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Ever been in one? In Finland even "sick" people go to the sauna all the time. It depends on the sickness though: fever and sauna don't mix for obvious reasons.
by jnurmine 8y ago
Ever been in one?
In Finland even "sick" people go to the sauna all the time. It depends on the sickness though: fever and sauna don't mix for obvious reasons. But otherwise people do it.
Looking at the list of ailments in the article, I don't see them being a showstopper for going to a sauna.
For example, regular sauna is often helpful for people with asthma. The Finnish sauna is humid (one throws water to the hot rocks). There are variants within Finland too: a smoke sauna + asthma might not work.
My point is: the argument of "sick people do not use sauna" is false.
Finnish saying: "if tar, booze or sauna does not cure you, it is fatal". (Tar was used for skin ailments and wounds etc.)
- carbocation 8y agoI'm willing to entertain the possibility. And, unlike most things that people try to peddle with low-quality evidence, going to a sauna isn't obviously unhealthy. So, it's low risk. The bigger issue is that observational results often invert cause and effect, and without any clever instrumental perturbation, such studies are merely hypothesis generating.