How to use a sauna properly?
How to use a sauna properly? This is the question many sauna enthusiasts ask themselves. The health benefits of using a sauna are many, but in order to sauna in the safest way possible - learn the rules of sauna use, which will make you reap only the benefits of this activity.
Sauna contraindications
(1) Before going to the sauna, carefully read the contraindications to its use. Common contraindications include pregnancy, menstruation, cancer, coronary artery disease, atherosclerosis, diabetes, as well as blood clotting disorders, and non-cardiac conditions. Be sure to check whether your condition, illness or ailment allows you to sauna safely.
2. Approximately 2 hours, up to a maximum of 90 minutes before sauntering, eat your last light meal.
3. leave all jewelry in the locker room, as heated jewelry can cause flare-ups.
4.Before entering the sauna itself, take a shower, not only for hygienic reasons. In this way you will also get rid of cosmetic residues, and to a greater extent allow your skin to breathe. After the shower, lightly dry your body.
(5) Be sure to bring a towel with you to the sauna, where you should sit or lie down so that no part of your body touches the sauna boards.
Sauna cap, or how to use a sauna safely
6. if you feel tired, weak, dizzy, or have a headache after sauntering, there is a good chance that your body has overheated. Sauna cap It also protects the head from strokes, and other unpleasant consequences. Choose hats made of natural material - such as sheep's wool.
Felt hats, unfortunately, often have admixtures of polyester.
Textile-free sauntering
7 Despite the fact that more and more saunas, out of concern for the health of their customers, are promoting a textile-free zone, there are still places where sauna users enter in bathing suits. Most of them are made of polyester - that is, plastic, which emits an unpleasant odor at high temperatures, and adversely affects our bodies, and our skin, even causing flare-ups.
The best practice is to remain naked, but if you feel the need it will be safe to cover yourself with a cotton towel, or a soft sheet.
8. the time of a single session should not exceed 15 minutes.
9.During a stay in the saunarium, it is recommended to have 3 sessions. Each session should consist of warming up, then rinsing the body with lukewarm water, cooling down in turn, and 10-15 minutes of rest. Such sessions strengthen immunity, and harden our body.
10. remember to hydrate. Drink water between sessions. In saunas, you often have the opportunity to buy frozen fruit, which will further hydrate, and cool your body.
By following the above rules, you are assured of safe sauntering.
By doing so, you are ensuring the very health benefits of this practice.