Why can't you drink alcohol when taking a hot spring bath

Although hot spring bathing is good for the body, if you don’t pay attention to some things, it will affect your health. Before taking a hot spring bath, that is, before entering the hot spring pool, it is best to take a proper rest. During this time, you should rest quietly, do not drink alcohol, and do not do too strenuous exercise, and then enter the hot spring pool. If you are an older person, it is best not to sit when taking a hot spring bath, but to float up. This can avoid symptoms such as chest tightness and palpitations caused by taking a hot spring bath. As for why you can’t drink alcohol when taking a hot spring bath, please see the introduction below.

Avoid taking a hot spring bath after drinking alcohol, as it can easily induce alcohol poisoning, orthostatic hypotension, collapse, and adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events, which may lead to accidents. The effects produced by alcohol intake on the human body are similar to those of taking a hot spring bath, which can increase the body's basal metabolism, speed up the heart rate, increase blood pressure, accelerate blood circulation, increase oxygen consumption of organs such as the heart and brain, and reduce blood supply relatively. Therefore, drinking alcohol while taking a hot spring bath will aggravate these reactions, which is a safety hazard especially for patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

When drinking alcohol while taking a hot spring bath, you should pay attention to individual physical differences. The prerequisite is that the person should be young, have a strong physique, be free of cardiovascular and other organic diseases, and have a certain alcohol tolerance. It is recommended to have a "small drink" in the outdoor hot spring with low-alcohol wine, and avoid excessive drinking. Experts especially remind people not to take a hot spring bath after drinking alcohol, because it can easily induce alcohol poisoning (explanation, medicine), orthostatic hypotension (explanation, medicine), collapse (explanation, medicine) and adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events, which may lead to accidents.

In fact, in addition to not drinking alcohol, there are many other issues that need to be paid attention to when taking a hot spring bath. For example, the water temperature should be between 38 and 42 degrees Celsius when taking a hot spring bath, and try not to exceed 45℃. Because once the water temperature exceeds 45℃, our skin will feel very hot and may even burn the skin. In addition, it is best to calm your mind and body when taking a hot spring bath, and do not read or listen to music.