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Nowadays, saunas are very common in cities in China. In crowded sauna places, people often see such advertisements: sauna can activate menstruation, eliminate toxins in the body, lose weight and keep fit, cure all diseases, be suitable for all ages and so on. Does the sauna really have such an effect?
Not really. According to medical experts, sauna has a certain effect on relieving fatigue and keeping healthy, but the amount of garbage and toxins discharged from the body through sweating is very limited. Not suitable for one of the following situations.
When patients with heart disease take a sauna, their blood circulation intensifies because of their great physical exertion, which increases the load on the heart and easily leads to insufficient blood supply and heart failure.
Patients with cerebral thrombosis or hypertension will accelerate the blood flow in the human body due to strong external thermal stimulation, and the pressure of blood on blood vessels will suddenly increase. When blood flows through some local lesions, it is easy to cause blood vessel rupture and accidents.
Epilepsy patients are usually related to brain hypoxia or some operating mechanism disorder in the body. When taking a sauna, a large amount of water vapor is inhaled into the body, which reduces the oxygen content in the body, increases the sweat discharged from the body, and disrupts the electrolyte balance, which is easy to induce seizures.
When pregnant women take a sauna, due to a lot of perspiration, the microcirculation in the body is accelerated, the burden on the heart is aggravated, and there will be insufficient blood supply to the brain and fainting, so special attention should be paid to elderly pregnant women.
After heavy drinking, alcoholics will obviously reduce the dominant function of the cranial nerve system. At this time, if you take a bath immediately, under the action of alcohol, it will not only form a larger amount of perspiration, but also cause nervous system disorder and adverse consequences.
The elderly who are weak, frail and sick, people who have recovered from a serious illness, and children should not take a sauna.
Pay attention to the following items when washing sauna: ① Don't take a bath on an empty stomach to avoid hypoglycemia and syncope; (2) Don't stay in the sauna for too long. Generally, it is better to stay in 10 minutes at a time. 3 It is best to drink some drinks containing sodium and potassium ions or sugary brackish water before and after bathing to supplement the excessive water, salt and energy consumed by the body and maintain the electrolyte balance of the body, which is more conducive to the fitness effect of bathing; (4) Get up after taking a bath, especially for the elderly, and then get up slowly after a proper rest; ⑤ If patients with heart disease want to take a bath, it is best to soak the lower part of the chest in hot water at about 40℃ for 20 minutes to promote the dilation of capillaries, which can increase the blood supply to the heart and prevent vascular accidents due to insufficient blood supply; ⑥ It's best for the frail old people to be accompanied when taking a bath, so that they can be treated after the accident.
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