For example, soak feet with white vinegar water, sterilize and deodorize, and treat foot odor; Soaking feet with Jiang Shui can cure spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, warm spleen and stomach, and eliminate dampness; Hand over Chinese medicine yourself or soak your feet while massaging.
Therefore, in the eyes of most people, soaking feet is very good for people's health. But is it suitable for everyone to soak their feet? Actually, it's not. For example, these four kinds of people, soaking their feet is very harmful to their health. Next, let's take a look with the doctor.
1. Benefits of soaking feet:
(1) For most adults, the pressure of life often makes us breathless, and it is undoubtedly a pleasure to go home and soak in warm water after a busy day's work. By soaking feet, we can not only relieve fatigue and promote blood circulation, but also let us calm down and fall asleep better; At the same time, it can also regulate the efficacy of our internal organs and enhance our immunity.
(2) As the saying goes, cold begins with the feet. Soaking feet in warm water belongs to foot massage and is one of the ways of pedicure in traditional Chinese medicine. When the weather is cold in winter, our feet are usually the first to feel the coolness. Through the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction, the blood vessels in our feet are easy to freeze, which is not conducive to the blood circulation of the body. Soaking feet with warm water has largely driven away the cold and promoted the most basic metabolism of the body, thus playing a role in health care and promoting the normal operation of the body.
(3) Soaking your feet every night makes it easier to remove the odor on your feet. After a bumpy day, my imprisoned feet were liberated and escaped from the sultry shoes. Not only eliminates the peculiar smell, solves the problem of foot odor, but also keeps it clean and tidy; It can also moisturize skin, soften cutin, and make foot skin smooth, elastic, bright and shiny.
2. The disadvantages of soaking feet:
(1) Generally speaking, the water temperature for soaking feet is around 37.40, and the time is 15.30 minutes.
The temperature should not be too high, and the water temperature is too high, which will not only easily lead to skin burns, but also accelerate the blood flow on the soles of the feet, resulting in the loss of sweat and electrolytes.
At the same time, the temperature should not be too low, too low will increase the infection rate of colds and cause harm to the body.
Soaking feet should not be too long, which is easy to cause skin wrinkles and damage the development of skin texture.
(2) But there are exceptions to everything. Soaking feet is beneficial, but it doesn't mean it is beneficial to everyone.
For people with basic cardiovascular diseases, such as diabetes, varicose veins or thrombosis, tinea pedis and other skin diseases, foot soaking even has certain health risks. Soaking feet for too long at too high a temperature will cause blood vessels in the feet to dilate, resulting in insufficient blood circulation ability of the whole body, which is easy to cause harm to people.
From this perspective, soaking feet is also divided into people.
Next, let's focus on which four types of people need to be extra cautious when soaking their feet.
(1) Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases have great pressure on their own hearts and blood vessels. When we soak our feet with hot water, the water temperature rises, and under the extrusion of high temperature, the blood flows and boils faster and faster, which is easy to cause the overload of our body blood, thus aggravating the illness and affecting life and health.
Therefore, patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases must pay attention to the temperature when soaking their feet, and always pay attention to keeping flat.
Moreover, it is also possible to take a dip every day, which can also relieve the meridians and relieve fatigue.
(2) Diabetic patients
Diabetic patients, it is best not to soak their feet. Most diabetic patients suffer from diabetic foot because of long-term foot soaking. Soaking feet for a long time is easy to cause ulceration of sole skin, so that bacteria will invade the ulcerated skin and cause infection. In addition, we must control the water temperature. If the temperature is too high, it will easily lead to skin burns, which is very unfavorable to diabetic patients.
Therefore, the correct way for diabetic patients to soak their feet should be to soak their feet with warm water every day, not exceeding 37℃, and the soaking time should not be too long, just a few minutes.
(3) Patients with dermatoses such as tinea pedis.
Pedicularis is a common skin disease, usually caused by fungal infection. Patients with beriberi often feel itchy skin on their feet, which often makes people collapse and helpless. At this time, most people will choose to soak their feet to relieve this discomfort. Can people with beriberi soak their feet?
So first of all, we should know that beriberi is divided into three types: blister beriberi, immersion beriberi and keratotic beriberi. If it is erosive tinea pedis, we generally don't recommend soaking feet, because soaking feet can easily aggravate other bad symptoms such as foot pain and itchy feet, leading to skin infection, but if it is other types of tinea pedis, soaking feet is no problem.
Patients with tinea pedis should pay more attention to washing their feet every day, and make diagnosis and treatment through proper cleaning, timely application of drugs or oral fungal drugs. At the same time, they should pay attention to taboos in diet and prohibit spicy and irritating food.
(4) Children
Because children are young, they are more sensitive to things than adults. When adults think the water temperature is suitable, children may be higher. In addition, children are not good at expression and may burn their feet. Therefore, the water temperature for soaking children's feet should be mild. In addition, children are in a critical period of physical development, and often soaking their feet is easy to cause flat feet, which is not conducive to children's physical development.
Therefore, when children soak their feet, the time for soaking their feet should not be too long, just twice a week, and the water temperature should not be too high. Proper foot soaking can accelerate blood circulation and enhance children's physical resistance.
(1) First of all, the most important thing is to pay attention to the temperature and time of foot bath and choose the degree that is most suitable for different people.
(2) Secondly, pay attention to the changes of the surrounding weather and environment when soaking feet. For example, don't soak your feet at the tuyere, so as not to cause harm to your body due to a cold; Don't soak your feet on an empty stomach or after meals, which will easily consume calories or hinder the digestion and absorption of food in your body.
(3) Finally, don't blindly believe some folk remedies when soaking feet, but pay attention to science. You can choose a professional doctor to pay attention to the inquiry when appropriate. Don't lose more because of small things.
Generally speaking, soaking feet has both advantages and disadvantages for us. Therefore, we should take the correct and appropriate way to relax our feet, accelerate blood circulation, eliminate fatigue, enhance our body resistance, and soak our feet in time.