Is it true that soaking your feet can cure eczema?

Among all skin diseases, eczema has the highest incidence rate, and both adults and children are prone to it. Eczema is divided into three types: acute, subacute and chronic. Different types of eczema have different symptoms. For example, acute eczema develops quickly and symptoms appear on the face, head, and limbs, and the skin may even ulcerate. So, is it true that soaking your feet can cure eczema?

What should I use to soak my feet for eczema? Soaking my feet in salt water can cure eczema.

Soaking your feet in salt water can cure eczema. This is because table salt has good antiviral and antibacterial effects. By putting table salt in hot water and using the heat in the water, the skin can better absorb the antiviral and antibacterial components of the salt water, thus achieving the effect of soaking your feet in salt water to treat athlete's foot.

In addition to treating eczema, soaking your feet in salt water has other benefits.

1. Salt water has a good bactericidal effect. Many people have athlete's foot because they do not pay attention to foot hygiene. They can treat it by soaking their feet in salt water. Put salt in very hot water and wait until the temperature is about the same before using it to soak your feet. This way, the skin on your feet can absorb the bactericidal components of the salt water.

2. Soaking your feet in salt water can clean your feet and exfoliate. Soaking your feet in salt water can not only wash your feet cleaner, but also remove the dead skin from your feet. Because table salt has an exfoliating effect, if you put table salt in hot water and soak your feet in it, you can use the heat in the hot water to enhance the exfoliating effect. Soaking your feet in salt water is a good way to maintain health in all seasons. If you have poor sleep quality, you can wash your feet in salt water.

3. Soaking your feet in salt water can enhance your physical fitness: The feet are far away from the heart, but there are reflex areas of the five internal organs on the soles of the feet. Soaking your feet in salt water can enhance your cardiopulmonary function, while also promoting blood circulation, and can have anti-aging and kidney-tonifying effects.

4. Prevent and treat colds. The temperature is unstable in autumn and people are prone to catching colds. Soaking feet in salt water can promote blood circulation, remove the cold from the body, and prevent and treat colds.

5. Improve sleep quality: Soaking your feet in salt water can completely relax your mind. If you can combine it with massaging the Yongquan acupoint, it can resist insomnia. At the same time, it can also enhance your body's resistance and let you have a good night's sleep.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that if there is a wound on the foot, it is best not to soak the foot in salt water, because it may irritate the wound and may also make the wound worse.

There are really many benefits of soaking your feet in salt water. In fact, you can also use some massage techniques while soaking your feet. This can make your mind more relaxed. At the same time, stimulating your body's acupuncture points will also make the body's qi and blood flow more smoothly.

Many people have allergic constitutions and like to wear tight clothes every day. The clothes are always rubbing against the skin, which can easily cause allergies over time, and the chance of developing eczema will greatly increase. Therefore, if you want to prevent eczema, you must wear loose clothes to prevent friction and irritation between the skin and clothes.