How often do you take a bath in winter? Generally speaking, from a scientific point of view, young people generally only need 2 in winter. It takes about four days to take a bath, but for the elderly, it only takes four to five days. Because the weather is dry after winter, the oil on the skin is easy to itch if washed frequently, especially for the elderly. As the skin of the elderly shrinks, the secretion function of sebaceous glands deteriorates, and the barrier function of the skin surface decreases. In this case, if you don't pay more attention and let yourself take a bath often, it is easy to make your skin drier and itchy, and even skin diseases may occur.
This phenomenon is common among young people. Because I can't bear to take a bath every few days, I wash my skin frequently, which causes my skin to evaporate too quickly and become dry and itchy.
Therefore, there is no need to take a bath every day in winter. You can choose the right number of days according to your age. If you really can't stand too much, cover your whole body with lotion after taking a shower to avoid drying your skin because of rapid evaporation of water.
What are the precautions for bathing in winter? First, avoid locking doors and windows.
In winter, many people like to close the doors and windows when taking a bath, for fear of being invaded by the air and making themselves feel cold. However, it should be noted that if you take a bath with a gas water heater, this behavior can easily lead to carbon monoxide poisoning, so you should open the window properly to let carbon monoxide out and avoid poisoning.
Second, the bath time should not be too long.
In winter, because of the cold weather and warm hot water, people are reluctant to leave because of the warm hot water, but taking a bath for too long is easy to make their bodies tired, leading to the phenomenon of hypoxia and ischemia of the heart, especially for some middle-aged and elderly people, which is easy to induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, so we should try our best to control the bathing time.
Third, the water temperature should not be too high.
When taking a bath, too high water temperature will increase the burden on the heart, so we should pay attention to keeping the bath water at about 40 degrees Celsius, and change clothes in the bathroom in advance after taking a shower to avoid blood vessels contracting alternately.
Generally speaking, you don't need to take a bath every day in winter, so don't wash your skin frequently for your own habits, which will lead to problems such as too dry skin and itchy skin. And there are some precautions in taking a bath, so let yourself know to avoid accidents.