They asked about the bath for pregnant women. Before I had time to answer, they immediately remembered the wooden sidewalks in Ancient Russia and the bathhouse three times a week, from which everyone gave birth to 10 children at once.
Now I will explain everything in science, but first I will remind you of the stories that my generation still managed to hear from great-grandmothers. So at the beginning of the twentieth century, almost half of the children died in infancy. So it's better not to remember the wellness procedures of that time.
So, the bath and generally high body temperature. In the first two months of pregnancy, the squiggle that later becomes a baby is very sensitive to overheating. In children, from this, the nervous system is formed incorrectly, but not in the sense that they will be capricious children, but in the sense that they can be born without a brain. This is called neural tube defects. To do this, it is enough to raise the body temperature of a pregnant woman to 39 degrees.
Overheating can happen from illness, from high air temperatures outside, from sports and from a hot bath.
Even the most loyal recommendations from one serious scientific study dictate that pregnant women can have physical education for 35 minutes, bringing your heart rate to 80 - 90% of the maximum at an ambient temperature of 25 degrees and relative humidity 45%. They also include sitting in a hot bath for 20 minutes at 40 degrees, or in a dry sauna at 70 degrees. Such entertainment usually cannot raise the temperature of the pregnant body to a critical one. Usually.
It is also noted that pregnant women tolerate exercise in water better, because water better regulates body temperature. It removes heat and all that. It is believed that water aerobics can be practiced for 45 minutes at water temperatures below 33 degrees.
After reading all these studies, professional obstetric organizations decided that pregnant women should not go outside or go where the air temperature is above 32 degrees.
Everything is a little better in the water, and water aerobics can be practiced at temperatures in the pool up to 35 degrees.
There is no talk of a hot bath or a bathhouse at all.
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