In autumn and winter, the weather gradually becomes colder and people with blood clots often feel cold in their lower limbs, so they naturally think of soaking their feet in hot water for a while to help warm their bodies and resist the cold. So can thrombosis patients soak their feet?
Can people with blood clots soak their feet?
Patients with blood clots cannot soak their feet in hot water. Soaking feet in hot water is a way of health care for many people, but for patients with varicose veins and venous thrombosis, soaking feet often leads to aggravation or even deterioration of the condition, which is harmful but not beneficial.
Why can't people with blood clots soak their feet
When soaking feet with hot water, the arteries of lower limbs expand, the skin is congested, and more arterial blood enters the lower limbs, which will aggravate the blood stagnation for patients with poor reflux or blocked veins; hot water soaking feet can also lead to capillary rupture, forming bleeding spots on the skin, and over time, pigmentation will be formed and the color of the lower legs will become black; if patients with venous thrombosis are taking anticoagulant drugs, the bleeding situation will be more serious. .
How to take a healthy foot bath for thrombosis patients
If thrombosis patients want to soak their feet, then they can use warm water to soak their feet, but don't push, or do leg heat therapy, don't use footbath to soak their feet, and don't go to footbath store for footbath to avoid aggravating the condition.
Warm Tips
For patients with arterial thrombosis, after anticoagulation treatment, the patient's legs will be cold due to ischemia, but in order to ensure the effect of treatment, you should not soak your feet or perform leg heat therapy at this time, which is very unfavorable to the treatment of the disease.
