The winter solstice is approaching, and the coldest time of the year is coming. In cold days, people will always pay attention to some more practical and beneficial to the body and mind, and the best and smallest health care methods, and foot soaking is a good example. However, the seemingly simple foot soaking, if the method is wrong, will have an adverse effect on health, scientific methods to assist some tips, in order to soak more healthily.
Soak your feet in hot water only up to your ankles
Throw the medicine bag into the water and start soaking directly
Don't set the time to soak for too long......
Foot soaking is indeed the lowest cost and convenient way to maintain health, but soaking feet in the above way not only has no effect, but also affects health in the long run.
The doctor of Shanghai No. 3 **Hospital reminded: "First of all, you must use warm water of about 40 degrees for foot soaking, and secondly, the height of the water should not exceed the calf." If you soak your feet in a medicine bag, you should first put the medicine bag in water and boil for 15 minutes before soaking in medicated water, and the best time to soak your feet is not more than 30 minutes. During this period, you also need to move your toes, rub your feet together, and finally take advantage of the hot feet to perform a simple massage after soaking your feet. Pay attention to these points, and soaking your feet will make your body look greater."
Although foot soaking is simple and effective,
But there are also contraindications for some people
The five major precautions listed by doctors should not be overlooked:
1.If you suffer from athlete's foot, doctors do not recommend foot soaking, because athlete's foot is a fungal infection, and frequent foot soaking keeps your feet in a humid environment, which will allow the fungus to breed.
2.If you have varicose veins in your lower limbs, or if your lower limbs are swollen, don't soak your feet, because varicose veins themselves are a tortuous dilatation of blood vessels, and soaking your feet will further dilate your blood vessels and make your symptoms worse.
3.Diabetic patients, especially elderly diabetic patients, should not soak their feet. Because diabetes itself can cause poor blood circulation in the distal limbs, there is ischemia and hypoxia, and the distal limb sensation is reduced, insensitive to temperature, and foot soaking can easily cause limb burns without realizing it, and even lead to serious consequences.
4.It is not recommended for people with broken feet to soak their feet within 3-5 days, because heat therapy will cause blood vessels to dilate more, and the sagging of both lower limbs will also lead to aggravated local swelling, which is not conducive to the improvement of the condition.
5.Doctors do not recommend foot soaking for patients with vasculitis, it is the same as diabetes, the blood circulation of the blood vessels itself is not good, and after foot soaking heat therapy, the local metabolism will be accelerated, which will induce the symptoms of ischemia pain.
The Department of Geriatrics of Shanghai Third ** Hospital is good at using traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine acupuncture, moxibustion, massage, cupping, fumigation, dressing and other traditional Chinese medicine characteristics, as well as comprehensive technologies such as physics and operation, and has significant curative effects in stroke, fracture surgery, cervical and lumbar disc herniation, etc.
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