In winter, people prefer to soak their feet for health. On the one hand, they warm their feet, on the other hand, they promote blood circulation. However, what needs to be reminded here is that foot bathing is also exquisite. If you are wrong, not only can you not keep in good health, but you may hurt your health.
Soaking feet has many advantages, but these five points will hurt your health. I'll teach you the correct way to soak your feet. The water temperature of soaking feet should not be too high.
Some people think that the water temperature is higher when soaking feet, and sweating more is good for the soaked body. So even if you feel hot, you should stick to it until your feet are red. In fact, our skin is very delicate. It doesn't mean that only 100 degree boiling water can burn our skin. It only takes one minute to burn our skin with 70-degree hot water, and our feet will burn with 60-degree hot water for five minutes.
So the temperature of soaking feet should be between 40 and 50 degrees. If the water temperature is too high, it is easy to burn, and it will also lead to the rapid expansion of blood vessels in the feet, and blood will suddenly flood into the feet, causing ischemia in other parts, thus causing dizziness.
2, foot bath time should not be too long.
Some people like to play mobile phones and watch TV while soaking their feet, regardless of time. The longer you soak, the more comfortable you are, and even your feet become white and red. However, the longer you soak your feet, the better. Soaking feet for too long will lead to excessive blood in the feet, causing ischemia in other places and easy dizziness and brain swelling.
But also easy to destroy the sebum membrane of the foot and make the stratum corneum dry and chapped. So as long as you soak your feet for 20 to 25 minutes and make your back sweat slightly, the longest time should not exceed 30 minutes.
It is not advisable to soak your feet immediately after a meal.
Some people just want to soak their feet and relax after dinner. As we all know, soaking feet immediately after a meal will make the blood that should flow to the stomach to help digestion flow into the lower body, affect the digestion of the gastrointestinal tract, and may induce stomach problems after a long time.
4. Don't blindly soak your feet with traditional Chinese medicine.
Because adding some traditional Chinese medicine to foot bath water can play a role in physical therapy, some people directly read the prescription introduced by the media, regardless of their own physique, and directly take medicine to soak their feet. Improper medication can be counterproductive. For example, some traditional Chinese medicines will increase women's menstrual flow and aggravate dysmenorrhea. Therefore, you must consult a professional when soaking your feet with Chinese medicine.
5, soaking feet taboo People should not soak their feet casually.
People with diabetic foot should be careful to soak their feet. People with diabetic foot are not sensitive to water temperature and pain. If the water temperature is too high, they will not realize that they have burned themselves. Moreover, diabetic wounds are not easy to heal, and even face the serious consequences of cutting feet because of high temperature burns.
People with heart disease should not soak their feet. After soaking feet, there will be a lot of blood flowing into the lower body, which will easily lead to myocardial ischemia, lead to cardiac hypoxia and induce the onset of diseases.
Patients with hypertension should not soak their feet. Soaking feet can easily lead to an increase in blood pressure, which is not conducive to the stability of the disease.
Children should not soak their feet. Children are in the period of growth and development. Frequent foot soaking will relax the plantar ligament, affect the normal development of the arch, and lead to flat feet.
Patients with beriberi should not soak their feet. Because warm and wet feet are the favorite soil for fungi to soak their feet, soaking their feet may aggravate beriberi.