Cases of people collapsing and dying in the bathrooms due to heart attacks have been reported.
According to Dr Pradnya, a neurologist and paediatric, there are various factors responsible for this. Here are the reasons
1. Abrupt changes in blood pressure
It is dangerous to bath or shower with cold water especially to people suffering from high blood pressure. Coldwater causes sympathetic tone which further attributes to rapid de-escalation of body temperature. This increases blood pressure.
Extremely high blood pressure can lead to heart attack. It can cause serious health damages to the blood vessels and the body at large. The damages can be life-threatening.
If you need to have a shower, people who have high blood pressure should avoid taking a cold shower.
In addition, bathing is believed to induce abrupt changes in blood pressure due to the difference in temperature in the body and water. This, in turn, kindle ischemia in the cerebral blood vessels that results in a heart attack.
2. No sequenced bath or shower
If you tend to wet your head and hair first when having a shower, you are totally wrong. This habit triggers the body to precipitously change its body temperature and this is because we are warm-blooded. This might lead to high blood pressure that often causes heart attack.
3. Water temperature
Most cases of people collapsing in their bathrooms are common in winter than summer. Coldwater makes the arteries to shrink. This interferes with the smooth circulation of blood to pivotal organs. This results in a heart attack
