What is the use?
“The procedures have a positive effect on the effects of stress, fatigue, and improve sleep,” says Mehman Mammadov, an expert of the National Health League, MD, cardiologist. – In the bath, the skin is cleansed of bacteria, this contributes to the renewal of the epidermis. New cells contain up to 70% moisture, while keratinized ones – about 10%. In the bath, blood vessels, especially small ones, dilate. This means that blood circulation improves, this leads to an increase in tissue nutrition. The muscles relax, the circulation of the inter-articular fluid increases. That is why the bath is useful for diseases of the musculoskeletal system, including the joints.
There is an opinion that thermal procedures help to cleanse the body of toxins and toxins. How can this happen? The mechanics are as follows. Sweat glands on our body – from 2 to 5 million, on the palm and sole of 1 square centimeter there are about 400. In the bath, sweat glands remove moisture through the skin with the same intensity as the kidneys. In one visit, a person loses from 500 to 1500 ml of fluid. It contains toxic substances.
When the steam room is contraindicated
Fever is a reason to refuse to go to the bathhouse. Going to a steam room in a similar state is like putting a hot pie in a hot oven. Or if the cold does not go away within 10-14 days and is accompanied by a temperature of 37,2-37,3 degrees. It is more useful and safer to soar your feet in this case. During this procedure, the vessels dilate, this has a positive effect on the condition of the lungs and respiratory tract.
Contraindications include exacerbation of chronic diseases of the lungs and bronchi, bronchial asthma, acute infections, severe liver disease, exacerbation of peptic ulcer disease, severe diabetes mellitus, thyroid dysfunction, glaucoma, epilepsy.
It is necessary to refrain from visiting the bath in the crisis course of hypertension (with an increase in pressure up to 200 mm Hg), coronary heart disease, severe vascular atherosclerosis, chronic heart failure, severe arrhythmia, with thrombosis or a tendency to bleeding. People over 70 years old and those who do not tolerate temperature and humidity changes should not go to the steam room.