Advantages of Infrared Saunas

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The infrared sauna is an innovative analogue of the classic steam room. It has a great effect and works using modern technologies. It warms up not only the upper skin layers, but also muscles, joints, bones. Due to the higher degree of warming up, more toxins and salts are excreted from the body, which has a beneficial effect on the overall benefits for the human body.

Advantages and disadvantages

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The uniform and deeper warming of the human body, which is carried out by a home infrared sauna, favours the fact that the result of its session presents the maximum effect for the body. The main aspects confirming the useful qualities of the procedures are the following:

  • Good portability. As a result of low temperatures and normal humidity, there is no physical discomfort.
  • The possibility of receiving a thermal session at any convenient time. Without preliminary preparation (heating) of the room.
  • A similar criterion is associated with the short time required for a standard session.
  • Easy operation, mobility. Installing an IR sauna does not require a lot of free space, and even a child can cope with the control.
  • Safety of use, because the probability of getting a burn is minimized.

Contraindications

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Any wellness procedures have their own contraindications. So, a home sauna can harm the body or provoke the smoothness of a serious disease. The variations in which her visit to a person is contraindicated are the following:

  • Exacerbation of skin or venereal diseases.
  • All types of cancer-related tumours, metastases.
  • Menstruation or other types of bleeding.
  • Problems with the prostate gland.
  • Mastopathy (disharmonic disease of the mammary glands).
  • Recently undergone surgical operations.
  • Gynaecological diseases (endometriosis, fibroma, fibroids, etc.).
  • Sudden jumps in blood pressure, heart failure, other problems associated with the circulatory system.
  • Aggravated cystitis, nephritis.
  • Acute (aggravated) inflammatory processes in joint bags, other joint diseases (arthritis, arthrosis, etc.).
  • The presence of implants.

Before buying an infrared sauna at home, be sure to consult a doctor.