1. How long can I soak my feet after a meal?
It is generally recommended to soak your feet after meals 1 hour. Soaking feet after meals 1 hour will not have much effect on the digestion and absorption of food. If possible, it is best to soak your feet before going to bed.
2. Disadvantages of soaking feet immediately after meals
After eating, the stomach needs a lot of blood supply to digest and absorb normally. If you soak your feet immediately, the blood originally needed by the gastrointestinal department will flow to the lower limbs, which will easily affect the digestion and absorption function. Over time, it will lead to nutritional deficiency and even gastrointestinal diseases.
3. The benefits of soaking feet after meals
Soaking feet after meals or before going to bed 1 hour has many benefits for the body:
(1) dispelling cold and warming body
Feet are far from the heart, and it is easy to get cold hands and feet due to poor blood circulation. Soaking feet can make blood circulation faster, increase blood flow in feet, and help to effectively relieve cold feet and warm the body.
(2) promoting sleep
Soaking feet before going to bed can effectively relieve physical fatigue, relieve nervous tension, promote blood circulation and better improve sleep quality. Friends who have difficulty falling asleep can also fall asleep quickly by soaking their feet.
(3) Enhance resistance
If you soak your feet after breakfast, it will make people feel refreshed; Soaking feet after lunch can relieve fatigue in the morning and improve work efficiency in the afternoon; Soaking feet before going to bed at night can tonify the kidney. In a word, soaking feet after meals helps to regulate physical condition and improve resistance.
4. Precautions for soaking feet after meals
If you want to soak your feet after a meal, you should pay attention to controlling the water temperature at 40~50 degrees Celsius, and soak your feet for 20~30 minutes each time, which can better play a role in health preservation. In addition, when you soak your feet, you can massage your feet and promote blood circulation. In addition, it should be noted that people with infectious diseases, bleeding tendency, extreme fatigue, pregnant women and weak constitution should not soak their feet.
5. Possible hazards of hot water soaking feet
1, affecting blood flow
When the feet are soaked in hot water, the blood vessels around the legs and feet will expand and the blood flow of the skin of the feet will increase due to the increase of environmental temperature.
2, can't cure the disease
The local circulation caused by hot water soaking feet in a short time will hardly affect the whole body circulation, or even affect the core body temperature like bathing or showering. So for healthy people, soaking feet may not cause much physical changes, so it is useless to expect soaking feet to treat various diseases.
3, the sleep effect is average
For healthy people, low-temperature short-time foot bath is helpful to sleep, but it has little effect on the elderly and people with poor sleep. Soaking feet for a long time at high temperature will also increase the body temperature of the tip and core at the same time, which is not conducive to sleep.
4. Children will get flat feet.
The arch of the foot began to form in childhood. If the child is often soaked in hot water, it will have a certain impact on the function of nerves and blood vessels of the foot, especially if it is often soaked or scalded, the plantar ligament of the child will become slack, which is not conducive to the formation and maintenance of the arch of the foot. In the long run, it will increase the risk of forming flat feet.
5. Not everyone is suitable.
For people with basic vascular diseases, such as diabetes, varicose veins or thrombosis, tinea pedis and other skin diseases, there are still certain health risks. Soaking feet at high temperature for a long time will lead to insufficient effective circulating blood volume due to local vasodilation. Therefore, not everyone is suitable for soaking feet.
6, athlete's foot will be infected by bacteria.
After patients with dermatoses such as beriberi soak their feet in hot water, the affected area is not only more itchy, but also blisters may appear, which may also lead to secondary bacterial infection.
7. Diabetes can't promote blood circulation.
Diabetic foot is one of the most common complications of diabetic patients. Diabetes damages the vascular endothelium of the foot, and the blood vessels can no longer relax or contract due to temperature. Therefore, soaking feet with hot water can not help diabetic patients achieve the purpose of "promoting blood circulation".
8, varicose veins are more serious.
For patients with varicose veins, the increase of temperature will increase the local blood flow, thus increasing the burden of venous reflux.