In addition, patients with the following three diseases should be cautious when soaking their feet.
1 venous thrombosis
For patients with venous diseases with poor reflux or obstruction, soaking feet with hot water will aggravate blood stasis.
2 Lower extremity arterial occlusion
Although the manifestation of arterial occlusion of lower limbs is ischemia of lower limbs, hot water soaking feet can not dilate occluded blood vessels, and medical research shows that the increase of environmental temperature can increase the oxygen consumption of tissues and aggravate ischemia.
3 diabetic patients
Diabetic patients are often numb to pain and water temperature. If the water temperature is too high to be noticed, it may burn the skin, lead to diabetic foot, and even lead to amputation in severe cases! Such news is not uncommon.
Five types of people should not soak their feet.
1 people with yin deficiency constitution
Some people with yin deficiency constitution (often manifested as fever in hands and feet, upset and irritable, dry mouth, night sweats, dry skin, etc.). ) Soaking your feet may make you sweat and dizzy. Moreover, soaking feet will promote yang, while people with yin deficiency constitution are hotter, and soaking feet will aggravate yin deficiency and increase virtual fire. Don't soak your feet.
2 people with weak constitution
People who are weak are prone to collapse when they soak their feet or sweat. Soaking feet for too long may cause hypotension, and when it is serious, it will faint.
3. People with acute diseases
Have symptoms such as headache, dizziness, asthma and cough. Patients with frequent coronary heart disease and unstable blood pressure had better not soak their feet.
Four pregnant women
Because pregnant women don't walk very often now, some uncertain factors that may appear after soaking their feet may move tire air, so it is recommended that pregnant women don't soak their feet.
5 patients with hypotension
Soaking feet can promote blood circulation and dilate blood vessels, thus lowering blood pressure.
How to soak feet in winter is better?
You might as well soak your feet in a barrel.
Because wood is not easy to react with water and traditional Chinese medicine (Chinese medicine foot bath health care), and pots made of plastic or metal may react chemically, which will have an impact on water quality. It will be better to preserve traditional Chinese medicine in wooden barrels.
Don't wait for the boiled water to cool naturally.
The water temperature is controlled at about 38℃-43℃, and the time is generally about 15-30 minutes. The water is above the ankle and below the knee. The use of "natural cooling with boiling water" is to prevent bacterial infection, and it is completely unnecessary for ordinary people to soak their feet.
You don't need to sweat to be effective.
After soaking your feet, your legs can feel relaxed and you don't have to sweat. Only people with colds need to sweat, normal people don't need it, and sweating in autumn and winter or in air-conditioned rooms is also very easy to catch a cold.
In addition, you should not soak your feet within half an hour after a meal, otherwise it will affect the digestive function of your stomach, and you should not soak your feet if you are too hungry. It is best to soak your feet before going to bed, and the effect will be better.