Cystitis is familiar to almost every second woman. At the first appearance of symptoms of inflammation of the bladder , the question arises, how to cure faster and how to ease your condition. The first advice, which is usually given in such cases - is to make a warm-up, that is, to apply a heating pad. On the other hand, it is often found that a heating pad for cystitis can not be used in any case. Who is right and can you generally bask in cystitis?
When you can warm up with cystitis?
Cystitis is caused not by hypothermia, as many used to think, but as an infection. Therefore, in itself, heating is not capable of eliminating the cause of the disease. And in some cases, and provoke a rapid growth of microbes.
Basking with cystitis is recommended for another purpose: heat helps to remove unpleasant symptoms, tenderness, spasms when urinating.
So, if you have symptoms of cystitis, you can do thermal procedures, if there is no temperature and signs of climbing infection to the kidneys.
For warming, it is better to choose dry heat: the question is, not about whether it is possible to warm up with cystitis, but about which one is better to use. It is better to take not a water heater, but a hydrochloric or electric heater. You can warm yourself with calcined salt or sand, sealed in a tissue bag.
At the time of spasms and pain, you can take a warm shower or bath, and before going to bed, warm your feet well.
How not to warm up with cystitis?
Urologists do not recommend for cystitis:
- take a hot bath;
- go to the sauna and sauna;
- conduct any warming during menstruation;
- do thermal procedures during pregnancy (this can provoke a miscarriage );
- bask in the presence of traces of blood in the urine.
It should be noted that with hemorrhagic cystitis any heating is prohibited.
In any case, do not get warm, without asking advice from your doctor. As for the benefits that lovers of bathing procedures preach, the heat of the steam room is undoubtedly beneficial for the body, but not at the moment of exacerbation of cystitis.