Is it healthy to take a cold bath?

For most people, if the method is correct, taking a cold bath is good for health. The process of skin contraction by cold is just like doing gymnastics, which can enhance the elasticity of blood vessels and prevent arteriosclerosis. Taking a bath with cold water can stimulate the nervous system, promote metabolism and make the skin soft and elastic. In addition, taking a cold bath also helps to enhance the digestive function, and has a certain auxiliary treatment effect on chronic gastritis, constipation and other diseases.

Taking a cold bath is really good for your health. Through the stimulation of cold water, peripheral blood vessels contract, and part of the blood will flow back to the viscera, increasing the oxygen and nutrient supply to the viscera. Extreme stimulation can exercise the body's immune ability, so as to better resist the invasion of external cold and other disease factors. In addition, alternating hot and cold can enhance skin tension, maintain skin elasticity and slow down skin aging. At the same time, taking a cold bath is also beneficial to exercise and cultivate a person's will quality and endurance, and has a positive effect on psychological influence.

It is good to take a cold bath, but we should pay attention to scientific methods. Pay attention to the following points: starting from summer, we must persist and step by step; Do "warm-up" exercise before each cold shower and rub your skin for a few minutes until you feel red and hot; The water temperature should not be too low, 5℃-25℃ is appropriate, and the time should not be too long, 10- 15 minutes or so, and the longest time should not exceed half an hour. People who don't insist on taking a cold bath since long summer, it's best not to try it easily to avoid catching a cold.

Taking a cold bath also has many taboos:

1. With the age, the physiological functions of the elderly have become lower and lower, and hot and cold may harm the body, so it is not appropriate to wash cold water;

2. Gender, because of their physiological characteristics, women generally do not advocate taking a cold bath, especially during holidays, pregnancy and confinement.

Seasonally, it is hot in summer, and it is common for healthy people to wash cold water, but in autumn and winter, it is up to everyone to see if they are still adapted to cold water.

People should pay great attention to the fact that patients with various basic diseases, including hypertension and hypotension, various joint diseases, heart and lung diseases such as asthma, coronary heart disease and angina pectoris, and even diabetic patients, should not try to take a cold bath easily.

Women should not wash during menstruation and pregnancy, infants and elderly people over 65 years old should not wash, people with poor health and low immunity should not wash, and patients with hypertension, heart disease and sciatica should not wash.

Winter is coming, and the weather is getting colder and colder. Whether to choose a cold water bath is still cautious.