Things to note after soaking your feet

After soaking our feet, we need to dry the soles of our feet and pour away the dirty water. We cannot go to bed immediately after soaking our feet. We need to pay attention to the soaking time and not use Chinese medicine for soaking our feet indiscriminately. Because soaking our feet with Chinese medicine is to treat body functions, using Chinese medicine for soaking our feet indiscriminately will affect your health. As for the precautions after soaking your feet, we must pay attention to the hygiene of our feet and avoid going to bed with wet feet, as this can easily cause symptoms of athlete's foot.

1. Don’t go to bed immediately after soaking your feet.

Don’t go to bed immediately after soaking your feet. Rub the soles of your feet while they are still warm, and then go to bed after the heat in your whole body is relieved.

2. It is best to use a wooden basin for soaking your feet with Chinese medicine.

The chemical composition in metal basins such as copper basins is unstable and can easily react with tannic acid in traditional Chinese medicine to produce harmful substances such as tannic acid iron, which greatly reduces the efficacy of the medicine.

3. Pay attention to the hygiene and cleanliness of the bathing tub.

If the foot soaking tub is not cleaned thoroughly or the tub wall is not treated with antibacterial agents, the bacteria on the feet will easily remain on the tub wall, causing repeated infections of the feet. Therefore, it is very important to choose a good foot soaking tub.

4. Children should not soak their feet in overheated water for a long time.

Because the arch of the foot begins to form in childhood, it is important to pay attention to protecting it from an early age. If you often use hot water to wash your child's feet, the ligaments on the soles of the feet will become loose, which is not conducive to the formation and maintenance of the arch of the foot and can easily lead to flat feet.

5. The foot soaking time should not be too long, 15 to 30 minutes is appropriate.

When soaking your feet, blood will flow to the lower limbs, and the brain is prone to insufficient blood supply. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and the elderly who feel chest tightness or dizziness should temporarily stop soaking their feet and take a rest. Diabetic patients have poor peripheral sensory ability, so family members should test the water temperature first to prevent scalding.

6. It is not advisable to soak your feet within 1 hour after a meal.

After eating, most of the blood in the body flows to the digestive tract. If you soak your feet in hot water immediately after a meal, the blood that should flow to the digestive system will flow to the lower limbs instead. Over time, this will affect digestion and absorption and lead to nutritional deficiencies. Therefore, it is best to soak your feet one hour after a meal.

7. Women should not use Chinese medicine to soak their feet during menstruation.

The problems that women encounter during their menstrual period are more complicated. If you cannot identify the cause and use Chinese medicine to soak your feet, it will not only fail to have a soothing effect, but may also aggravate symptoms such as dysmenorrhea. Therefore, if women want to use Chinese medicine foot bathing to treat menstrual health problems such as dysmenorrhea, it is best to consult a doctor and take the appropriate medication according to their own situation.

8. This is not suitable for everyone.

For people with lower limb vascular arterial occlusive disease, soaking the feet or using hot water bottles, heaters, or electric blankets to keep warm may have a counterproductive effect, or even aggravate the condition and cause limb necrosis. People with high blood pressure, diabetes and long-term smoking need to have regular check-ups to prevent vascular health diseases and should not soak their feet rashly. In addition, people with special physical conditions who are prone to getting inflamed or people with skin damage on their feet should not soak their feet.