Foot soaking is a more traditional way of health preservation, and soaking your feet in hot water every day can get rid of some of the cold in your body. Moreover, foot soaking can relieve physical fatigue, eliminate some bad emotions, and also help improve sleep quality.
Especially after entering autumn, the temperature gradually drops, and soaking your feet in hot water for a period of time every night can promote blood circulation in the body and increase the speed of metabolism, so as to improve the overall immunity. But when soaking your feet in autumn, there are some important points that you must keep in mind in order to really play a role in health preservation.
What are the precautions for foot soak in autumn?
1. Pay attention to the choice of foot soaking time
Although foot soaking has more health care effects, it is not possible to soak your feet at any time, such as not soaking your feet just after eating.
Because just after eating, there is a lot of food in the stomach that needs to be digested, and the stomach needs a lot of blood** at this time to improve its own digestive function and achieve the effect of quickly digesting food.
If you soak your feet at this time, the hot water will dilate the blood vessels in the lower legs and feet, and a large amount of blood will flow to the lower limbs. The blood flow to the stomach will be reduced, which will affect the digestive function, and it is easy to have indigestion and food accumulation.
In addition, there are many people who go to sleep immediately after soaking their feet, which is believed to have the effect of promoting sleep. Soaking your feet before going to bed does have the effect of promoting sleep, but you should not go to bed immediately after soaking your feet, and you should let the heat of your feet return to normal before you can sleep.
Because just after soaking the feet, the blood flow rate of the whole body is relatively fast, if you lie down to sleep immediately at this time, the blood of the brain and heart is not timely, and it is easy to cause dizziness or palpitation.
2. Pay attention to the control of the water temperature of foot soaking
There are many people who think that as long as it is within the range of their own tolerance, the higher the temperature of the water for foot soaking, the better the health effect, but this method is also wrong.
However, do not use some cool water to soak your feet, otherwise it will not have any effect on promoting blood circulation, and it will also lead to too much cold invasion in the body, which will not have any health benefits.
3. Pay attention to the control of foot soaking time
For healthy adults, it is enough to keep the time of foot soaking for about 15 minutes each time. If the foot soaking time is more than 20 minutes, the blood circulation in the feet and calves will be accelerated for a long time, and the blood volume in the lower limbs will increase, which will cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular ischemia.
For people with hypertension and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, the time of foot soaking should be controlled within 10 minutes each time.
Especially after entering autumn, the temperature difference between morning and evening is relatively large, and for people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, blood vessels will be in a state of abnormal spasm. Once the feet are soaked for a long time, it will cause serious insufficiency of blood supply to the heart and brain, which will have a great impact on health.
All in all, after entering the autumn, although soaking feet properly every day has more health care effects, we must keep the above 3 points in mind when soaking our feet.
In addition, because foot soaking has the effect of promoting blood circulation, for pregnant women, they can wash their feet with hot water every night, but they can not soak their feet, otherwise it will lead to abnormal contraction of the uterus, which will affect the normal development of the fetus.
For diabetic patients, do not soak their feet for a long time, otherwise, the foot is prone to some damage, and the probability of diabetic foot will be relatively increased, which is not good for health.