As winter gets closer and closer, the temperature gradually decreases, and many people, especially female friends, are prone to cold hands and feet. To alleviate this symptom, in addition to keeping warm, soaking your feet is also a very practical method.
Next, Xiao Di will talk to you about foot soaking.
1. The benefits of foot soaking.
Relieves fatigue: Soaking your feet in hot water after a tiring day can help us relax our muscles and relieve foot fatigue, while promoting blood circulation and allowing blood to flow to all parts of the body, making the body feel comfortable and relaxed.
Promotes blood circulation: Especially in the cold winter months, cold hands and feet often bother us. By soaking your feet, you can dilate your blood vessels, increase blood circulation, and make your hands and feet warmer.
Improve sleep quality: Soaking your feet before bed can relax your body and mind, relieve tension, promote blood circulation, and make you feel relaxed and comfortable, thus helping us to sleep better.
2. Scientific foot soaking.
Time selection: It is generally recommended to soak your feet before going to bed at night, which can promote sleep. The foot soaking time should not be too long, 15 minutes is appropriate, and avoiding long-term foot soaking may make the heart and brain blood supply insufficient, dizziness and other symptoms. At the same time, soak until the whole body sweats slightly.
Temperature control: The temperature of the water for adults to soak their feet should be controlled between 38 and 43, which is slightly higher than the body temperature. The water temperature for the elderly to soak their feet can be appropriately lower, about 35 40. Too high a water temperature can easily burn**, which can cause uncomfortable symptoms.
Water quantity control: The amount of water used to soak the feet should not be too small, and it is generally advisable to submerge the ankle joints and instep with water. Too little water will affect the effect of foot soaking, and too much water will easily overflow outside the container.
3. People who are contraindicated in foot soaking.
People with foot wounds: If you have a wound on your foot or calf, avoid soaking your feet until the wound is completely healed to prevent infection and prolong the recovery time.
People with cardiovascular diseases: because high temperature will lead to faster blood circulation, increase the burden of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and easily lead to aggravation of the disease. Therefore, people with cardiovascular disease should not soak their feet.
Diabetic people: Diabetic people may have poor sensitivity to peripheral nerves, and their perception of temperature when soaking their feet may be affected, which can easily cause burns. Due to the influence of the disease, the wound recovery after burns is slower, so diabetic people should not soak their feet.
People on an empty stomach: Soaking feet on an empty stomach will consume energy and easily cause hypoglycemia, in order to avoid such a situation, it is recommended to soak your feet after a period of time after meals.
In short, there are many benefits to soaking feet in winter, but we should also pay attention to the methods and taboos, so as to truly achieve the purpose of health care, I hope that Xiaodi's introduction can help everyone!
References: 1]: West China Hospital, Sichuan University, soak your feet in the cold, and treat the disease with heatHuaxi experts said that these four types of people are very wrong to be careful about soaking their feet!