Turkish Bathroom Benefits for Your Health

Meanwhile in the Arab world, Turkish bathroom (hammams) are visited weekly by much of the population. Although poorer people depend upon public baths for basic bathing,  hammams are valued by all social classes for deep skin cleansing and exfoliation.

Sitting in a hot, dry sauna or hot, humid steam room offers a number of health benefits. These include:

1. Firstly an elevated body temperature, which works as a fever would boost immunity by increasing white blood cell production
2. Secondly heavy sweating, which helps eliminate toxins, chemicals and other impurities from the skin
3. Increased heart rate, blood circulation and metabolic rate
4. Looser, relaxed muscles after exercise
5. Relief for stress, tension and high blood pressure
6. Most importantly Sense of mental well-being and rejuvenation.

Therefore steam rooms, steam baths and steam showers offer the added benefit of steam inhalation. Most importantly this helps alleviate congestion, inflammation, and coughing brought on by allergies and other respiratory conditions. But steam inhalation loosens mucous and other secretions and helps reduce spasmodic breathing. So natural, holistic and alternative medicine practitioners have recommended saunas and steam rooms as detoxification treatments and to promote mental well-being. Therefore they are also used to treat pain and inflammation, as well as a variety of medical conditions such as skin problems. However skin problems as asthma, bronchitis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, high blood pressure, and muscle and soft tissue injuries.

Steam Rooms

Firstly a Turkish bathroom or Hammam (Turkish: Hamam, Arabic, romanized: ḥammām) is a type of steam bath or a place of public bathing associated with the Islamic world. Meanwhile, it is a prominent feature in the culture of the Muslim world and was inherited from the model of the Roman thermae. So Muslim bathhouses or hammams are historically found across the Middle East.

Although a 30-minute session in a sauna or steam room is safe for most people, prolonged exposure to high temperatures and steam. By the way, this may cause faintness, dehydration, overheating and even rare sudden death in some people. So pregnant women, very young children, and those with cardiac problems, low blood pressure, diabetes. Also, other health conditions should use saunas only under the advice of a physician.  In other words, the use of alcohol, drugs and some medications may also increase the risk to some people.

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