What situations are not suitable for foot soaking?

Foot soaking is a good way to maintain health. Soaking feet in hot water frequently can promote blood circulation, help sleep, and better ensure personal hygiene. Especially for friends with athlete's foot, adding some Chinese herbal medicine when soaking feet can also play a bactericidal role. However, although foot soaking has many benefits, it is not suitable for everyone. Let’s take a brief look at what situations are not suitable for foot soaking.

1. Children who are in the growth and development stage.

The water temperature for soaking feet of children in the developmental period should not be too high. Frequent soaking feet in overheated water will cause the plantar ligaments to deform and relax due to heat, which is not conducive to the development of the arch of the foot and can easily induce flat feet over time.

2. People who are hungry or too full.

People who are fasting or too full should not soak their feet, because soaking the feet will cause the blood vessels in the feet to dilate and the blood volume to increase, resulting in a decrease in blood flow to the gastrointestinal tract and internal organs, affecting the gastrointestinal digestive function. That is, foot bath before meals may inhibit the secretion of gastric juice, which is not good for digestion; foot bath immediately after meals can cause a decrease in gastrointestinal blood volume, affecting digestion.

3. People who are in a state of extreme anger, sorrow, or joy, or who are mentally stressed or physically fatigued.

Although foot soaking is good, before soaking your feet you must find out who cannot soak their feet and what the precautions for soaking your feet are, so that you can soak your feet correctly, so that you can maintain your health.

4. Various critically ill patients such as renal failure and heart failure.

Who shouldn’t soak their feet? For critically ill patients such as renal failure and heart failure, their conditions are very unstable, and stimulation of the foot reflex zones may cause strong reactions and complicate their conditions, so these people should not soak their feet.

5. Women who are pregnant or menstruating.

Who shouldn’t soak their feet? Women who are pregnant or menstruating should not soak their feet, because Chinese medicine foot bath may stimulate the women's gonad reflex area, thus affecting the health of women and fetuses.

6. Diabetic patients.

Who shouldn’t soak their feet? People with diabetes should also pay special attention to the water temperature, because such patients are prone to complications of peripheral neuropathy, which makes the peripheral nerves unable to sense the external temperature normally. Even if the water temperature is very high, they cannot feel it and are easily scalded.

The above briefly explains the situations in which foot soaking is not suitable. Although health preservation is a method of physical health care that can make our bodies healthier, it is not suitable for everyone. The above is an introduction to who is not suitable for foot soaking. After understanding it, we know that growing children and pregnant women should try not to soak their feet.