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Having Hot Salt Water Bath Increases Hypertension?
Can soaking in a hot bath with bath salts raise a person's blood pressure? I'm not talking about using it as a drug. I'm concerned about my elderly mother who had hypertension already but likes to soak in the smelly bath salts a couple times a week. Can the sodium chloride be absorbed through the skin enough to cause any significance?
Mon, 8 Feb 2016
skin is the latest organ of the body....quality of skin is to prevent infections and other foreign material... I don't think that NaCl water absorb from skin..however mucous membranes of eye mouth can absorb this water..also patient may get swallow this salty water..so better to avoid
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