Can help improve physical fitness. As the saying goes, cold starts from the feet, and the whole body will follow cold. Soaking your feet with hot water can dispel the cold, keep your feet warm, and make your whole body warm, which is helpful to improve your cold constitution.
It is also beneficial to lose weight, accelerate blood circulation and metabolism, thus promoting the consumption of excess fat and calories and helping to reduce fat to some extent.
Soaking feet is also a good way to relieve stress, especially before going to bed, which helps to relax the nerves in the brain, release the pressure at the end of the day, relax the body and mind, naturally make it easier to fall asleep and effectively improve the quality of sleep.
It can also protect feet and prevent diseases. Although our feet are wrapped in shoes most of the time, we have to walk every day. Now it's summer, so it's easier to sweat, and your feet are prone to bacteria. Soaking your feet every day can protect your feet.
But these benefits brought by soaking feet can only be obtained on the premise of soaking right. Some people are not suitable for soaking their feet, or they have not avoided misunderstandings. Soaking their feet every day may bring hidden dangers to their health. So, who is equivalent to soaking feet for illness? What should I pay attention to when soaking my feet? Know clearly before soaking.
People with high blood sugar are not suitable for soaking feet. Because hyperglycemia affects normal blood circulation, it is easy to cause pathological changes of peripheral nerves, and it is difficult for nerve endings to perceive temperature changes. Such people soak their feet with hot water, which is easy to burn their feet and even bring some concurrent problems. If you like to soak your feet, it is recommended that your family try the water temperature first to prevent burns.
People with bad hearts are not suitable. Soaking feet will cause blood vessels to dilate, blood flow will increase, upward blood flow will easily decrease, and blood supply to the heart and brain may be insufficient.
People with varicose veins of lower limbs are also not suitable. Soaking feet with hot water will increase the temperature of feet and accelerate blood circulation, but it will not change the speed of venous reflux, but it will easily increase the burden of reflux. The lower limbs are prone to congestion, and the more feet are soaked, the more swollen the feet may be.
People with foot moss should not soak. If you soak your feet with hot water, it is easy to cause secondary bacterial infection. If the skin of the foot is damaged, soaking the foot is easy to cause wound infection.
Others should also pay attention to the correct way to soak their feet. Generally speaking, it is more appropriate to control the temperature of soaking feet at about 40 degrees. It is not good to be too hot or too cold, and the time of soaking feet is not as long as possible. It is recommended to control it at 10-30 minutes until the body sweats slightly.
Many people just soak their feet in plastic pots, only their feet are in the water. You might as well choose a deeper barrel.
I suggest you soak your feet at 9 pm, and don't soak too late, otherwise it may affect your sleep quality.
Generally speaking, the body may get the above benefits by soaking feet frequently, but it is aimed at the right person, and on the premise of soaking feet correctly, it may bring a series of health hazards if misunderstandings are not avoided.