Soaking feet is a daily choice for many people to relax. After a busy day, doing a foot bath or soaking in hot water feet can not only relieve fatigue, relieve foot soreness and pain, but also relax and help sleep. Many people regard foot bathing as a kind of health preservation, and insist on soaking their feet with hot water every day. But a seemingly simple small habit is suitable for some people, but for some people, it increases the health risk.

So, soaking your feet with hot water every day is a real health preservation or a chronic suicide?

1. Improve blood circulation and relieve fatigue

Soak your feet with warm water. Because of heat expansion and cold contraction, the capillaries on your feet and even your calves expand, which promotes local blood circulation. Feet, as the lowest part of the human body, gather a lot of peripheral circulation and nerve endings, which is the place where the human body bears the greatest pressure. Every day, people have to walk and exercise, whether the muscles or bones on the feet, or even the blood vessels and nerves, all bear the pressure from the upper body, which may cause local blood circulation disorder and local tenderness and fatigue, and soaking in hot water feet can solve this problem well.

Soaking feet with hot water relaxes blood vessels, speeds up local blood flow, nourishes nerves, and releases lactic acid accumulated in muscles, which has a very good effect on relieving foot fatigue and foot pain.

2. Stimulate acupoints for health care

In traditional Chinese medicine, every organ of the human body has a projection area on the body surface, which is called acupoints in traditional Chinese medicine. There are many acupoints on human feet, which are often closely related to human health. For example, Yongquan point, which is often heard, is the area of the sole of the foot, which is in the upper third and the lower third of the seam between the second and third toes. Soaking feet with hot water can stimulate these acupoints very well. Take Yongquan point as an example. Stimulating Yongquan point can treat syncope, dizziness, heatstroke, insomnia, difficulty in defecation, etc. In acupuncture department, acupuncture is used to stimulate Yongquan point to treat these diseases.

3. Enhance immunity

People with weak constitution may have these feelings, and their limbs are cold, which is often caused by poor peripheral circulation. Soaking hot feet can enhance peripheral circulation, improve capillary circulation disorder, promote blood circulation of limbs, and thus enhance the body's immunity.

There is also a saying in rural areas that colds are often caused by cold feet. These are the experiences of ordinary people, but they all have very strict scientific basis. Yongquan, the biggest acupoint on the sole of the foot, is regarded by Chinese medicine as the projecting organ of Yongquan. If Yongquan suffers from cold for a long time, the function of kidney will decline. As we all know, the kidney is the largest metabolic and excretory organ of the human body, and it also has the functions of secreting hormones, regulating immunity and stimulating hematopoiesis. Therefore, stimulating Yongquan point has a very positive effect on the protection of the kidney, that is, it can improve immunity very well.

4, prevention of skin diseases and local infections

Many people have the problem of sweaty feet. After a day's work, socks are often wet, while shoes are closed, which is easy to breed a lot of bacteria. In the long run, some skin diseases will appear, such as damp disease, athlete's foot, etc., and damp and athlete's foot are very itchy, and you want to scratch when you itch.

1. Patients with low blood pressure

If patients with low blood pressure suddenly soak their feet in hot water, the temperature of lower limbs rises sharply, capillaries suddenly expand in large quantities, and blood quickly rushes to the lower limbs and skin surface, resulting in rapid cerebral ischemia in a short time, which is easy to cause hypotensive cerebrovascular accidents.

2. Diabetic patients

The sensitivity of peripheral nerve of diabetic patients is often lower than that of normal people, so when they soak their feet in hot water, they often don't feel hot, and when they react, they often have caused burns on their lower limbs. In addition, patients with severe diabetes are prone to ulceration of diabetic feet and lower limbs. At this time, if you soak your feet again, it may cause skin ulceration and infection, so it is not suitable for diabetic patients to soak their feet in hot water frequently.

3. Patients with coronary heart disease

Patients with coronary heart disease are often caused by coronary artery stenosis, which leads to myocardial ischemia and necrosis. However, if patients with coronary heart disease often soak their feet in hot water, it will aggravate coronary artery ischemia and myocardial ischemia and easily induce angina pectoris and coronary heart disease.

4. People with high blood pressure fluctuation

Nowadays, there are more and more people with high blood pressure, and blood pressure fluctuation is also a very important problem. People with poor blood pressure control should try to avoid soaking feet in hot water for a long time, because soaking feet can dilate blood vessels and affect blood pressure. In people with unstable blood pressure, the activity of capillaries and the elastic retraction force of blood vessel walls are weakened, which is easy to cause blood vessels to burst and induce cardiovascular accidents.

5. Children

Children's foot bathing should be carried out under the supervision of adults, because hot water is more irritating to children's skin, and sometimes children's nerve reflexes are not fully developed, so they are easy to get burned.

1. Don't soak your feet immediately after a full meal

We have all noticed that it is easy to feel sleepy after a full meal. It is because the blood is concentrated in the gastrointestinal tract after a full meal, and there is mild ischemia and hypoxia in the brain, which makes you feel sleepy. If you soak your feet immediately after a full meal, it will easily lead to the rapid influx of blood into the lower limbs, so the blood supply in the gastrointestinal tract will be insufficient, which will affect digestion and lead to bloating and indigestion.

2. Don't go to bed immediately after soaking your feet

Some people go to bed immediately after soaking their feet, which is actually unscientific. After soaking feet, the capillaries are all dilated, which is prone to hypotension. If you lie down and sleep quickly at this time, it may cause dizziness. In addition, if you can do some simple foot massage after soaking feet, you will get twice the result with half the effort.

Third, you should concentrate on enjoying the foot bath.

Some people are half-hearted when playing mobile phones and watching TV, so you can't enjoy the Shu Yue feeling brought by the foot bath, and it may cause burns. When soaking your feet, listening to soothing music and relaxing your mood has a very good effect on relieving fatigue and improving fatigue.

Fourth, the foot soaking time should not be too long

Foot soaking has many advantages and the process is very comfortable, so many people soak for half an hour or even an hour, which is prone to dehydration and dryness of the foot skin. The correct foot soaking time should be about 15 minutes.

Conclusion: Foot-soaking is a very popular way of keeping in good health, but many people ignore the negative side of foot-soaking, especially for some people with health risks. Only by correctly understanding the advantages and disadvantages of soaking feet, keeping in good health scientifically and soaking feet healthily can we enjoy life better.