Swimming in drub and molding: benefit and harm. Drunk unprepared people climb into ice water

Especially severe baptic frosts, at least in Yekaterinburg, is not expected, but also there will be no thaw: the temperature on the night of January 18-19 and the day of January 19 will hold on -15 ° C. Water in natural water bodies, where Jordan is already cut down, at this time of the year usually about +3 ° C. People such temperatures are not frightening: in last years Epiphany bathing have become a truly massive phenomenon. Last year, according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, about 60 thousand people dived into the corruption of the Middle Urals. This year is expected no less.

As a rule, about 20 foxes work in Yekaterinburg and the surrounding area. There are more than 100 countries around the region.

It is believed that dipping to Jordan (the Epipper Drub wears the name of the river, in which, according to the Scripture, the baptized Jesus Christ, - Jordan) washes off sins accumulated during the year, and brings health.

Medics with the latest statement disagree: in their opinion, swimming in ice water for an unprepared person is more harmful to health than good.

Natalia Berezenkova, UMMK-Health Clinic Therapist:

Epiphany bathing is primarily beneficial for the human soul, this is his meaning. To approach this as a single disposable procedure for the health of the body - incorrectly: not from the point of view of medicine, nor from the point of view of religion. As for medicine, the body is immersion in ice water - stress, which can lead, among other things, to death.

According to Natalia Berezenkova, to plunge into the hole for baptism without negative health effects, you should pre-prepare yourself to this. "Undoubtedly cold water It is beneficial to the body - then the hardening, about which everything, of course know. But it is necessary to harden correctly: for several months, it is imperative, gradually lowering the temperature so that the body is accustomed. "Walrow" do this: none of them climbs into the hole without appropriate training, "explains the therapist.

One of the main risks Ice bathing for an unprepared person - ability to overcoat And, as a result, get colds. And it's not about ORVI at all and not even about pneumonia. "It can be an angina, prostatitis, cystitis, pyelonephritis, arthritis - from supercooling can suffer from the body of the body, which" will fail ", and only a person may not know about it at all - no one passes the doctor's inspection before divering" - explains Natalia Berezenkova.

Next in the list - risk of heart attacks. As a result of stress, the heart begins to fight and drive blood according to vessels, and those, in turn, are compressed due to the effects of low temperatures. The ability to get a heart attack or stroke increases many times. Many believe that vessels can be previously expanded by taking alcohol. But it's not at all. Scientists have proven that alcohol affects only the vessels that are located along the path of the drink, the esophagus, the gastrointestinal tract. Before the periphery, that is, to the limbs, the action almost does not reach. But in any case, instant expansion, and then the same instant narrowing of the vessels can be transferred even to every more or less healthy organism. What to say about those who have any diseases of cardio-vascular system.

Hypertensive crisis - Another risk for those who decided to climb into the water, after without checking the pressure and take a little on the chest. For low temperatures Air pressure is usually both increased, alcohol aggravates. Rapid cooling can even more increase the pressure, as a result, a person will receive a hypertonic crisis or hemorrhagic stroke due to the rupture of the aorta wall.

Alcohol gives another problem: Endorphins thrown into the blood under its effects are added endorphins developed by adrenal glands to neutralize stress, for the brain of this quantity a lot: it loses the ability to recognize the danger (for example, if a person from cooling began a convulsion) and give in the right moment Signal to escape.

Doctors note that the effects of ice bath can not appear immediately, but for two to three weeks. These are mainly colds, as well as exacerbation of chronic diseases.

"If still unprepared man I decided to climb into the hole, it is better ... he does not do that, "Natalia Berezenkova is sure. In the end, it is possible to join the sacrament, having fallen with holy water at home. "The closed fonts also bear smaller health risk - the temperature difference in them, as a rule, less, and the water is usually warmer than in natural water bodies," the doctor notes. Another a good optionIn her opinion, - to plunge into the hole after the bath and return to the bath again.

Those who still risk climbing into the water without pre-training, doctors give such advice:

1. In no case do not drink alcohol - Neither before, nor after nor, especially during swimming.

2. Drink hot tea- You can do it before dipping and after: unlike alcohol, the hot liquid really expands the vessels, warming the body.

3. Before bathing make several warming exercises -mahi hands, squats, running in place.

4 . Do not immediately discharge all the clothes- It is necessary to do it gradually so that the body is mastered with cold. First remove the top, in a couple of minutes - shoes, in a couple of minutes you can remove the pants and go into the water.

5. approach the hole better in woolen socks - You can dip and dip.

6. It is possible to take a maximum of two minutes., Better - less: The body will begin to translate.

7. Immediately after swimming, get drunk with a towel and put on warm linen.

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Most recently, the festival of the Baptism of the Lord was held, and most believers gladly dipped into ice-frowns on this day. Such a procedure is undoubtedly able to increase immunity and harden, and positive setting and faith in what it is done with god's help - And heal from some ailments at all. But do you do it right? Is the swimming in the ice corner can bring the benefit of a non-disroxnected person? How to tempt how to make no longer harmful to your body? We understand more.

What do doctors say?

It should be recognized that the doctors of therapists and immunologists argue that the benefits of obscuration in the hole once a year can not be - only harm! Even in the feast of baptism, water does not become healing, no matter how much to believe in it. Many people think that health problems can be solved at a time - dipping in the "holy" water or eating a wonderful tablet, which will immediately heal from the ailments. In fact, everything is much more complicated. Any disease should be overcome comprehensively, for this you need not only to drink medication, but also to lead a healthy lifestyle, and first of all, to start with improving the immunity and protective forces of the body.

In this regard, cold poults and molds can really help only if you start performing them gradually and do it regularly. And many confuse a disposable dipping in a hole with hardening, believing that it will benefit the body. Moreover, large research on the topic of hardening was not carried out at all. Starting from the times of Soviet medicine, a short-term stay in the cold is considered useful for immunity, and in some cases it may be true. Although, we repeat, there were no global research on this topic.

Should I swim on baptism?

If it is important for you with religious or from some other point of view, then yes you can do it. But here you should adhere to several important recommendations.

• First, you should not be sick with colds or some other diseases that can exacerbate from staying in the cold.
• Secondly, be sure to take a towel or bathrobe, dry warm clothes And think about how quickly you can get after bathing in a warm room.


• It is necessary to be in the water not more than 10-20 seconds - plunge with your head three times, how traditionally make it, and get out of the corner.
• Immediately laughing the body with a towel, although it is impossible to grow - you can damage the skin.
• The same applies to the legs: do not go through the snow or frozen land, immediately put on socks and warm shoes.
• The perfect option is to immediately go to the room, warm and heated, drink hot tea or eat something hot.
• And no alcohol! It expands the vessels, while the cold hole narrows them. This can lead to problems with heart and pressure.
• Try not to be for a long time In the crowd, especially where there is a cluster of the people, and around coughing. After severe cooling, the body will be weakened and more susceptible to various viruses and infections.

When it is impossible to do this?

January 19, the day when the baptism of our Lord, Jesus Christ is celebrated in Orthodoxy. Epiphany swimming in the hole (font) have long been steel folk tradition. It is said that on this day, if you swim, you will not get sick. BUT! Still, medical contraindications are also worth paying attention to them. Let's look at the main contraindications and batteries at low temperatures:

(And here, for your fear, as they say, the risk) people with cardiovascular diseases (great risk of heart attack or stroke), epileptic, with diseases of the respiratory organs, diabetics, if used earlier, brain injuries, with stomach ulcers, cholecystitis And arthritis. As well as with venereal diseases. And many more contraindications.

Try to choose the right place for swimming

1. If possible, choose a proven place, the best organized, where there is a group of people.
2. The depth of bathing space should not exceed 180 cm
3. If you have the opportunity, try to protect the place for swimming to avoid falling.

Need appropriate equipment

Melting (swimsuit), towel (bathrobe), take slippers (only non-rubber, as they greatly slide) or you can go into the water in socks.

Do not forget to warm up before immersion in the hole

Make a few turns with hands, a couple of slopes, etc., the main thing is not to rearrange and do not stand.

If you want,, of course you can dip with your head, but this is optional.

Having plunged up, euphoria arises (feeling of joy), and there may be a desire to linger in water, but this feeling of euphoria is just chemical reaction In the brain on the cold. So, you should not linger and risk your health.

Immediately after bathing in cold water, it is necessary to warm up

To be confused by a towel and drink something warming (green tea).

Do not drink alcoholic beverages before bathing.

This is a delusion that you need to drink, because it warms it. But actually the effect is the opposite.

This is of course at will, but you can pray

For reference

From the Greek "baptism" or "baptism" means "immersing water". Water, as everyone knows, the source of life. Sugar and other deserts are dead, because there is no water. Water may also cause many disasters ( Biblical history About the global flood, tsunami and much more).

Epiphany bathing symbolize cleansing and beginning of a new life. Good luck and take care of yourself!

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Once a year, a significant part of the population in our country is becoming "walries"and with joy and delight or horror and shudder goes into the ice water of the hole. It is easy to guess that this day is January 19, in orthodox calendar Holiday of the baptism of the Lord. According to Scripture, on this day, many centuries ago, Jesus Christ took the baptism in the waters of the Jordan River. And although we live at all in other latitudes, many centuries Russian people on this day are courageously climbed into the hole in the example of the Savior. By the way, the traditions of molding as wellness practices grew exactly from this custom. But we are rational people, we are no longer worried about the traditions of baptic bathing, but their influence on the body.

There are no consensus on this issue: some experts point to a positive effect on the body winter bathingOther warn of possible health hazard. Truth, as it often happens, somewhere in the middle, and it is possible to find out it, only weighing all the pros and cons and having accepted your own decision.

But in one question, experts agree: allow a very healthy person can afford to plunge into the hole. If you have doubts about own health, Better find another way to join the holiday. For example, drill holy water at home, in the bath.

Benefit

We were not told about the benefits of hardening in childhood not priests, but quite pragmatic physical education teachers. But because impact of cold temperatures - it is hardening (especially if it happens more than once a year, in an Orthodox holiday, and with some regularity). The body, accustomed to stressful situations, is not so painful to them react. That is why statistics suggests that "walruses" are sick of colds with colds less often their thermal-loving fellow citizens.

During winter bathing, oddly enough people feel not cold, and the inner heat. This is due to the fact that the skin capillaries are narrowed, the blood is directed to the heart and the brain to support vital organs in stressful situation. Under the influence of cold water, the body struggles for survival, immunity rises, and they are not very serious, but "long-playing" sores. In any case, "walrow" with experience talk about how they got rid of some chronic diseases After hobbies cold water.

Usually in people who plunged into the hole, mood rises, they charge the optimism and vigor. Pain feelings if they were, go. The thing is that the adrenal glands in the stressful situation begin to produce endorphins - hormones of joy. So it is not surprising that people once decorated to swim in epiphany frosts, usually make it with your tradition.

Harm

Hardening always advise regularly and gradually, and the one-time exposure of cold temperature can bring more harm than good, an unprepared person can tritely cold and get sick. A, it must be confessed, baptized bathing is exactly such a one-time impact. Few people prepare for them, gradually lowering the temperature.

But also "Professional wisery" has its own "professional" problems. As I said, a hormone of joy is produced during winter swimming in the body. Getting used to this feeling, people are "sitting" at him. And if they cease to dip in the cold, they may have psychological problems: sadness, apathy and even depression.

"So do not stop!"- You will say. But here is not so simple. The fact is that if the body has often to fight with stressful situations, it is faster than wearing. The hormonal system, so actively used, after some time it can fail. In addition, with age, any person may have contraindications to so cold swimming.

Contraindications

How I told before, to climb into ice water is only people who are confident of their health. But besides this there are quite concrete contraindications for baptized swimming.

• Cardiovascular diseases - A sharp difference in temperature causes spasm of vessels and has a serious heart load. In the worst case, the patient heart without citing the load may even stop.
• Epilepsy and addiction to cramps. Ice water can provoke an attack or cause cramps.
• Inflammation of the kidneys and the broncho-pulmonary system.
• Hypertension.
• Problems with thyroid.
• Infectious diseases.
• Allergy to cold.
• Alcohol. This is not a joke: a terrible drink, drunk before dipping "for courage" - a serious reason not to go swimming. First, alcohol expands the vessels, and cold water, on the contrary, narrows. Such a differential has a greater load on the heart. Secondly, you should not explain that in this stressful situation you must very well control what is happening.

For decided

If you did not disappear disadvantages and contraindications, and you still decided to join the baptized bathing, I will tell you a little about how to dip it to avoid health problems.

Before plunging, you should make several warming exercises: a little run, wave with your hands and legs.

It is necessary to cool down gradually:first remove the upper clothes, in a couple of minutes, shoes, then wear out the waist and go into the water. So the body will be prepared for the influence of cold.

In the water you can be no more than 1-2 minutes. After that, you risk obtaining no longer hardening and a raised mood, but a banal supercooling.

When you get out of the water, it's good to laugh with a towel, get dressed and go to a warm room where you can drink tea.

Have you ever dipped into the hole? Would you like to try? As in your opinion, what is more from this lesson: benefits or harm?

On January 19, Orthodox and Grequocatolic Christians celebrate baptism. Early in the morning on this day it is customary to shit water. It is believed that she acquires healing properties And retains them throughout the year. Also, another tradition is connected with this day: in the olden, on the eve of Yordan, the big cross cut into ice and installed it vertically next to the hole. The Ice Cross was decorated and poured by a beet kvass, from which he became red, and everyone died in his hole. This tradition has survived to this day. The one who ventured this believes that healing baptic water will give him health for the whole year. There are coup, which even in strong frost Jump in ice water. We will tell you how you do not need to behave if you decide on this feat.

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No preparation

Baptism occurs once a year, and nothing terrible will happen if you dangle without any preparation. Only real bores are pre-snowing and poured with cold water in the shower. But they receive pleasure from swimming in the hole, not inflammation.

Sit in standing

No hats, more buttons and fasteners - let everyone see what your good taste is. In the meantime, you will pull and fasten all this beauty - necessarily freezing to the thread.

Go dive hungry

Although the food adopted by you will go to heating the body and give energy to transfer cold stress, but why spend understanding for food?

Come alone

Then no one can file you a towel and call "ambulance" if you suddenly become bad.

Drink aperitif

Alcohol contributes to the rapid supercooling and will give an excessive load on the heart, and therefore pneumonia and other inflammations are not far off.

Immediately in water

Duck-snapped and ready! And at the same time, the blood flows to the heart and the brain, threatening you with infarction and stroke.

Do not remove smelting

Why deprive the surrounding opportunities to admire your swimsuit, which you will shoot for a long time in the cold and unscrew, losing precious minutes.

Sit longer - get ready for

Following such logic than the longer the exposure to holy water, the more diseases you can heal. But it is enough for 10 seconds - just enough to plunge three times, as expected by tradition. If you sit longer, the body may not bear the supercooling.

From the water - on the ice

After the hole, jump straight on the ice, because you forgot to bring a rug with you. Just do not stand for too long - wet heels quickly stick to ice.

Out of once

I do not have enough trouble - buttoning buttons and comb your hair on frost. Of course, the wet body under the clothes will quickly freeze, and the cold is guaranteed you.

Opinions of specialists

Alexey Ivaknenko, Neurologist, Director of the Medical and Diagnostic Center for the International Institute of Biological Systems:

"In fact, nothing terrible for health in such a ritual is not. If a we are talking About short-term immersion. The stress that receives the body for a rather short period of time, does not have time to hurt human health, rather, on the contrary. A sharp immersion in cold water is a strong stress (not only physical, but also mental), a kind of shake for the whole organism. There is a powerful emission of adrenal hormones. And, as you know, hormonal therapy is considered one of powerful tools In the treatment of many diseases. With short-term immersion in cold water, only outer coverings are cooled, the internal organs, the more brain, will not have time to feel the effects of cold. And to enhance your "frost-resistant", you can eat a tablespoon of fish fat with a slice of well salted black bread.

But if you sit in the hole to goosebumps, it will not lead to anything good, even if a person is absolutely healthy. Blood rushes to the heart and brain, stimulating the work of these organs. Due to the spasm of vessels, the risk of heart attack, stroke, seizure and rapid development Pneumonia. In addition, the reproductive function suffers, as well as digestion. It should also be remembered that swimming in the hole is categorically contraindicated in cold allergies, inflammatory gynecological diseases, tuberculosis, impaired kidney, pregnancy, epilepsy and diseases of the heart and vessels. "

Igor Pashko, Orthodox priest, the protoier of the temple of the introduction into the temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary:

"Unfortunately, many people perceive swimming in a hole for baptism as a sacred ritual. But it does not have anything to do with faith or god. This is an old palf tradition, closed in the framework of Orthodoxy. With the same success, you can plunge into the hole on any other day and get a wellness effect according to the laws of molding. The composition of water for baptism does not change. Her properties change, after being consecrated in the temple. Water is connected to the divine energy and acquires healing force. And you can plunge, the main thing is the right attitude. After all, cold water is a strong stress for the body, if you add more fear to him - the body is ill. After all, stress and fear are single-roof words that have the same energy nature. Moreover, the ablution in baptismic water does not clear from all sins "automatically", for this purpose you need to go to confession and communion. But the sanctified in the temple water really heals. And it is impossible to explain this phenomenon of a miracle with physical terms. The effect of rehabilitation occurs through faith, through collective prayers. Such water is stored for a long time, and you can use it when you get sick.

In the Church of Baptism, water is sanctified twice: on the eve of the holiday - January 18 and the 19th. The first portion of water is usually used for the abyption of premises, animals, cars, etc. The second is used for drinking in health. And it is not necessary to dare, having taken from the temple on this day a canister on a dozen-other liters. Sanctified water can be added to a simple clean, and the whole it will also be full of grace and not spoil. Therefore, it is enough to take a small bottle - and the water is enough until the next baptism you and your loved ones. "