Who can't use a foot bath?

Nowadays, more and more friends are using foot baths, and many families have at least one foot bath. Many people also sell them to their family members for use. They all know that foot baths are easy to use and have health benefits, but few people know that some people are not suitable for using foot baths. If you are interested in buying a foot bath as a gift for the elderly at this stage, you might as well take a look at this to avoid wasting money by finding out after purchase that the foot bath is not suitable for you. Now let’s take a look at who is not suitable for using a foot bath.

Nowadays, foot baths have many functions, such as infrared, magnet, ozone sterilization and other functions, which will have some radiation to a greater or lesser extent. These radiations will not have any effect on ordinary people, but it is different for pregnant women. For the health of your baby and yourself, it is best to use a wooden basin to soak your feet. Similarly, foot bathing will speed up blood circulation in the lower limbs. However, taking a foot bath if you have wounds on your feet will affect the recovery of the wound.

Some diabetic patients will have lesions in the nerve endings and blood vessels in their feet, which will reduce their perception and make them often unable to feel external stimuli. When they use an ordinary basin for a foot bath, they must have someone else test the water temperature because they cannot feel that the water is too hot. By the time they feel it, their feet have already been scalded. Therefore, it is best to use a foot bath that can automatically set and display the temperature to avoid the risk of burns.

As we mentioned before, foot bath will accelerate blood circulation in the lower limbs of the body, causing blood to flow from the upper limbs to the lower limbs faster. At this time, patients with severe heart and brain diseases will suffer from heart failure, coma and other symptoms due to insufficient blood supply to the upper limbs. There is no problem in using a foot bath for a short time, but it is not advisable to use the foot bath for too long. For this group of people, it is generally appropriate to use the foot bath for 15 minutes.

Some acupoints on the foot cannot be heavily massaged during pregnancy. However, most high-quality foot bath brands on the market now have massage functions. If some female friends use foot baths improperly, it may cause miscarriage. It is not suitable to soak your feet during menstruation, because soaking your feet will speed up blood circulation in the lower limbs of the body. Soaking your feet during menstruation will not only fail to have a health-care effect, but will increase the amount of menstruation and affect the normal operation of the endocrine system.