Contents:
- Medical Video: Infrared Sauna Detox: Tips for Max Benefits & Safety, Step by Step Demo
- The day before the sauna
- Approaching the sauna
- When in a sauna
- After the sauna
- Things to note
Medical Video: Infrared Sauna Detox: Tips for Max Benefits & Safety, Step by Step Demo
Although a sauna or steam bath is a treatment that has been popular for a long time, there are still people who still experience burns, heart attacks, and even death. This can occur due to the wrong way to use a sauna.
According to Dr. Edward Group DC, NP, DACBN, DCBCN, DABFM, most burns that occur are caused by accidental touching the heater or other heat sources found in the sauna. Heart attacks often occur because someone who has heart disease experiences a drastic change in temperature, such as being exposed to cold water after leaving the sauna. The normal human body temperature is at 37 ° C and the increase in the body's core temperature to 40.5 ° C is a serious medical emergency. Death can occur if a person experiences extreme heat exposure due to too long being in a sauna.
Therefore, to avoid dangerous risks that can occur when a sauna, it would be better if you follow some of the following sauna tips.
The day before the sauna
On the day before undergoing a sauna, you must follow the following tips:
- If you have a certain medical condition, get a doctor's approval to do a sauna.
- Ensure good hydration for at least three consecutive days before the sauna. This also includes caffeine reduction and electrolyte recovery. Drink sterile water when you wake up and throughout your day on the move. Don't wait until you are thirsty, because that means you have become dehydrated. Two liters of water per day is a good amount. This amount varies depending on where you live and your lifestyle.
- Make sure you sleep well, at least a few nights before your first sauna. If you experience fatigue, it will get worse when the sauna.
- Consumption of healthy oils, such as fish oil, olive oil, coconut oil, and samin oil are good for health. This is needed to protect and build cell membranes, and protect your brain.
- Eat regularly three days before the sauna.
Approaching the sauna
Before entering the sauna, do some of the following preparations:
- Drink electrolyte after waking up on the day you will do a sauna.
- Eat healthy foods at breakfast that contain protein, fat, and carbohydrates.
- Do a sauna a few hours before your time to sleep, because if it's too late you will wake up at night. Although for some people, it will help them sleep.
- Make sure you have enough healthy oil in your body. Healthy fats are good for protecting cell membranes and brain during saunas.
- Don't eat heavy food for 30-60 minutes before doing a sauna.
- Take off all your clothes in the dressing room and wear the towels provided or t-shirts and shorts made of cotton.
- Go to the toilet if needed.
- Wet the body, then dry it. If needed, soak your feet in warm water.
- Weigh your weight before entering the sauna, and pay attention if your weight remains or decreases. If you reduce it means dehydration.
- You can use a sauna cap that can keep your head protected from heat.
When in a sauna
When you do a sauna, you must do the following tips:
- Drink before you thirst.
- Whether lying or sitting, try to keep your feet off the floor, especially if the floor is cold. The contrast temperature is not good for your body when sauna.
- When you sit in a sauna, scratch or press the skin of your arms, legs, stomach and back slowly. This will stimulate your pores to open more during the sauna, so that it can increase circulation on the surface of your body. When you sweat, the poisons in your body will come out naturally.
- Keep the light on. Do not do a sauna in a dark place because it will trigger the parasympathetic nervous system. And that will make you feel faint, especially if you are standing up.
- Focus on breathing. Perform abdominal breathing or full breathing.
- Pay attention to the condition of your body. If you already feel not strong, get out of the sauna.
- If you feel dizzy when standing, stand slowly close to the wall or fence.
- A sauna can be done for a maximum of 20 minutes.
After the sauna
You should contrast the temperature of your body to cold temperatures, with the following rules:
- Shocking your body from heat to cold is a technique that is effective enough to close pores, encourage your blood to return to the core organs, and strengthen your natural defenses.
- This contrast technique is not recommended for those who are doing their sauna for the first time.
- This contrasting technique should not be done for asthmatics and people with heart disease, because this technique will be fatal to them.
- Start contrasting after doing two or three sauna sessions for several weeks.
- Bathing in a cold water bath is the most effective way, and usually in spa places do this too.
Things to note
For cases of chronic diseases, saunas should only be done with the doctor's approval. Saunas must be completely avoided by people who have serious heart disease, serious lung disease, infections, high blood pressure, kidney disease, epilepsy, and abnormalities of the thyroid gland.
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