For most men, going to the bath means that they will rest, relax and improve their health. Unfortunately, this is not for everyone so. There are diseases in which a trip to a bath is contraindicated, since the consequences can be very unpleasant.
Prostatitis and bath are perfectly combined. Visiting it, doctors recommend for diseases of the pelvic organs, as it has a beneficial effect on the body. With complex treatment of medicinal products, a trip to the bath will improve their effect.
When hiking in the steam room, you must follow all the rules and nuances to achieve a healing effect.
Heat has various useful properties:
- favorably affects muscles, thermal baths relieve fatigue,
- eliminates spasms,
- improves blood circulation throughout the body and organ,
- increases immunity,
- prevents congestion in veins.
Venous congestion is one of the causes of disorders in the prostate gland.
It is not worth it to visit the bath with prostatitis alone, it is better to consult a urologist and he will give full recommendations for her visit. Recommendations depend on the variety of prostatitis and the causes that caused it, as well as individual characteristics of the body.
Benefits and harms
Earlier doctors forbade visiting of steam rooms, saunas and baths for men who had a prostatitis. To date, there is no such ban, and visiting such places is one of the components of treatment.
When visiting baths it is customary to steam with brooms from birch or oak, but doctors recommend to replace them with aspen. Scientists have proved that aspen has a beneficial effect on the body. A good remedy in the steam room is a broom collected from medicinal herbs( lavender, mint, yarrow, sage), it can be purchased at a pharmacy or made by yourself. These herbs have a beneficial effect on the body, have analgesic properties and reduce inflammation.
The bath with prostatitis does not pose a health threat, however, in case of acute disease and during exacerbation, do not go to the therma.
It is not recommended to sharply lower the temperature by water procedures and other means, because hypothermia is unacceptable during illness. You can begin hardening only after a complete cure for this ailment.
Closely monitor the temperature in the steam room, overheating is just as unacceptable as overcooling. A long stay in a strongly heated room can provoke swelling and weaken the function of the male genital organs. Weakening of the function is possible, even in healthy men.
Treatment of
Doctors of urologists recommend an approximate scheme for visiting saunas:
- It is recommended to plan a visit in such a way that in a month there are no more than two times with an equal rest interval. The visits to the steam room are short-term( before the appearance of the first sweat) no more than three times. After each exit from the steam room you need to wash yourself with warm water to remove sweat.
- After a month, the number of visits is increased to five. All other recommendations remain the same.
- After a while, a bath is allowed twice a week. The number of visits to the steam room remains the same, but the residence time is 10 minutes.
A good effect of visiting steam rooms and saunas can be achieved only in conjunction with drug treatment. Proper complex treatment will allow a man to get rid of prostatitis.
The doctor, depending on the individual characteristics of the body and the disease, adjusts the scheme and procedures for visiting paired. It should be remembered that you can not soar and overheat.
Recommendations
When you visit a bath you should observe some rules:
- You can not enter the steam room with a wet head and without a special headdress.
- It is worth stopping the visit if symptoms such as pain and discomfort in the inguinal area, burning in the perineum when urinating, frequent trips to the toilet, full bladder sensation appear.
- You should inform your doctor about the symptoms.
- The use of alcoholic drinks during health visits to bathhouses should be replaced with herbal teas from rose hips, mint and chamomile with honey. Also, drinking alcohol is unacceptable throughout the treatment of the disease.
- It is not necessary to make decisions about visiting the bath with prostatitis alone or on the advice of friends. To steam in a bath it is possible only under the certain scheme which will be recommended by the urologist after results of ultrasonic inspection and delivery of analyzes.
