Habits make or break a person... just like good habits enhance your personality, bad habits harm your personality as well as your health. Especially bad habits related to health often prove fatal for a person, hence it is important to control such habits in time.
In this article, we are talking about one such habit, which proves to be harmful to health to a great extent. Many people have the habit of bathing at night and without knowing and understanding its harm, they keep doing so. This habit is harmful to digestion and heart health. Therefore, in this article we are telling you in detail about the disadvantages of bathing at night.
We talked to Lucknow's General Physician Brijendra Singh about this and are sharing the information received from him with you here.
Health problems increase due to an imbalance in body temperature.
Most health-related problems arise due to an imbalance in body temperature while bathing at night promotes this imbalance. When you take a bath at night, the body temperature suddenly drops which can prove to be directly harmful to health. Along with common problems like cold and fever, it can prove fatal for all the body parts. Let us know in detail about the harmful effects of bathing at night.
Risk of heart problems
When body temperature drops due to bathing at night, it also affects blood circulation and heart rate. In such a situation, the risk of cardiac arrest and other heart-related problems increases. Therefore, people who have heart problems should avoid bathing, especially at night.
Is harmful to digestion
Night time is the best time to digest the food taken during the day when the digestive system gets full opportunity to do its work. But when you take a bath at night, the digestive fire slows down due to the cooling of the body. In such a situation, after bathing at night, the digestive system has to work harder to digest the food. Therefore, bathing at night can also weaken digestion.
Affects metabolism
The habit of bathing at night also affects the metabolism, due to which the metabolism slows down. Slowing of metabolism can cause problems with digestion as well as weight gain. Therefore, if you are aiming to lose weight, then it will prove beneficial for you to give up the habit of bathing at night.
At the same time, the negative effect on metabolism due to bathing at night can also cause hormonal imbalance in the body. Therefore, if you have thyroid or other problems related to hormonal imbalance, then you should avoid bathing at night.
Sleep may be disturbed
People often like to take a bath at night because they feel that it will help them sleep better. Whereas if health experts are to be believed, this habit disturbs sleep. Actually, before falling asleep at night, the nervous system starts coming into a comfortable state. But when you take a bath, these nerves become awake and in such a situation you do not feel like sleeping.
Joint pain and swelling
Bathing at night can also cause pain and swelling in joints. Therefore, people who suffer from joint pain should avoid bathing especially at night.
This is how we can save ourselves
If you look at it, after returning home in the evening, people like to take a bath to clean their bodies. In such a situation, to avoid the harm caused by this, it would be better that you take a bath 2 to 3 hours before going to dinner and bed. At the same time, if the outside temperature is very low, then you can also use a sponge to clean the body. For this, soak the towel in hot water and clean your body with it.
In this way, you can avoid the possible harm caused by bathing at night.
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