Since the days of reign in Germany, temperatures around the freezing point. And also many Eisbader lures to fresh air.
especially in the social media is celebrated #tips currently: images of brave, half-naked, plunge into the icy waters and animates back out. Shivering, but happy.
again and again, be certified to the tips of the positive effects for the health, but it also carries risks: Only on Sunday, the 31. January, is the death of a 70-Year-old in Warnemünde, Germany, after ice swimming in the Baltic sea.
“ice swimming is not dangerous,” says Achim Wiese, a spokesman for the Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft (DLRG). “However, you should speak with the doctor to any pre-existing conditions to exclude.”
if you have cardiovascular problems, you should let the ice baths rather be. General practitioner Dr. Thomas Aßmann: “The ice baths the veins of seconds to pull together quickly – and is, in principle, also the sense of the Whole.”
When Healthy, the following applies: such As the sauna, the temperature trains the immune system. “The ice baths, the cold stimulus alerted the defenses.”
In consequence the body switches into an emergency mode and centered the heat so that you can survive: “It is only the brain, the heart and the viscera, especially the kidneys, in principle, by bleeding,” says Dr. Aßmann.
