Is it okay to take a shower after dinner?

If you take a shower after a meal, it is naturally very bad for your body, because it will cause the blood vessels all over your body to be stimulated by the heat, causing the blood flow to speed up. If you are a patient who already suffers from hypoglycemia, the disease will flare up, leading to physical exhaustion or even complications such as fainting, so you must take it seriously.

1. You should not take a bath after a full meal or when you are hungry. When you take a shower after a full meal, the hot water will stimulate the blood vessels throughout your body to dilate, causing more blood to flow to the body surface. The blood supply to the abdominal cavity will be relatively reduced, which will affect digestion and absorption, causing hypoglycemia, and even collapse and fainting.

2. You should not take a bath after drinking. Alcohol inhibits liver activity and hinders the recovery of glucose in the body. When taking a bath, the body's glucose consumption will increase. If you take a shower after drinking, your blood sugar won't be replenished in time, which can easily cause dizziness, blurred vision, and general weakness. In severe cases, you may even suffer from hypoglycemia and coma.

3. You should not take a shower immediately after work. Whether it is physical labor or mental labor, you should rest for a while before taking a shower, otherwise it will easily cause insufficient blood supply to the heart and brain, or even fainting.

4. You should not take a bath when your blood pressure is too low. When the water temperature is too high, people's blood vessels dilate, and people with low blood pressure are prone to temporary cerebral ischemia and collapse.

5. You should not take a bath when you have a fever. When a person's body temperature rises to 38°C, the body's heat consumption can increase by 20%, and the body becomes weaker. Taking a bath at this time is prone to accidents.

In addition, even if there is no high fever, it is best not to take a bath during the acute stage of the disease. Patients with severe heart disease, severe anemia, uremia, hypertension over 180 mmHg, myocardial infarction, acute nephritis, acute hepatitis, trauma, etc. should not take a bath.

6. Patients with cerebrovascular disease should not take a bath frequently. The heat stimulation generated during bathing will accelerate blood flow in the patient's body, thereby increasing the pressure of blood on blood vessels. When blood flows through certain local lesions, blood vessels are prone to rupture.

7. Patients with epilepsy should not take a bath frequently. When taking a shower, a large amount of water vapor is inhaled into the body, which causes the oxygen content in the body to decrease. In addition, the body produces more sweat, which disrupts the electrolyte balance, easily causing temporary functional disorders and inducing epilepsy.

8. The elderly should not bathe too frequently. The elderly have weaker physical strength, thinner skin, and their sebaceous glands gradually atrophy. If they bathe too frequently, their skin will easily become dry and cause itching. If the water temperature is too high when taking a bath, it is difficult for the heat in the body to dissipate. It can also easily cause capillary dilation and cause cerebral ischemia, dizziness, and even fainting.

Three things to note when pregnant women clean their bodies

After a woman becomes pregnant, a series of physiological changes occur in all tissues and systems of her body. The amount of dandruff on the skin increases, and the secretion of sweat glands and sebaceous glands is also vigorous, so pregnant women must also pay attention to skin hygiene. Pregnant women should pay attention to the following aspects when cleaning their bodies:

Take a bath and pay attention to three proper

1. Appropriate frequency. In the hot summer, you should take a bath at least twice a day; in the pleasant spring and autumn, 1 to 2 times a week is enough; in the cold winter, once every two weeks is enough.

2. The time is appropriate. It is not advisable to take a bath when you are hungry or within 1 hour after a full meal. The water temperature is appropriate. Regardless of spring, summer, autumn or winter, the bath water temperature should be close to body temperature (27℃～35℃). The irritation caused by too cold or too hot water on the skin will affect the blood distribution throughout the body of pregnant women, which is not good for maternal health and fetal development.

3. The method is appropriate. Showering is more suitable for pregnant women than bathing because it prevents sewage from entering the vagina and avoids prenatal infection. Furthermore, pregnant women are heavy and it is inconvenient for them to get in and out of the bathtub. They may slip easily and hit their abdomen.