Who can't use a footbath?

People who are in the fever period of infectious diseases such as pneumonia; people with local skin infections such as sores and boils; people with various open soft tissue injuries; people with broken skin and burns on the feet; patients with various infectious diseases; people with upper gastrointestinal bleeding and menorrhagia, and people with bleeding tendency; people with severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and mental patients; people who are extremely tired and drunk should not soak their feet. Pregnant women and children should not soak their feet in hot water, but only wash their feet with warm water.

Many people also sell them to their family members for use. They all know that footbaths are convenient to use and have health benefits, but few people know that some people are not suitable for using footbaths. If you are interested in buying a footbath as a gift for the elderly, you might want to take a look at this to avoid wasting money when you find out later that the footbath is not suitable for you. Now let’s take a look at who is not suitable for using a foot bath.

Some acupoints on the foot cannot be heavily massaged during pregnancy. However, most high-quality foot bath brands on the market now have massage functions. If some female friends use foot baths improperly, it may cause miscarriage. It is not suitable to soak your feet during menstruation, because soaking your feet will speed up blood circulation in the lower limbs of the body. Soaking your feet during menstruation will not only fail to have a health-care effect, but will increase the amount of menstruation and affect the normal operation of the endocrine system.

As we mentioned before, foot bath will accelerate blood circulation in the lower limbs of the body, causing blood to flow from the upper limbs to the lower limbs faster. At this time, patients with severe heart and brain diseases will suffer from heart failure, coma and other symptoms due to insufficient blood supply to the upper limbs. There is no problem in using a foot bath for a short time, but it is not advisable to use the foot bath for too long. For this group of people, it is generally appropriate to use the foot bath for 15 minutes.

Some diabetic patients will have lesions in the nerve endings and blood vessels in their feet, which will reduce their perception and make them often unable to feel external stimuli. When they use an ordinary basin for a foot bath, they must have someone else test the water temperature because they cannot feel that the water is too hot. By the time they feel it, their feet have already been scalded. Therefore, it is best to use a foot bath that can automatically set and display the temperature to avoid the risk of burns.