Can I take a bath during my period?

Menstruation is a special physiological period for women. If you do not take care of your body during menstruation, it may cause some serious disease symptoms over time. So you must pay special attention. Taking a bath is a good way to maintain health and it can be very helpful to the body. So can I take a bath during my period? Today we will give you a detailed introduction.

Bathing helps blood circulation in the body and is very effective in relieving menstrual discomfort. In addition, bacteria in the genitals multiply faster than usual during menstruation. If you do not pay attention to cleaning in time, the sweat and menstrual blood on your body will mix, which is not only unhygienic but also easily cause many diseases.

However, the elders’ taboo about taking a bath during menstruation is not completely unreasonable. What they are actually targeting is the traditional tub bath. You need to maintain body hygiene during menstruation, but you should try to avoid taking baths in a tub. Because the uterine cavity, cervix, and vagina have all undergone a moderate trauma during the menstrual period, the local protective barrier of the reproductive tract is temporarily destroyed. If you take a tub bath at this time, the bacteria in the sewage will ascend to the uterine cavity through the vagina and cause infection. In severe cases, it will cause various uterine diseases, so a tub bath is absolutely not advisable.

Therefore, the best way to bathe during menstruation is to take a shower. If you are on a business trip and do not have the conditions to take a shower, you can use a sponge bath, but you must ensure that you have a special towel and a special bathtub. In addition, the following details should be paid attention to when showering:

1. During menstruation, you should keep warm when taking a bath and avoid taking cold showers. In recent years, the theory of cold water shower for health preservation has become popular, so many women have also joined the ranks of cold water showers and have persisted in doing so all year round. Little do people know that women’s body functions are different from men’s, and taking cold showers can be fatal to women!

If you take a cold shower during menstruation, the blood vessels in the uterus and pelvis will contract excessively, causing dysmenorrhea, oligomenorrhea or amenorrhea. Many bacteria will also enter the vagina and cause vaginitis, which can lead to infertility in severe cases. Therefore, women should insist on not taking cold showers during menstruation. In addition to the menstrual period, women should also avoid taking cold showers in normal seasons, otherwise it is easy for women to catch a cold on their backs, which can cause a series of symptoms such as increased heart rate, high blood pressure, nervous tension, etc. Not only can it not help wash away fatigue from a day's work, it can also easily cause a cold.

2. In the cold winter, don't keep too warm. Taking a nice hot bath in winter is a pleasant thing, but if the water temperature is too high, it will not only cause the capillaries to dilate, aggravating the dryness of the skin, but also because the blood vessels in the skin all over the body dilate, a large amount of blood will flow to the skin all over the body, causing the heart to overload and resulting in hypoxia. At the same time, cleaning the genitals at high temperatures will destroy the acid-base balance of the genitals, creating opportunities for bacteria to enter the vagina, causing or aggravating genital itching.

The most suitable water temperature for bathing is: 24℃ ~ 29℃ in normal seasons, and 37℃ ~ 42℃ in winter, which is about 3℃ higher than human body temperature. Moreover, when bathing in winter, you should start from the feet, because the skin temperature in winter is lower than the bath water temperature. Let the feet, known as the "second heart", sense the water temperature first, which can reduce the impact of the water temperature on the heart. In addition, it is best not to take a bath for more than 15 minutes to avoid excessive washing that removes body oils and causes skin itching.

The above is the answer to the question of whether you can take a bath during menstruation. After knowing this knowledge, you must pay special attention to it in your future life. Even some better maintenance methods must be used correctly to achieve better maintenance results. On the contrary, not only will it not have a good maintenance effect, it may also cause the occurrence of diseases.