How to properly prepare a bath and how to visit a bath with a steam room: rules for visiting a bath
High temperature and humidity, close to extreme, can play a trick on brave newcomers who dare to show their daring prowess and stay in the steam room longer than the default time. In order to avoid unforeseen health complications, read the rules for visiting the steam room and learn how to prepare a Russian bath in accordance with the regulated standards.
How to properly prepare a steam room in a Russian bath
The optimal parameters and modes for preparing a steam room in a bath are as follows.
Optimum temperature: +55…+60 °С.
Maximum temperature: 70 °C.
Humidity: 80-90%.
Number of visits: 3-4.
Duration: 5-7 minutes.
Rest time: 10-15 minutes.
So that the air does not contain the vapors of many bodies, it must be periodically cleaned and heated. To do this, it is necessary to "give" water to the hot stones in portions. For cleaning: 20-30 times 400-600 g each, depending on the power of the oven with the window open. For warming up: 10-20 times 200-400 g with the window closed.
Now that you know how to properly prepare a bath, do not neglect the optimal parameters, because this is a guarantee that the steam room will benefit the body, and not vice versa, cause heat stroke or other health problems.
How to visit a Russian bath with a steam room
The bath has its own laws, and they must be strictly observed.
The main rule of visiting a Russian bath is to accustom yourself to the bath heat gradually and carefully.
You should not go to the steam room after a hearty meal: this is an unnecessary burden on the heart.
Free the intestines as much as possible (for those who go to the steam room solely for medicinal purposes or for general recovery, this procedure should be carried out with the help of an enema, laxatives or herbs).
Do not drink alcohol before visiting the bath.
One of the rules on how to properly visit the bath says: in case of fatigue, do not rush to the bath shelves. It is necessary to do physical exercises or dip your feet in a basin of warm water and gradually add hotter water over 10-15 minutes.
Before the steam room, it is recommended to take a warm shower, but without soap, it removes the protective layer, the skin becomes dry, and the heat and sweat irritate it. People with vegetative disorders and children should warm their feet for 5 minutes in a bath with a water temperature of +40… +45 ° C, and then dry them with a towel so that the adaptation mechanisms turn on sequentially and the stressful transition from one temperature regime to another is gradual.
It is better to bathe dry, so after a shower you need to dry yourself thoroughly: moisture on the body inhibits sweating. For the same reason, during the procedure itself, you must constantly wipe the sweat.
It is better to lie down in the steam room than to sit. Then the heat covers the body evenly, the muscles are relaxed, which means that they can be thoroughly steamed. It is necessary first to “process" the torso with brooms, then the arms and legs. No need to whip, it is enough to fan yourself, driving fresh hot steam to the body.
Stay in the steam room until the "first drop of sweat from the nose."
Changing temperatures is gymnastics for our blood vessels, but ice water after a steam room is recommended only for healthy and trained people. The rest is recommended a slow, gradual cooling in the dressing room.
If you feel well after the steam room, you need to take a cold shower (5-10 seconds), you can plunge into a cold pool or an ice hole. Then relax, drink a little (about a glass) of juice, herbal tea, kvass or mineral water and go to steam again.
Each subsequent entry into the steam room should not exceed the previous one in time.
It is strongly not recommended to drink beer in the bath, and even more so other alcoholic beverages, only hot tea and herbal infusions, decoctions. Naturally, you should not eat, just leaving the steam room.
It is better to rest after the bath lying down (for those who are worried about back pain, it is a must).
Unfortunately, there are contraindications for visiting the bath. According to doctors, the bath is not for everyone. You can not bathe in case of exacerbation of chronic diseases, elevated body temperature, hypertension, brain injury, peptic ulcer, heart disease, extensive inflammatory processes on the skin.
Now that you know how to properly visit a sauna with a steam room, take care of the necessary attributes. The outfit of the bather is a cap (felt or woolen); slippers; mittens (felt or wool); sheet; bedding; Terry towel); broom (birch, oak, juniper, eucalyptus); thermos with hot tea; washcloth, shampoo, soap; clean linen, comb.