Taking a bath with cold water for a long time will affect your skin health. This is because cold water will shrink the pores of the skin and reduce the ability of skin to sweat and metabolize. In this way, dirt, grease and bacteria in the skin are difficult to excrete, leading to skin problems, such as itching, chapping, sensitivity and eczema. Bathing in a cold environment is also easy to cause infection.
Drinking cold water is also harmful to your health. The human body needs to maintain a constant temperature to function normally. Drinking too much cold water will reduce the temperature of the gastrointestinal tract, thus affecting the digestive function and causing discomfort such as stomach pain and diarrhea. Due to slow blood circulation, cold water may also cause joint pain and cold asthma.
Since it is impossible to avoid the harm of cold water to the body, how can we alleviate it? We can relieve discomfort by hot compress. After bathing, you can soak your feet in warm water or apply hot compress to keep your body warm and relaxed. Drinking cold drinks can also be heated, such as adding some ginger juice or putting it in a thermos cup.
In addition, you can improve your body's resistance by strengthening exercise and increasing clothes. Proper exercise can promote metabolism and blood circulation and reduce the body's sensitivity to cold; Wearing enough clothes can also keep the body temperature stable and reduce the influence of cold environment.
Long-term use of cold water will do harm to your health, so try to avoid this situation. If it is unavoidable, it is necessary to strengthen self-protection measures to make the body adapt to the low temperature environment as much as possible. We should take some measures to relieve discomfort in time. Remind everyone that keeping warm and healthy comes first.