It has been said since ancient times that the second heart of the human body is also the most likely to cause poor blood circulation. It is recorded in medical classics that "a man with feet is still like a tree with roots, and the roots of the tree are exhausted first, and the old feet of the man are old first." For people with cold hands and feet, soaking feet is the best way to promote blood circulation.

2. Stimulate the acupoints, reflex zones and meridians of the foot.

Pressing the footsteps can also reflect whether there is something wrong with the corresponding liver. When doing pedicure, the masseur will feel pain and soreness when pressing our feet, but he will feel relaxed after pressing. There are six main meridians on the soles of the feet. Soaking feet can stimulate these six meridians and promote blood circulation.

3. Adjuvant treatment of diseases

As early as thousands of years ago, Chinese medicine attached great importance to the exercise and maintenance of the foot, and used foot massage (pedicure) to prevent and treat diseases. There is a folk saying that "the rich take tonic and the poor soak their feet", which shows the great role of soaking their feet. Modern people yearn for air-conditioned rooms and like to eat cold food, so some people will feel cold and wet in their bodies. Soaking their feet can accelerate the discharge of cold in their bodies.

4. Improve sleep and eliminate insomnia.

Insisting on soaking feet also has a good effect on improving sleep. Soaking feet with warm water can reduce lactic acid in the blood. Moreover, the foot is rich in nerve endings and capillaries. Soaking the foot with hot water has a mild and good stimulating effect on nerves and capillaries. This warm stimulation is reflected in the cerebral cortex, which plays an inhibitory role, thus improving sleep and eliminating insomnia. Soaking feet can increase the blood velocity and flow of feet, thus improving heart function, reducing heart load, promoting metabolism, and regulating meridians and qi and blood.

How old is the child suitable for soaking feet? When is the best time to soak your feet?

1, how old is the child suitable for soaking feet?

Under normal circumstances, healthy children before the age of 6 generally do not need to soak their feet deliberately, but can wash their feet often to keep their feet clean. If the physique is weak, children with cold physique (over 3 years old) can soak their feet in moderation.

2. The best time to soak your feet

The best time to soak your feet should be around 9 pm. At this time, soaking feet is the most tonifying kidney. Because at this time, the kidney meridian is weak in qi and blood, at this time, after soaking feet and increasing body heat, the blood vessels in the body will expand, which is conducive to promoting blood circulation, thus promoting blood circulation in the body. Soaking feet at night can also eliminate the nervous tension during the day, let the tired kidneys rest, and people will feel more comfortable.

Fourth, give the baby a foot injury ligament? Does the baby often soak his feet and become flat feet?

Not really!

Why shouldn't babies soak their feet? Many doctors and news reports explain that infants and young children are in the developmental stage, and the arch of the foot usually forms at the age of 4~6. If you often soak or burn your baby's feet with hot water, it will not only affect the nerves and blood vessels, but also relax the plantar ligament, which is not conducive to the normal development of the arch. If it goes on like this, it is easy to form flat feet.

At present, there is no relevant information to explain, and there is no exact theoretical basis and a large number of sample studies to prove that there is an inevitable connection between flat feet and soaking feet.

Flat feet, as the name suggests, have flat soles or inconspicuous arches. The soles of the newborn's feet are chubby, fleshy and flat at first, and the baby's feet are "flat feet" before the age of 3. These are normal physiological phenomena. What mom and dad have to do is to exercise the foot muscles, strengthen the arch of the foot, and control the baby's weight to avoid weight gain because the foot muscles can't support it.

1, on the formation of flat feet

Flat feet may be congenital or acquired. The arch of children's feet is often formed at the age of 4~6, and most children and adolescents are congenital flat feet.

The congenital causes of flatfoot mainly include congenital tarsal adhesion and congenital ligament relaxation, which are related to genetic factors and gender.

The acquired flat feet are influenced by many factors, such as obesity, lack of shoes and lack of exercise.

2. Why are newborns flat feet?

Because the arch of the newborn is not fully developed and the ligament can not effectively support the whole arch, the soles of the feet will become flat in the neonatal period. With the increase of age, the ligaments will tighten, the arch will form and the flat feet will disappear. After three years old, with the mechanical stimulation of lower limb walking and the growth of medial arch, the arch will gradually appear.

3. How to prevent flat feet?

First, don't train your baby to learn to walk too early.

Some parents see that other babies have learned to walk, and they are eager to train their babies to learn to walk. In the case that the arch is not well formed, it will be counterproductive for the baby to practice walking reluctantly, which will easily make the arch overweight and gradually lead to flat feet.

Second, parents should pay more attention to the baby's sitting/standing posture. If they find that the baby has bad sitting/standing posture such as X-leg, inner figure, kneeling posture and W-sitting posture, they should correct it in time.

Third, lack of exercise is also one of the factors of flat feet. Therefore, it is usually necessary to let the baby exercise more, let the child often do toe exercises, improve the strength of foot muscles and ligaments, and improve the development of arch.

Fourth, parents are advised to choose shoes that are light, comfortable and the right size for their babies. You can press the front of your shoes with your fingers to see if there is a certain gap between your toes and your shoes.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) matters needing attention for soaking feet for baby

1, the temperature should be appropriate, and the water temperature should not be too high.

Soaking feet is not the higher the water temperature, the better. Babies can't feel the same temperature as adults. Adults feel that the water temperature is a little hot, which is already very hot for children, and it is easy to burn the baby's delicate skin. In addition, soaking your baby's feet with too hot water is not good for your baby's foot development.

Therefore, it is best to soak your baby's feet with warm water all year round. The recommended temperature is 37 ~38, which is the most suitable water temperature.

2. The longer the soaking time, the better the effect?

Mom and dad should master the time, and the soaking time should not be too long. It usually takes about 5 minutes to soak under 3 years old. Soak 3-5 years old for 5- 10 minute; Over 5 years old, you can soak in 10- 15 minutes or so, or you can sweat a little on your child. Time is too long, one is that the water temperature is not easy to control, and the other is that it is easy to sweat too much and consume body fluids.

Soaking feet for a long time is easy to cause local blood circulation of feet to be too fast for a long time, thus causing cardiovascular overload. And in autumn and winter, if the skin is soaked in hot water for a long time, it is easy to cause the skin to become dry.

3. It is not advisable to soak your feet when you are full or hungry.

Because soaking feet will accelerate the blood circulation of the whole body, if it is too full, it will affect the digestion of the stomach, and if it is hungry, it will lead to dizziness and other symptoms.

4. When is foot bath effective?

You can go to bed by soaking your feet before going to bed. Lung governs fur, and children's physiological characteristics are lung qi deficiency, body relaxation, and poor control of opening and closing of body pores. After soaking the feet, the pores of the whole body are opened, and it is easy to be invaded by the cold again. Therefore, it is suggested to dry your feet as soon as possible after soaking, and then go to sleep, and stop going out to exercise, so that Yang Qi can converge in the body and achieve the effect of treatment and health care.

5. Do you want to add something to soak your feet?

In general, we can use warm water. If the child is cold and wet, we can occasionally add about 0/5g of Folium Artemisiae Argyi/kloc-to dispel cold and wet and dredge meridians.

If the child is in the early stage of a cold (runny nose, stuffy nose, sneezing, etc. ), perilla leaves 10 ~ 15g can be used to soak his feet. Some children with partial physique can be prescribed by doctors to soak their feet according to the doctor's advice.

6. Can I soak my child's feet with mugwort leaves?

Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the effect of warming meridians, dispelling cold and eliminating dampness. Children with cold constitution can get rid of the cold in their bodies by soaking their feet with mugwort leaves. After entering the spring, the humidity in the south gradually increases. "Wet" is the key to cause and aggravate diseases. Eliminating dampness and expelling cold will gradually improve children's physique.

Many colds are caused by cold in the body. Soaking feet with Folium Artemisiae Argyi can dispel cold on the one hand, and promote blood circulation on the other, so as to dredge channels and collaterals, relieve fatigue, reduce the chance of invasion of exogenous pathogens, and thus achieve the purpose of preventing colds.

7. Can I soak my child's feet every day?

You can soak for several days continuously when you are treating diseases, and daily health care once a week 1-2 times is enough. Children are pure yang, and their own yang is enough to grow and develop. For children, there is no need for too much external intervention, especially too much warm intervention, otherwise it may lead to excessive yang in children, or consume yin and body fluid, leading to yin deficiency. Therefore, when the illness requires it, you can soak your feet every day, but it should be noted that if the child is almost better, it is not suitable for soaking feet every day. If it's just normal health care, there's no need to soak your feet every day, just 1-2 times a week is enough.

8, foot bath bucket thoroughly clean.

If the bath tub is not thoroughly cleaned or the tub wall is not treated with anti-bacteria, the bacteria on the feet can easily remain in the tub wall, causing repeated infections of children's feet. Therefore, it is very important to choose a good foot bath bucket and clean it thoroughly.

9. Soak your feet with your parents.

It is difficult for a baby to sit for a long time when he is young, and he needs his parents to accompany him. At the same time, you can pay attention to the water temperature in time. If you start to fall, you can stop soaking your feet and dry your baby as soon as possible.