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Prepare the sleigh - let's go to the bathhouse!
The end of autumn and the first days of winter are a dreary time. When the holidays are far away, the warmth is even further away and there is nothing special to please ourselves with, we remember the bathhouse.
Everyone knows perfectly well what to do in the bathhouse: warm up, steam, relax, wash. All this is beneficial for a healthy person; those who are not very healthy, as a rule, focus on their feelings - we are not our own enemies; For those who are forgetful and chronically ill, there is a reminder on the doors of any public bathhouse with a list of diseases and conditions for which access to the steam room is prohibited. However, even avid bath attendants who hang out in steam rooms every weekend make mistakes. Here are the most common ones.
Bath and beer
The bath is a stress for the whole body, which is why it is considered a hardening procedure. But if the vessels may need reasonable training, and the skin will not be harmed by this kind of stress, then the kidneys do not need this. Thanks to heavy sweating, they get the opportunity to relax, and then suddenly - beer: its diuretic properties in hot conditions are absolutely not what the kidneys need. You should not drink beer, but mineral water or green tea. And not in the steam room - in the waiting room.
By the way, a note to those who consider a couple of bottles of beer to be a frivolous dose for themselves: the heat increases intoxication, and it may happen that the dose suddenly turns out to be serious not only for your brain, but also for your heart.
Bathhouse and acute respiratory infections
They don’t go to the bathhouse for treatment or follow-up treatment. It is not recommended to visit the steam room not only with residual symptoms such as cough and runny nose - even if you are in full health, you can start steaming no earlier than 2 weeks after recovery.
This period is not designated by chance: within about 2 weeks after an acute respiratory viral infection, complications most often arise - myocarditis, pyelonephritis, joint diseases. A bathhouse, as an increased load on a weakened body, increases the risk of all this.
You can warm up in the bathhouse if you are cold - to prevent acute respiratory infections. But if the disease has made itself felt, taking a steam bath means driving it even deeper into yourself. The fact is that bacteria and viruses that operate in the patient’s body poison him with the products of their vital activity. Intoxication occurs: fever, joint aches, muscle pain and headaches - that’s all it is. When a person lies at home in a warm place and drinks a lot of different healthy things, toxins are removed from the body. In the bath, the blood vessels dilate, toxins are actively absorbed into the cells and poison the body more strongly. It is clear that we are not talking about any relief.
Bath and time
For some reason, it is believed that you need to steam until exhaustion - the more strength you leave in the steam room, the better you will feel later. Considering the serious load on the blood vessels and the observations of doctors who have not been surprised for a long time by bath and post-bath heart attacks and strokes in fairly young people, it is better not to leave the strength in the steam room. There are very clear instructions from doctors: one bath session means 2–4 visits to the steam room for 7–10 minutes. But for some, 3 minutes in the steam room is enough, and for some, even a lot of them. If you feel dizzy, it becomes difficult to breathe, your pulse quickens, pressure appears in your chest, spots appear before your eyes (all this indicates the body is overheating), you should immediately leave the steam room and lie down somewhere cool until your breathing and pulse return to normal.
Bath and unstable pressure
An ordinary person learns about vascular problems, unfortunately, not at an early stage - often only when he comes into the hands of doctors with heart pain or persistent hypertension. Until then, he feels healthy, considers himself as such and behaves accordingly - including lighting up in the bathhouse. And this is an extreme thing in any case, because the vessels are constantly under tension. Even if atherosclerosis or hypertension is still in its early stages, anything can happen. A dry steam room - for example a Finnish sauna - will be safer in this sense.
Bathhouse and street
The steamed man hurries home - I’ll rest, they say, there. Sometimes on public transport or on foot, although even driving in your own car in such a state is a risky business: you can get very cold and get either a banal acute respiratory infection or cystitis, or an exacerbation of chronic diseases. The bath day should end with 15–20 minutes of rest in the locker room (dressing room), which will allow you to completely cool down - only after that you can go outside.
By the way
Physiotherapists call the bathhouse a folk analogue of a physiotherapy room: practically the same thing happens there - they warm up, take a shower, do a massage, and breathe steam. Eucalyptus is a hit among other additives to steam-moisture inhalations; it softens the respiratory tract, has a bactericidal effect, and reduces inflammation. Chamomile has the same effect: it can be brewed either separately or in combination with other herbs - sage, St. John's wort - at the rate of 1 tablespoon per glass of water. Often, water with the addition of fir oil is added to the stones (1 drop per liter of water is enough) - fir steam makes breathing easier. Mint tones, as do citrus aromas - it is no coincidence that they are spoken of as festive.
Everyone knows perfectly well what to do in the bathhouse: warm up, steam, relax, wash. All this is beneficial for a healthy person; those who are not very healthy, as a rule, focus on their feelings - we are not our own enemies; For those who are forgetful and chronically ill, there is a reminder on the doors of any public bathhouse with a list of diseases and conditions for which access to the steam room is prohibited. However, even avid bath attendants who hang out in steam rooms every weekend make mistakes. Here are the most common ones.
Bath and beer
The bath is a stress for the whole body, which is why it is considered a hardening procedure. But if the vessels may need reasonable training, and the skin will not be harmed by this kind of stress, then the kidneys do not need this. Thanks to heavy sweating, they get the opportunity to relax, and then suddenly - beer: its diuretic properties in hot conditions are absolutely not what the kidneys need. You should not drink beer, but mineral water or green tea. And not in the steam room - in the waiting room.
By the way, a note to those who consider a couple of bottles of beer to be a frivolous dose for themselves: the heat increases intoxication, and it may happen that the dose suddenly turns out to be serious not only for your brain, but also for your heart.
Bathhouse and acute respiratory infections
They don’t go to the bathhouse for treatment or follow-up treatment. It is not recommended to visit the steam room not only with residual symptoms such as cough and runny nose - even if you are in full health, you can start steaming no earlier than 2 weeks after recovery.
This period is not designated by chance: within about 2 weeks after an acute respiratory viral infection, complications most often arise - myocarditis, pyelonephritis, joint diseases. A bathhouse, as an increased load on a weakened body, increases the risk of all this.
You can warm up in the bathhouse if you are cold - to prevent acute respiratory infections. But if the disease has made itself felt, taking a steam bath means driving it even deeper into yourself. The fact is that bacteria and viruses that operate in the patient’s body poison him with the products of their vital activity. Intoxication occurs: fever, joint aches, muscle pain and headaches - that’s all it is. When a person lies at home in a warm place and drinks a lot of different healthy things, toxins are removed from the body. In the bath, the blood vessels dilate, toxins are actively absorbed into the cells and poison the body more strongly. It is clear that we are not talking about any relief.
Bath and time
For some reason, it is believed that you need to steam until exhaustion - the more strength you leave in the steam room, the better you will feel later. Considering the serious load on the blood vessels and the observations of doctors who have not been surprised for a long time by bath and post-bath heart attacks and strokes in fairly young people, it is better not to leave the strength in the steam room. There are very clear instructions from doctors: one bath session means 2–4 visits to the steam room for 7–10 minutes. But for some, 3 minutes in the steam room is enough, and for some, even a lot of them. If you feel dizzy, it becomes difficult to breathe, your pulse quickens, pressure appears in your chest, spots appear before your eyes (all this indicates the body is overheating), you should immediately leave the steam room and lie down somewhere cool until your breathing and pulse return to normal.
Bath and unstable pressure
An ordinary person learns about vascular problems, unfortunately, not at an early stage - often only when he comes into the hands of doctors with heart pain or persistent hypertension. Until then, he feels healthy, considers himself as such and behaves accordingly - including lighting up in the bathhouse. And this is an extreme thing in any case, because the vessels are constantly under tension. Even if atherosclerosis or hypertension is still in its early stages, anything can happen. A dry steam room - for example a Finnish sauna - will be safer in this sense.
Bathhouse and street
The steamed man hurries home - I’ll rest, they say, there. Sometimes on public transport or on foot, although even driving in your own car in such a state is a risky business: you can get very cold and get either a banal acute respiratory infection or cystitis, or an exacerbation of chronic diseases. The bath day should end with 15–20 minutes of rest in the locker room (dressing room), which will allow you to completely cool down - only after that you can go outside.
By the way
Physiotherapists call the bathhouse a folk analogue of a physiotherapy room: practically the same thing happens there - they warm up, take a shower, do a massage, and breathe steam. Eucalyptus is a hit among other additives to steam-moisture inhalations; it softens the respiratory tract, has a bactericidal effect, and reduces inflammation. Chamomile has the same effect: it can be brewed either separately or in combination with other herbs - sage, St. John's wort - at the rate of 1 tablespoon per glass of water. Often, water with the addition of fir oil is added to the stones (1 drop per liter of water is enough) - fir steam makes breathing easier. Mint tones, as do citrus aromas - it is no coincidence that they are spoken of as festive.