The temperature of the water for foot soaking should not be too hot or too cold, and is generally maintained at 40℃~45℃.
Healthy people to develop the habit of foot soaking, does have certain health benefits, but also to pay attention to the scientific method. Foot soaking water temperature is too high, not only for cardiovascular disease patients are not favorable, and easy to destroy the foot skin surface of the sebaceous membrane, so that the stratum corneum dry or even cracked. Water temperature of 40 ℃ ~ 45 ℃ is appropriate. You can try with your hands first, and diabetics can use a thermometer to make measurements for insurance purposes.
Some people like to soak from the water is very hot to the water all cool, and even some keep adding hot water, continue to soak for a long time, this is actually the wrong approach. Foot bath time to 30 minutes is appropriate, every day or every other day to soak once can. For the elderly, foot soak time to be a little shorter, because the elderly soak too long, easy to trigger sweating, panic and other symptoms. Therefore, the elderly daily before going to bed to soak their feet for 20 minutes is good.
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Benefits of footbath:
1, improve sleep
Footbath can be used to improve sleep by promoting foot and systemic circulation, accelerating blood flow,, dispersing plantar deposits and eliminating fatigue in the body, eliminating fatigue so that the person is in a state of rest.
2, improve blood circulation
Footbath can improve blood circulation in the foot. The warmth of the water can expand the blood vessels in the foot, increase the skin temperature, thus promoting the foot and the whole body blood circulation. Some people have done tests, a healthy person with 40 ℃ - 45 ℃ of warm water soak feet for 30-40 minutes, the flow of blood throughout the body to increase the female for 10-13 times.
3, promote metabolism
Footbath can promote foot and systemic blood circulation, due to the increase in blood circulation, thereby regulating the endocrine function, prompting the endocrine glands to secrete a variety of hormones, such as thyroid hormone secreted by the thyroid gland, adrenal glands secretion of adrenaline, these hormones are able to promote metabolism.
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