6 taboos of hot water foot bath

The temperature has dropped in recent days, and it is very pleasant to go home and soak your feet in hot water late at night. However, a citizen in Hankou suddenly suffered a ruptured cerebral vascular aneurysm while soaking his feet and died after failed rescue efforts. Why does soaking your feet cause sudden death?

1. Avoid excessive temperature

Foot soaking can quickly warm up the feet through the water temperature, but the water temperature must not be too high, because too high water temperature will scald the skin of the feet. In mild cases, it will cause redness, and in severe cases, blisters will form. We often see skin scalds due to overheated water temperature. Diabetic patients should pay more attention to the temperature of the water because they are insensitive to temperature and are more likely to be scalded.

2. It is not advisable to soak your feet when you are too full or hungry.

Because soaking your feet will speed up blood circulation throughout the body. If you are too full, it will affect your stomach's digestion. If you are hungry, it will cause symptoms such as dizziness.

3. Patients with heart disease and low blood pressure should be careful of syncope

This type of patients should be extra careful when soaking their feet. First, the water temperature should not be too high, and second, the soaking time should not be too long. This is because soaking feet in hot water will quickly cause the body's blood vessels to dilate, and blood throughout the body will flow from important organs to the body surface. Therefore, it is easy to cause ischemia and hypoxia of important organs such as the heart and brain. Therefore, for people with heart disease and low blood pressure, it will increase their risk of disease.

4. People with athlete's foot should not soak their feet in hot water

Because athlete's foot is a fungal infection, soaking your feet in hot water can easily aggravate the infection. If you have inflammation or disease in your feet, soaking your feet in hot water is not suitable.

5. Elderly people should not soak their feet for too long

Because the physical fitness and constitution of the elderly are declining, their bodies are relatively weaker. If they soak their feet for too long, it will cause symptoms such as sweating and palpitations, and it may also easily induce some diseases. Therefore, it is recommended that the elderly should not soak their feet for more than 20 minutes.

6. Infants and young children do not need to soak their feet

Don’t think that foot soaking is suitable for everyone. It is not suitable for very young children, because infants and young children have a "pure yang body" and children have strong yang energy, which makes them prone to fever. If they use hot water to soak their feet, it will add heat to the heat and make them easily get angry. Therefore, never use hot water to soak children's feet. Only use warm water to wash their feet, and you can massage them properly after washing their feet. This is good for the child's health.