You probably like to go to the bathhouse? Do you know what benefit and harm it can bring? Then from this article you can learn a lot of useful and interesting things for yourself … Bath has long been considered a means of getting rid of many ailments, cleansing the body, restoring strength. After going to the bathhouse, we are filled with strength, thoughts become clear, and life is good! So, first, let's answer the question, why is the bath so valuable and beneficial for our health?
The benefits of the bath
With the help of hot steam, you can cleanse the skin of old cells, stimulate the secretion of sweat and sebaceous glands. With sweat, toxins and toxins, excess lactic acid come out.
The mucous membranes of the respiratory tract are also exposed to intense heat in the bath.
The bath brings invaluable benefits to the human cardiovascular system: blood easily moves through the veins and arteries, this contributes to the improvement of metabolic processes in cells, more active absorption of oxygen by tissues and the elimination of stagnant processes.
With the help of bath procedures, the acidity of gastric juice is reduced and digestion is improved. And massage, contrast baths and the use of a broom perfectly relieve nervous tension. So after a busy week of work, go to the steam bath!
The bath will be especially useful for those who lead a sedentary lifestyle. After a bath in the blood, the number of leukocytes increases, which are actively involved in the body's immune defense.
The bath will also help improve the psychological state of a person. With the help of the sauna heat, muscles are relaxed, the feeling of overwork is relieved, and vital activity is restored.
If you have a cold, which is also accompanied by a cough and a runny nose, then the steam room will be a salvation for you - there you can take the path of recovery. After several sessions in the steam room, you can easily recover and recover even from long holidays. Staying in a bath promotes vasodilation, and a pale face will acquire a slight blush.
Do you want to lose weight? Go to the bathhouse! In the steam room, you can lose up to one and a half liters of fluid from the body and get rid of excess body fat. But do not overdo it in this matter to prevent weakness, exhaustion and dehydration.
How to visit the bathhouse correctly?
Remember:
do not go to the bathhouse on a full or empty stomach, or after drinking alcohol. Remove jewelry from yourself, as the hot air can heat them up and burn your skin.
Take with you:
loofah, broom, large terry towel, scented toilet soaps, shampoo. The washcloth should be hard and such that it is convenient to soap it. Washcloths made from natural materials are perfect: loofah fruits, linden bast, fabric or sponge.
You can also take potions that can flavor the bath air and be beneficial to health. It can be infusions or decoctions of thyme, linden flowers, mint, oregano, chamomile, St. John's wort, as well as bread kvass - to pour on hot stones. By the way, during breaks after the steam room you can drink cool kvass, tea or mineral water.
How to steam in a bath correctly?
It is necessary to get used to the sauna heat gradually. And before visiting the steam room, it is recommended to lightly rinse yourself with warm water without getting your head wet.
After you splash water and enter the steam room, dry yourself with a towel, as moisture will only delay perspiration. In order not to cause overheating of the head, put on a special woolen hat for the bath.
As soon as you start sweating profusely in the steam room, it will be better to lie down on a shelf so that your body can receive heat evenly, and if you are not prepared for extreme heat, start getting used to it from the lower shelves. There is no need to set records, the most important thing is to feel good about it.
After your body warms up and you sweat well for 8-10 minutes, leave the steam room, rinse with water and rest for 5-7 minutes.
Then you can take a steam bath, putting the heat on the stones with water, and disperse the steam throughout the steam room with a damp broom. After that, lightly pat the body with a broom, then on one side, then on the other. By the way, how to choose the right broom for a bath and how to use it correctly is also an important issue and you need to approach it thoroughly.
Repeat the procedure until you can stay in the steam room. After that, go out and cool your body in a cool pool, if available, under the shower, or you can wipe yourself off with snow. But don't give yourself a chill.
The procedure with a broom is repeated three times, it is strictly forbidden to drink alcohol. After all, the heart and blood vessels are already loaded and alcohol will be inappropriate here. Try to make your stay in the bathhouse pleasant and useful to the maximum, so that the bathhouse will make your health strong and not be able to harm you.
Bath contraindications and harm
Despite the fact that the bath has such a beneficial effect on the human body, it also has contraindications - harm for the body. It can harm those who have various tumors, oncological diseases, cardiovascular diseases, stroke or heart attacks, peptic ulcer disease, inflammatory processes on the skin, vascular sclerosis, acute ear and eye diseases, epilepsy, tuberculosis. Even if there is even the slightest suspicion of these diseases, you should not risk it and go into the steam room. One can only warm up in it the next day, as the bathhouse was heated.
Do not go to the bathhouse after a hearty meal, it is better to postpone the meal for later. So the stress on the heart may be unnecessary. But the hungry shouldn't go there either. Refresh with fruits or vegetables shortly before going to the sauna.
As for pregnant women
then they should avoid any kind of overheating altogether, such as a sauna, hot tub, steam room, or being outdoors in hot weather. Why? Because the body temperature of the mother rises, and, accordingly, the body temperature of the fetus, and this is fraught with disruption of metabolic processes and the effect on its central nervous system.
And finally: visit the bathhouse on a certain day of the week and do not forget to keep yourself in shape, so that the very stay in the bath will bring only pleasure and benefit!
