Recently, many places have ushered in a "quick-frozen" type of cooling. The cold wind on the road also blew the editor's thoughts about the hot springs. After soaking in the hot spring, and then sleeping a warm sleep, no matter how much exhaustion is thrown away, the whole person is resurrected with blood.
There are many benefits for ordinary people, such as accelerating metabolism, eliminating fatigue, improving sleep, activating muscles and bones, beauty and skin care, etc. So for cancer patients, can you often soak in hot springs? Some people say that hyperthermia can kill cancer cells, and is hot springs related to hyperthermia? Some people say that soaking in hot springs accelerates blood circulation and promotes the growth of cancer cells? "Radon hot spring" health, or carcinogenic? What is right or wrong? Puzzle in one piece!
Hot springs are a good health for ordinary people?
Hot springs have a history of thousands of years, and are heated by geothermal heat and gush out of the ground. Soaking in hot springs is indeed a good way for ordinary people to maintain health, and there are many benefits.
Promote metabolism: Soaking in hot springs will make our body temperature rise with the temperature of hot water, speed up the speed of human blood circulation, and promote metabolism in the body.
Relieve fatigue: People will feel muscle fatigue after strenuous exercise, and "soaking in hot springs" has the effect of eliminating fatigue and relieving muscle soreness. Water pressure and warmth make lactic acid (a fatigue substance) more easily excreted in the body.
Relieve muscles and activate blood: Due to the frequent sedentary in the office, many young people have health risks. Coupled with the cold weather in winter, people's activity has also decreased, and it is easy to have symptoms such as blood vein stagnation and poor meridians. At this time, soaking in a hot spring can promote human blood circulation, play a role in relieving muscles and invigorating blood, and can also help alleviate insomnia symptoms.
Detoxification: When soaking in the hot spring, the pores of our skin will open, and the toxins in the body can be excreted through the pores with sweat, which helps to strengthen the physique and improve immunity. "Soaking in hot springs" also helps the human body absorb the mineral elements in the hot springs that can improve the condition of the skin, making the skin more moisturized.
(The above are the benefits of bathing in hot springs for healthy people.) Whether tumor patients can soak in hot springs will be explained in detail in the fourth point below. ）
Do hot springs promote cancer cell growth?
There is a folk saying that hot springs can accelerate blood circulation and promote metabolism, which can promote the growth and spread of cancer cells.
Flipping through the literature found that this blood circulation promotes the growth and metastasis of cancer cells is only in the stage of "speculation", and there has been no clinical medical trial to confirm that hot springs can promote the growth of cancer cells.
Hot springs are like hyperthermia, can kill cancer cells?
There is a folk view that the hot water of hot springs can "burn" cancer cells. This is a kind of "Zhang Guan Li Dai", the view is wrong!
At present, it is more accepted that cancer cells are not tolerant of high temperature conditions, and generally lose their activity at 41 ° C ~ 43 ° C, which corresponds to clinical "hyperthermia".
However, it should be pointed out that the conditions of soaking in hot springs are not equivalent to clinical hyperthermia.
The heat sources of tumor hyperthermia are mostly radiofrequency and microwave.
The heat sources of hyperthermia applications in clinical tumors are mostly radiofrequency and microwave. Achieve the purpose of treatment that can not only cause cancer cells to apoptosis, but also do not damage normal tissues.
Use its physical heat to heat the whole body and locally to achieve an effective therapeutic temperature;
Take advantage of differences in the ability of normal tissue cells and cancer cells to tolerate temperature.
The hot springs are far from reaching the internal temperature of the hyperthermia
It is true that cancer cells are not heat-tolerant, and the water temperature of the hot spring is high, but it does not mean that the temperature in the body is consistent with the temperature of the hot spring. Because the human body naturally regulates the temperature in the body, the body maintains a relatively constant temperature and protects the normal metabolism of internal organs. Therefore, soaking in hot springs is far from being able to "burn" the heat of cancer cells.
Can cancer patients often soak in hot springs?
In fact, the answer to this question can not be generalized, usually, under normal circumstances, some tumor patients in the stable stage, no tumors, and good physique can completely soak in hot springs.
However, patients in the following conditions are recommended to soak less or not to soak in hot springs:
1. Weak cancer patients, such as just radiotherapy and chemotherapy, surgery patients are recommended to soak less in hot springs, which is not related to cancer cells, but soaking in hot springs makes the body consume a lot of energy, cancer patients are weak, can not afford water, sweat loss, more serious patient consumption.
2. Patients with tumor survival are recommended to soak in hot springs less, such people's own physique may be slightly worse than ordinary people, and soaking in hot spring water for a long time can easily cause skin relaxation, physical exertion, etc., but it is not necessary to soak in hot springs.
3. Patients with acute diseases and infectious diseases, such as acute pneumonia, acute bronchitis, acute tonsil inflammation, acute otitis media or acute cold with fever, etc., are best not to soak in hot springs.
4. Diabetic patients are best not to or less soak in hot springs, because the age of tumor patients is generally older, cancer is also easy to be accompanied by symptoms such as diabetes, such people due to high water temperature can make their injected insulin absorption accelerate, long-term body overheating ability to consume too fast, the heart increases the burden, it is easy to have accidents.
5. Cancer patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The high temperature of the hot spring can make the human body prone to sweating, rapid heartbeat, and increased oxygen consumption of the heart. At the same time, due to the increase in human body temperature when soaking in hot springs, the temperature decreases after the water, one hot and one cold, causing blood vessels to expand and contract in a short period of time, which are the predisposing factors that cause stroke and myocardial infarction.
6. Cancer patients with allergic dermatitis. The minerals and trace elements in hot springs have certain beauty and skin care effects, and if used properly, hot springs can also treat skin lesions. However, it should be noted that people with skin wounds, ulceration or serious skin infections, mold infections such as Hong Kong feet, eczema patients are not suitable for hot springs, because this will not only pollute the water quality, but also worsen the wound.
7. Yin deficiency fire wang cancer patients should soak less in hot springs.
"Radon hot spring" health, or carcinogenic?
China is a magical place. On the one hand, many people are scared to death when they hear radiation, afraid of microwave ovens, afraid of WIFI, afraid of high-voltage wires (by the way, these are non-ionizing radiation, and do not cause cancer). But on the other hand, he ran to the radon hot spring for health.
Perhaps because radon element is rare, "radon + hot spring" looks very compelling, the cold of winter (radon) day, warm spring water, a yin and a yang, a cold and a hot, just look at the name to feel the yin and aphrodisiac.
But it's all marketing!
Radon is one of the most famous carcinogens in nature! The World Health Organization has long designated it as a First Class Carcinogen!
Radon hot springs, how dangerous is it? It depends on the specific concentration. It is likely that many of them are false propaganda, and the radon content is not high, which is an ordinary hot spring. It doesn't matter if you take a dip in this situation. However, if the radon concentration is higher, it is recommended not to go. Cherish life, everyone has a responsibility!
Write at the end
The temperature plummeted, the winter without hot springs is incomplete, and some tumor patients who are in a stable stage, no tumors and have better physique can completely soak in hot springs. However, tumor patients who survive with tumors, are relatively weak, or have cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, it is recommended to soak less or do not soak in hot springs.