Since ancient times, it was customary to go to steam, warm up and wash in a bathhouse once a week. There was consistency, there was habit and a kind of “bath hardening”. Now you can often hear that the soap kingdom has become some kind of wrong place. Often after a bath we feel bad, a variety of ailments arise, headaches, nausea, and so on.
The causes of poor health are varied and the bathhouse, heat, steam and hot water are not always to blame. But there is no need to treat bath procedures as innocent entertainment.
This is not the first time I have said that the bathhouse can severely punish reckless behavior, unnecessary daring and the desire to set records. The bathhouse must be respected and taken seriously. Any mistakes are immediately punished with poor health.
Why does it feel bad after a bath and what ailments are possible?
Not everyone can stay in a closed, hot and humid room for a long time. Injecting heat and steam is nothing more than creating high temperatures and humidity. This is what provokes an increase in blood pressure, shortness of breath and weakness.
Even “super-seasoned” bathhouse attendants go out to rest, cool down, douse themselves with cool water, bathe in sauna fonts, and plunge into the coolness of the river.
Man is created from flesh and blood, our body has a limit to its capabilities. You should not try to set records for staying on a bath shelf. The first law of the bath is the alternation of heat and cold, mandatory contrasting water procedures.
Presence of cardiovascular diseases
After a sauna or steam bath, a headache may also occur for the reason that a person has very specific cardiovascular diseases. In general, such people are strictly prohibited from being in a room with very high temperatures. The fact is that the heat causes their blood vessels to expand at an accelerated pace. Signs of malaise appear especially often when a person moves into a room where the temperature is much lower. Or even go out into the fresh air. For example, in winter. Then the vessels begin to contract - and this phenomenon is called spasm. Then not only the head may hurt, but also the heart, dizziness or nausea may appear.
What to do: stop all bath procedures and take the necessary medications; in especially severe cases, call an ambulance. If space allows, make a hammam in your bathhouse - the temperature in a Turkish bath is much lower, and you can enjoy the steam without much risk to your health.
Red spots on the skin
The appearance of red spots on the skin during or after a bath is a normal reaction of the body. Blood moves in the body not only through veins and arteries. Faithful assistants of the circulatory system, capillaries play an important role.
Capillaries form a huge subcutaneous mesh that covers every part of our body. In ordinary, everyday life, we do not even notice the enormous work that capillaries perform, delivering blood to the most secluded corners.
As soon as there is an increase in body temperature, blood flow to the capillaries increases. In some areas of the skin there are more capillaries, which is why redness occurs.
When hovering with a broom in normal mode, the blood vessels are stimulated, blood flows faster, which is why the skin turns red. But, if you hit the body with a broom with all your strength and stupidity, you get real blood stains and even bruises. The capillaries are injured and, as a result, simply burst.
Red spots on the skin during and after a bath are not at all dangerous.
The redness will go away as soon as the body temperature begins to subside, blood flow decreases, and heart contractions return to normal. How to do this?
You need to douse yourself with cool water, sit and relax in the dressing room, drink some water.
Heatstroke
The human body is very capricious and functions normally only under certain specific loads. And as soon as he is “forced” to leave his comfort zone, he responds to this with his “dissatisfaction.” Headache is one such reaction.
The fact is that high temperature causes some processes to proceed at an accelerated pace, which causes a number of negative reactions. Typically, heat stroke should be considered when a person not only has a headache, but also has rapid breathing, reddened skin, and an elevated temperature.
What to do: the person urgently needs to be taken out into fresh air, and next time the problem can be avoided by gradually increasing the temperature in the steam room.
Redness of the eyes
Most often, bathing beginners encounter redness in the whites of their eyes. A microscopic red capillary network appears in the corner of the eye. This is already a serious sign of deterioration in well-being.
Most often this happens in people prone to high blood pressure and newcomers to the bathing kingdom.
Not everyone can handle high bath temperatures. If you just get carried away in the steam room, sit on the top shelf longer than the allotted time, your eyes will turn red.
To avoid such troubles, it is necessary not only to reduce the time you enter the steam room, but also be sure to monitor the time you spend in it. A bath cap is necessary to protect your head from overheating.
You need to go out to rest more often, be sure to douse yourself with cool water and drink plenty of fluids.
Reflexology. What is this? How can you use it to restore your sense of smell?
Doctors classify reflexology as physiotherapy.
It improves blood supply, innervation, lymphatic drainage, and promotes well-being. With the help of reflexology, you can restore your sense of smell. This is not a new treatment method; it has been used before. Reflexology helps well in the treatment of allergic rhinitis and even infectious rhinitis. Acupuncture - placement of needles, can be combined with cauterization. Internal organs on the surface of the skin have their own projections, which are called miraculous meridians. The doctor acts on the biologically active points of a certain zone, as a result of which microcirculation and lymph flow improve, swelling is eliminated, and the sense of smell improves. By restoring the circulation of energy according to ancient Chinese teachings, we restore health. Information for you was prepared by: neurologist Lyudmila Vasilievna Lebedeva, reflexologist. Conducts receptions in the clinic building on Novoslobodskaya.
Dark circles and darkening in the eyes
There are several reasons for the appearance of dark circles and darkening in the eyes:
- When there is a pressure difference between the upper torso and the lower
- Ailments can be triggered by a difference in blood pressure in the body and atmospheric pressure - the body does not have time to rebuild and adapt to the bath climate
- Blood did not reach the brain in the required quantity, it did not receive the necessary nutrition
- High bath temperatures, stuffy room, stale air
Rest in a ventilated, cool room, drinking plenty of fluids and sweet candy will help you cope with the illness.
It is advisable to lie down to rest, placing a damp, cool towel on your head.
Sexual contact
Yes, often in a bathhouse a man and a woman can become intimate. The situation is conducive to this. And, essentially, there is nothing wrong with this. Except for one fact: the price to pay for the double load on the body is a headache, a sharp loss of strength, and severe dehydration. Ultimately, the heart suffers. And you may not even suspect it...
What to do: stop sexual intercourse and go out into the fresh air, take a pain reliever.
Feeling sick in the bath
The feeling of nausea is far from an unpleasant sensation; I encountered such a problem twice:
- I went to the bathhouse on an empty stomach
- When I got burned in the bathhouse
We can deduce the law of the appearance of nausea in a bathhouse - it occurs when there is insufficient blood supply to the brain, low blood hemoglobin, and poisoning with toxic carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide (for example, from smoking).
In the hot sauna kingdom, the following happens: the blood vessels of the brain expand when exposed to heat, and as a result, the pressure decreases.
There is a shortage of red blood cells in the circulating blood volume; in other words, the brain lacks oxygen supply. The body begins to save itself - systolic pressure rises.
This is the upper pressure indicator - the force of blood pushing out by the heart. The heart begins to contract more strongly, and the level of blood ejected into the arteries increases. Nausea and dizziness appear.
To avoid such troubles, you need to maintain the temperature in the bathhouse and not overheat. And before the bath you need to eat lightly and, of course, not smoke.
Well, I wrote in a separate article why people get burned out in the bathhouse and how to prevent such mistakes. Follow the link and get acquainted with my sad story, as well as what to do in such cases.
Providing first aid for illnesses
If you have a headache after a bath or serious signs of illness appear, what should you do in this case?
First of all, it is not recommended to go outside quickly, especially in winter. A sharp change in temperature can aggravate a person’s condition.
It is enough to lie down for 15 minutes in a well-ventilated room, placing a small pillow under your feet. This helps to quickly normalize blood pressure.
To relieve headaches, you can take painkillers - Nurofen, Citramon or No-shpu.
Medicinal herbs also help relieve pain. The following compositions provide a similar effect:
- St. John's wort decoction. Steam 1 tbsp in a glass of boiling water. l. herbs and leave for a quarter of an hour. The warm decoction is consumed after straining.
- Infusion of lemon balm or mint. 1 tbsp. l. pour a glass of boiling water over the herbs and leave for 10 minutes. The infusion is filtered and consumed warm.
- Decoction of elderberry leaves. For 1 tbsp. l. herbs take 1 cup of boiling water, leave for 25 minutes. It should be consumed strained with the addition of 1 tsp. honey
For hypertension, it is recommended to take herbal teas from chamomile and motherwort flowers; for hypotension, it is recommended to take herbal teas from the leaves of nettle, black currant and burdock.
To enhance the taste characteristics of herbal teas, you can add a teaspoon of honey to them.
When visiting a bathhouse, it is recommended to drink up to a liter of warm herbal tea, then sudden changes in temperature will not have a negative effect on the human body.
We recommend reading the article about healthy drinks when visiting a bathhouse.
Dizzy in the bath
Dizziness occurs for several reasons:
- Blood sugar dropped sharply
- Severe overheating of the brain
- A sharp outflow of blood from the brain
If you feel dizzy in the bathhouse, this is a sure signal that it’s time to end the pleasant procedures. You need to rest in a cool room, cool your overheated body, wipe yourself dry, change clothes and go home to drink tea!
You should not neglect alarming symptoms, because the body itself sends warnings about poor health. If you do not listen to such signals, then more serious consequences are possible, for example, loss of consciousness, fainting.
Lack of oxygen
There are other factors that can cause headaches after visiting a bathhouse, even in absolutely healthy people. These include, first of all, the lack of oxygen in the air. A heated stove actively consumes it, which is very noticeable in such a small room as a steam room. That is why you need to visit only those baths that are equipped with high-quality ventilation. These include our sauna in St. Petersburg.
Another reason that can lead to headaches is the presence of carbon monoxide in the steam room atmosphere. It disappears only when the wood is completely burned out. That is why you should always wait until the flame goes out completely, and remove the smoldering coals from the firebox, put them in a bucket and take them out of the room to extinguish them.
