Diseases for which Bath is Recommended
Everyone knows that the benefits of a bath for the body are extremely great, but not everyone knows exactly what effect bath procedures have. Yes, of course, they drive out diseases and stimulate the immune system, but this is not the whole list.
During a visit to the steam room, due to profuse sweating, waste and toxins are removed from the body, and the skin is cleansed by opening the pores. The bath also relaxes muscles and tones the body’s main life support systems. Beginners most often think that the benefits of the steam room are only in the treatment of colds.
It’s worth saying right away that the effect of adopting procedures can be radically different:
- if a cold is in its initial stage, then a good steaming of the body will have a positive effect;
- exacerbations cannot be treated with high temperatures, since the effect may be the opposite.
In addition to the common cold and bronchitis, you can fight other diseases with the help of a bath:
- laryngitis;
- chronic runny nose (read: “Is it possible to go to the bathhouse with a runny nose and colds?
- diseases - visiting rules");
- myositis;
- radiculitis;
- arthritis;
- various neurological diseases (also their prevention).
In a Russian bathhouse, benefits and contraindications always go side by side, and therefore it is worth knowing about those diseases for which visiting the bathhouse is strictly prohibited:
- acute inflammatory processes in the body;
- persistently high blood pressure (hypertension);
- heart failure and other diseases of the cardiovascular system;
- circulatory disorders.
Musculoskeletal system
People over 50 years of age note that after just 15 minutes of visiting the bathhouse, its effect on the skeletal system is felt. It happens like this: heated skin warms up the muscles and joints, causing the latter to stop hurting and making themselves felt with discomfort. Therefore, such warming up is actively encouraged by doctors if there are no contraindications and the procedure is carried out correctly.
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Choosing Between Bath and Sauna
The main task of the steam room is to remove toxins, which is only possible when extreme conditions are created for the body to function. Judging by this condition, a bathhouse has greater health benefits, because the air parameters set there can be considered optimal in comparison with a sauna.
Main characteristics of baths and saunas:
- air humidity: bathhouse – 40-60, sauna – 8 percent;
- temperature: bath – 55–70, sauna – up to 110 degrees.
Having considered these parameters, it is worth saying how a bathhouse is beneficial for health in addition to simple warming up:
Humid air has greater thermal conductivity, and therefore in a steam room the human body warms up more deeply, but under less aggressive conditions. This creates a positive impact on
- cardiovascular system;
- The benefits of a steam bath are also enhanced by using a broom. In a sauna, dry heat simply cannot provide such a strong healing effect.
The sauna has a significant drawback: it is impossible to control the temperature with the same precision that is available in a sauna. Accordingly, the question of the advantages of a bath over a sauna (or vice versa) remains open and the choice of establishment is the prerogative of the visitor.
What both types of steam rooms have in common is that you cannot enter them with wet hair, as they conduct thermal energy more intensely and can lead to heat stroke.
How a Bath Can Be Useful and Dangerous for Men
For the male half of humanity, the positive effect of the bath is as follows:
- metabolic processes in the body are stimulated;
- metabolism improves;
- the activity of internal organs increases;
- various infectious pathogens and fungi are destroyed;
- the body's protective functions are restored;
- during sweating, waste and toxins are removed, which significantly reduce the speed of the body;
- Dousing after visiting the steam room is beneficial for the cardiovascular system.
However, there is also harm from the bathhouse if you visit it regularly and carry out the procedures incorrectly.
Under the influence of elevated temperatures, the reproductive function of the body may be temporarily impaired due to the death of sperm, but over time they are restored.
What to Expect from a Bath for Women
The female half will also find more positive aspects in the bathhouse than negative ones. Such procedures relax the nervous system and relieve stress, are an excellent help for losing weight, and cleanse the skin.
And the bathhouse has the same effect on the internal systems of the body as it does for men. Even pregnant women are sometimes recommended to take a bath, as it makes labor easier and reduces labor time by more than 30 percent. However, despite all the benefits of a steam bath, there is also harm from taking it for women.
Airways
In the bathhouse, the volume and natural ventilation of our lungs increase due to the fact that oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide emissions increase. The process is intensified due to the effect of hot moist vapors that we inhale. This saturation is reflected in the mucous membrane, accelerating metabolic processes and promoting increased gas exchange.
In the same way, hot steam acts on the bronchi, clearing them of mucus concentrations. The result is frequent and deep breathing.
Special mention should be made of the fight against the spread of acute respiratory diseases. Most microbes and viruses of the group are not able to withstand high temperatures of vapors, leading to their death.
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Harm from the Bath
- You should not go to the bathhouse for the following reasons:
- acute inflammation in gynecology;
- the period after childbirth and other surgical interventions;
- if there were complications during childbirth;
- in the presence of oncological changes in the body (tumors).
Bath Assortment for Enhancing Utility
Naturally, when visiting a public bath, you must have a towel, sheet, slippers and a wool cap with you. You also need to have a high-quality bath broom and essential oils with you.
A freshly tied broom can only be rinsed in warm water, while a dry one will need to be steamed, but not in boiling water, since the leaves will fall off and there will be no beneficial effect on the body.
There are several features of preparing brooms, paying attention to which you can get an effective product:
- Even oak and birch trees from the nearest forest belt are suitable for knitting a broom yourself. It will be enough to cut off their branches and dry them for a couple of days in a dark place with high air temperature;
- It is important to choose trees that are as far away from transport routes as possible, since their positive qualities can be supplemented by negative ones from all the settled dust, various impurities and carcinogens.
As for essential oils, you can buy them at your nearest pharmacy and pay special attention to juniper and eucalyptus oils. As a standard, essential oil packaging includes instructions that describe all possible ways to use it, including visiting the steam room.
From all over the world
People have long guessed about the beneficial psychological effects of the bathhouse. It is not for nothing that the famous ancient Roman baths resembled palaces or temples rather than utilitarian institutions for washing bodies. In addition to swimming pools with water of varying temperatures and massage rooms, the ancient baths had rooms for physical education, games and even music.
Almost every nation in the world has its own types of baths.
In a Turkish bath (hammam) the temperature is approximately the same as in a sauna - 70–100 degrees. Before the steam room, you need to visit a special room where you can warm up from the inside, treating yourself to aromatic Turkish coffee or tea. The floor in the steam room is heated to ensure uniform temperature throughout the room. Part of the Turkish bath ceremony is a massage with soap foam, the effect of which is not inferior to cosmetic peeling.
Japanese baths can be group or individual. The first - sento - resemble large baths in which several people sit at the same time. The second - ofuro - are large wooden barrels with very hot water. The barrel has a seat that allows a person to plunge into water up to the neck. Since the Japanese like to steam hot, the sessions are quite short, taking only 5 minutes.
The Finnish sauna is a dry air bath. Its peculiarity is the combination of high temperature (under 100 degrees) with low humidity (from 10 to 25%). For many people, breathing hot dry air in a sauna is easier than enduring the high humidity of a Russian bath (75–100%).
In our opinion, the bathhouse is humid, since the air in it is mixed with steam, and the heat is more moderate (45–60 degrees). Due to this, sweat evaporation occurs more slowly. Therefore, even trained people should spend no more than 15 minutes in the steam room.
A traditional Russian bathhouse is a log house with a dressing room and a steam room. A black bathhouse is built with a hole in the roof and a hearth made of heated stones, onto which water must be poured, turning up the heat. Soot and soot in such a bath settle on the walls of the steam room and on the shelves, so you can come out of there blacker than you were before you washed yourself. To steam “white,” you need a stove-heater with a chimney and pipe. But you can also get pleasure and benefit from visiting the city bathhouse.
Benefits of Steam Bath
You cannot overdo it with their use, since in high concentrations they are toxic and dangerous to the human body. It also wouldn’t hurt to consult a doctor before your first visit to the bathhouse, who will give detailed recommendations on the use of essential oils, and then there will definitely be no harm to the body.
If there is no negative impact on the body, you should go to the bathhouse regularly. Only in this case can you live with your physical and mental health in perfect order and harmony. The strength that comes to the visitor in the process of taking the procedures will help him throughout the work week, and if visiting the bathhouse becomes a habit, the effect will be permanent.
It is also worth remembering that the bathhouse is a place for rest and relaxation. Don't turn wellness treatments into drinking. This will not help the body in any way, and the safety of staying in the bathhouse will significantly decrease. It is better to drink herbal tea with honey after leaving the steam room and have a good rest while having a heart-to-heart conversation with friends.
Endocrine system
The benefits of the bath also affect the functioning of the endocrine system. This is reflected in changes in the composition of a number of fluids in the human body and a moderate increase in the number of red blood cells. In addition, the number of leukocytes increases and blood clotting increases, which is explained by an increase in platelets. Sudden sweating in the steam room causes a decrease in salt concentration in the blood and skin.
Positive changes occur in the functioning of the thyroid gland. As a result of anabolic effects, the following processes are observed:
- Improvement of oxidative reactions in tissues.
- Increased protein synthesis.
- The gas and acid-base balance in the blood changes.
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Steam room Benefits and Harm
If possible, a good massage of the steamed body would not hurt, but it should be done by a professional who can relax the muscles as much as possible, and not clog them. Cosmetics have the maximum effect on the skin precisely after leaving the steam room, when all the pores are open.
The article describes in detail the benefits and harms of a steam room in a modern bathhouse, and also discusses the main ways to enhance the healing effect. If you follow the advice, you can achieve maximum benefits for the body and turn the bathhouse into not only a place for relaxation, but also a real medical complex, where treatment will be a pleasure for every patient.
Go to the Bathhouse for Health and we, in turn, can create all the conditions for you so that your holiday in our bathhouse will only be useful for you, your friends and loved ones.
Purification ceremony
Steaming properly is not an easy task. You need to approach this matter thoroughly, without rushing. First, take a warm shower. But you shouldn’t get your head wet - otherwise you can get heatstroke in the steam room. After wiping your body dry, go into the steam room. To prevent your hair from being damaged by hot steam, put a cap on your head or wrap your hair with a towel.
The first entry into the steam room should not last more than 5 minutes. Go there next time no earlier than 10–15 minutes later. Now you can stay there longer, but even experienced bathhouse visitors should not spend more than half an hour in the steam room, otherwise you will overload your heart. In between visits to the steam room, while in the waiting room, it is useful to drink a lot of liquid, restoring the water-salt balance. But under no circumstances should you drink alcohol during the bath procedure - this increases the load on the heart. By the way, you shouldn’t rush to the bathhouse the next day after a stormy party. Under the influence of alcohol, the body already had to experience serious stress on the heart and blood vessels, and in the bathhouse it is also forced to endure temperature stress.
You need to steam while lying down, not sitting, and especially not standing. In a horizontal position, the heat affects the entire body evenly. It’s better to start steaming from the bottom shelf, then you can move higher, to where the heat is stronger.
Immediately after the steam room, it’s good to plunge into a cold plunge pool, or dive into a cool pool, or just stand under an ice-cold shower. However, cooling should be short-lived to avoid getting cold. You need to wash with soap after the final entry into the steam room. It’s a good idea to take scrubs and anti-cellulite massagers with you to the bathhouse. In the bath, their beneficial properties are tripled.
