Bath in winter should pay attention to some questions

It is busy in working day and night, relaxing bath in home has become many people's health plan. With the advent of winter, the weather getting colder, and becomes dry. Medical expert’s advice: winter bathing frequency, time, and water temperature should be some differences from summer:

1: Do not bathe every day
If have a bath every day, grease of the skin surface and normal secretion of parasites on the skin surface of the protective bacterial would wash out, it is easy to hurt the stratum of skin, cause the skin itching, skin resistance will be weakened, people might get sick. Recommendations are as follows: Because the elderly are thinning and atrophy of the skin, it is recommended that have a bath 7 days once. If it is 70 years of old or older, may be extended to 10 days once. If it is dry skin people, it is recommended have a bath 2-3 days once.

2: Bath time not too long
If bath time is too long, it is easier to dehydrate the skin, human fatigue, but also easy to cause cardiac ischemia, hypoxia, leading to coronary artery spasm, thrombosis, and even induce serious arrhythmia and sudden death. In addition, Blood supply which corresponding to the head is reduced, easily lead to cerebral ischemia and accidents.

3: The water temperature should not be too high
High water temperature is too easy to damage the skin's surface oil, resulting in telangiectasia and aggravate dry skin. At the same time, it will increase the burden on the heart. Because the blood vessels of total skin expand remarkably, so that a large number of blood flow to the body skin, and cause cardiac ischemia and hypoxia. If the water temperature is too high, it can increase the blood pressure, heart rate, the burden of cardio-cerebral blood vessel and the blood concentration, especially to those who suffer from coronary heart disease, high blood pressure and other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases of the elderly.
Recommendation: water temperature 24 ℃ to 29 ℃ is appropriate.

4: Have a bath immediately after a meal
It will take a part of blood to the stomach and intestine to help gastrointestinal digestion from the body after each meal. If have a bath immediately after a meal, due to less blood flow to the digestive tract, it will hinder digestion and absorption of food, causing gastrointestinal disease and another because of the brain, heart and other parts of insufficiency; it is likely to cause cardio-cerebral vascular accident. Another hand, exacerbate cardiac ischemia, or even angina or sudden death.
Recommendation: bath time should be two hours after a meal, or about 1 hour before meals better.

Pay attention to some thing before and after bath:
1: Before a bath, should drink a cup of hot water, can add body blood volume.
2: Choose a neutral soap or shower gel, so as not to wash away the sebum, result in more dry skin.
3: Paste body lotion after bathing, you can remain the skin moisture of surface and decrease dry and itchy of skin.
4: It should put on clothes, shoes and hats before going out of the bathroom, in order to prevent the common cold.
5: Usually attention to drink plenty of water, eat more fruits, vegetables, in order to provide adequate moisture the skin, the natural protective effect of sebum on the skin is the best.