When it comes to health, most people will think of soaking their feet.
In particular, soaking your feet with hot water before going to bed can not only clean your feet, but also promote blood circulation.
Why is it so comfortable to soak your feet?
You know, blood vessels are distributed in all corners of the body, like branches of branches, constantly spreading throughout the muscles and skin.
In the process of foot soaking, the local temperature will increase, which will lead to arterial dilation, especially skin vessels, so people tend to feel relaxed and comfortable, but there is no health effect.
What are the benefits of soaking your feet in hot water?
First, relieve fatigue and improve sleep
Hot water soaking feet can not only play a role in accelerating the body's metabolic speed, but also effectively relieve the body's fatigue, and it is also of great help to improve the quality of sleep.
Second, dilate blood vessels, drive away the cold and keep warm
If you can insist on soaking your feet with hot water every night, you can not only accelerate the expansion of blood vessels, but also achieve the effect of driving away cold and keeping warm.
Especially for people who often have cold hands and feet, it may be because of poor blood circulation, insisting on soaking feet with warm water every day can not only improve the problem of cold hands and feet, but also effectively relieve nervous emotions.
For these people, it is really not suitable for soaking their feet with hot water
1. Diabetics
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease characterized by hyperglycemia, which is mainly divided into three types---- neuropathy, ischemia and mixed.
In neuropathic patients, their perception of temperature decreases, so they will feel that the legs and feet often feel cold, so they often choose hot water to soak their feet, and the sensory feedback mechanism of pain and water temperature will fail.
If diabetics soak their feet with hot water, even when the water temperature is particularly high, it is difficult for them to perceive, resulting in scalding of the skin of the feet, even if they are severely scalded, the patient is often unaware.
Patients with ischemic diabetes, due to hot water soaking feet, the ability of venous return will not increase, which will aggravate blood stasis, and over time, it will lead to the color of the calf becoming black.
Bleeding is worse if patients with venous thrombosis take anticoagulants.
If you have lower extremity arterial occlusion or diabetic foot, hot foot soaking may also face the possibility of amputation.
2. Arterial occlusion of the lower extremities
The main symptom of arterial occlusion of the lower extremities is ischemia, but soaking the feet in hot water does not dilate the occluded blood vessels, but only increases the blood flow of normal tissues.
In the process of soaking feet in hot water, the surrounding temperature will increase, the oxygen consumption of the tissue will increase, and then the ischemic tissue will aggravate the ischemia because of the phenomenon of "blood theft", but the condition will be aggravated.
Therefore, patients are advised to treat patients with anticoagulants or antiplatelet drugs rather than soaking their feet in hot water.
White vinegar soaking feet to cure athlete's foot? Unfortunately, it didn't work!
Although there are several types of beriberi, it is essentially a fungal infection, so it is best to treat beriberi with antifungal treatment.
The hot water bubble script body only plays a comfortable role, and there is no health effect, let alone any means of treating a certain disease.
For patients with the soles of the feet, especially those with wounds in the skin of the feet, if the treatment is not taken in time, it will easily lead to inflammation and infection of the affected area, such as frostbite, ulceration, skin diseases and other diseases in the feet.
Whether it is white vinegar soaking feet, or other ginger feet, tea feet... Do the claw is OK, beriberi or forget it, if you want to treat beriberi, it is recommended to give priority to the use of topical azole / acrylamine antifungal drugs.
This kind of topical drug is not only convenient to use, but also has a fast onset of action, few adverse reactions, and the most important thing is that the price is cheap.
However, it should be noted that do not rush to put on shoes and socks after application, so as not to be easily erased by the drug, resulting in poor results.
Of course, medication is only to solve a temporary problem, beriberi repeatedly, but also need to rely on daily health, such as do not use shoes and socks, dry the toes in time after bathing, shoes and socks with better penetration.
If you find frequent sweating on your feet, you may want to use topical antiperspirants or antifungal powders.