Precautions for bathing

September 9, 2023
The purpose of bathing is to cleanse the skin and remove metabolic products from the body surface. Taking a hot bath in cold weather can also promote blood circulation, which is beneficial to human health. But do you know what are the precautions for bathing?

Do not take a bath after a full meal

After a meal, especially within half an hour after a full meal should not take a bath, because after a full meal, the body's blood needs to flow to the stomach, to ensure that the work of the digestive tract needs. If you take a bath, the blood vessels of the skin will expand, so that the blood that should flow to the stomach will flow to the skin, which is bound to affect digestion. The elderly, hypertensive and heart patients need special attention.

No bath on an empty stomach

Excessive hunger should also not take a bath, bathing when blood circulation accelerates, metabolism accelerates, and fasting situation, blood sugar is low, it is easy to cause dizziness and brain swelling, and even coma.

Excessive fatigue does not take a bath

Excessive fatigue should be rested for half an hour before bathing, when tired, muscle tension is poor, the shower is easy to stand unstable and fall. So it is recommended that after strenuous exercise or overexertion do not immediately take a shower, should first wait for the body a little calm before taking a shower.

Special period women should not bathe

Women in menstruation, pregnancy or during the menstruation period should not take a tub bath, special physiological period women's body resistance is reduced, easy to infect bacteria, inducing gynecological inflammation, tub bath will increase the risk of infection.

Control the bathing time

Each bath time is best to control within 10-20 minutes, at most not more than half an hour. The blood circulation is accelerated when bathing, which will cause a certain burden on the heart, and a long bath can easily cause brain hypoxia and fainting.

Bathing should not be too frequent

adults should not take a bath more than 2 times a week in winter, the elderly due to slow skin metabolism, you can take a bath once a week. Adults should not bathe more than twice a day in the summer, and it is not recommended that each bath with soap or body wash, the elderly should take a bath once a day is enough. Adults in spring and autumn, the number of baths per week to control about 3 times, the elderly can be appropriate to reduce the number of baths, it is recommended to take 2 baths per week.
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