Foot bath water temperature should not be overheated, generally 38-45 degrees Celsius is appropriate. Especially for diabetics, we must pay close attention to the water temperature. In diabetic patients, if blood sugar is not well controlled, nerve endings will be damaged, and the symptoms are limb dysfunction. Pain nerves will be delayed, and the feeling of temperature will be slower. Therefore, even if the water is very hot, diabetics can't detect it, causing burns. Diabetic patients are easy to infect wounds after scalding, and their wound healing ability is also poor, which is easy to form long-term unhealed ulcers. Therefore, if diabetic patients are scalded carelessly, it is difficult to recover and may even cause serious consequences.
The foot soaking time should not be too long, and about 20 minutes is the most suitable. If the time is too short, it will not play a role in soaking feet. However, if the time is too long, it will cause insufficient blood supply to the brain circulation and cause dizziness and other discomfort. It should be noted that if you are already sweating when soaking your feet, you don't have to wait for 20 minutes to stop soaking your feet.
Patients with varicose veins and arterial embolism of lower limbs should not soak their feet. You may not be familiar with this disease, because thrombosis blocks the arteries of the lower limbs, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the arteries of the lower limbs. It is characterized by cold feet and pain in lower limbs. You will limp if you walk for a while. Sometimes, these patients feel that their feet are cold, and they want to warm their feet by soaking their feet. But the feet will increase the oxygen consumption of the lower limbs, and the blood supply itself will be insufficient. At this time, the symptoms of pain and hypoxia will be more obvious.