When I take a shower, I love really hot showers. Usually when I get out the shower I am glowing red. My mum, told me that being in a shower as hot as I was, I was cooking my skin because of the high temperture and long term exposure since I take long showers. Is this true, because that sort of scared me to think that I am cooking my skin.
2007-07-31 21:00:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Skin Conditions
No....you not "Fine" as sicco puts it. You are overheating your internal organs, that's one reason they have warning on Jacuzzi tubs and hot tubs. Ten minutes at these temps is too much, you can start a heart reaction and actually have a heart attack.
Your shower should be about 110 at the most, so you can feel it, then to rinse, gradually turn it to cool so the skin can relax.
A hot shower will force the blood to go into the internal organs to keep them cool. Your internal organs cannot keep up a sustained temperature of heat without damage, the blood continues to get hotter as it circulates and it keeps getting the internal organs hotter, the cycle continues until it reaches a point that damage occurs, light headiness, nausea and headaches occur. You can pass out without warning. Your blood vessels shut down due to the heat, it's called a heart attack.
2007-07-31 21:11:15 · answer #1 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you are not cooking your skin. I love really hot showers too, and your skin becomes red because it is irritated. Just think of the water as burning you. If you were to burn yourself on something hot, would you consider it as cooking your skin, probably not. Your skin cells die and fall off anyways to get replaced by new ones, and I really don't think we are causing ourselves any harm by taking a hot shower. I think it might even be good for our skin because the heat opens up our pores,so they get cleaned better. Don't worry about it, you aren't cooking your skin.
2007-07-31 21:08:21 · answer #2 · answered by Amanda 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No...your fine. I do the same thing, and as long as your not hurting the morning after. If you are, its only like a sun burn without the cancer scare. Its all good, hooray for hot showers!
2007-07-31 21:04:35 · answer #3 · answered by ssiicckkoo 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is..it's like boiling yourself.i took some hot showers too but not as hot as you did.i think you don't want to be cooked do you?..take it easy with the temperature or at least don't stay so long
2007-07-31 21:04:51 · answer #4 · answered by girl 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would agree with "ssiicckkoo".
2007-07-31 21:06:52 · answer #5 · answered by rockerbliss 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋