Soaking feet with hot water every night is something that many healthy people do every night. When soaking feet with hot water, the local temperature rises, which can clean sweaty feet covered with shoes, promote blood circulation, effectively relieve fatigue and help sleep. However, not everyone can soak their feet with hot water every day. For example, diabetic patients, patients with arterial embolism of lower limbs, patients with varicose veins of lower limbs, patients with dermatoses such as beriberi, children and patients with low blood pressure are not suitable for soaking feet with hot water every day.

Who is not suitable for soaking feet with hot water every day? First, the elderly and diabetics.

The elderly and diabetic patients (diabetic patients who have already developed peripheral neuropathy) have decreased their temperature perception ability and are insensitive to pain and temperature. Usually, very hot water can't make them feel hot, so they are easily burned. After scald, it is difficult to heal because the blood supply of the distal limb is not rich, which eventually leads to serious consequences.

Second, patients with arterial embolism of lower limbs

For various reasons, this kind of patients have blocked arteries in their lower limbs, their feet will be cold and numb, and they will be easily tired when walking. When walking for a short distance, you will limp because of ischemic pain (one foot deep and one foot shallow). This kind of patient can't soak his feet with hot water. The more painful the blisters, the more serious the symptoms.

Third, patients with dermatoses such as tinea pedis.

Soaking feet with hot water is easy to break skin, which may infect more germs, thus aggravating skin diseases. So soaking feet with hot water is not necessarily a good thing for people with beriberi. Hot water will accelerate blood circulation and promote the expansion of capillaries on the soles of feet, and once the skin breaks, more trouble will follow.

Fourth, children.

If the child's feet are not very cold, there is no need to soak them. The arch of human foot is gradually formed in childhood. At this time, if you often soak your feet with hot water, the ligaments on the soles of your feet may become slack, which is not conducive to the formation and maintenance of the arch. In the long run, it will increase the risk of forming flat feet.

Verb (abbreviation for verb) patients with hypotension

Soaking feet will make blood pressure rush to the lower limbs and epidermis quickly, which will easily aggravate the tendency of patients to have low blood pressure, cause insufficient blood supply to important organs such as the heart and brain, and cause dizziness, chest tightness and other symptoms.

In short, it is not recommended to soak your feet with hot water. Generally, the water temperature of about 50 degrees is the most reliable, and you can't soak your feet for too long. It is recommended to soak your feet 15 minutes each time. Although it is a trivial matter, it may cause harm to some special people, so even in some details, we should take it seriously.