Abdij de Westerburcht Westerbork - Wellness center

With an infectious disease. If you carry an infectious disease, a sauna visit is not possible. The heat inside the sauna can infect other sauna visitors.

Although everyone is free to fill in a sauna round according to their own preferences, there is a general guideline for healthy sauna use. In general, a sauna round consists of eight steps. The operation and importance of each step will be briefly explained. 1. For good hygiene, you clear the body of skin care products and deodorant residues by using a warm shower. 2. Drying off To allow the hot air to touch the skin in the sauna, dry the body first. Perspiring will be more difficult when you enter the sauna with wet skin. 3. Warm foot bath 5-10 minutes, a necessary part of a sauna round is the warm foot bath. The warm water warms the blood in the feet and thus prepares the body for the sauna. 4. The sauna, enjoy the heat. Use of a towel is necessary due to the hygiene and the hot benches. Sitting or lying down, with the feet level with the buttocks. 5. The cold air bath, the lungs are ready to absorb plenty of oxygen that the body now asks for. You can take this air bath by going outside. At least five, but better is 15 minutes. 6. Cold rinse, it is important to let the body cool down, especially think about cooling the head properly. 7. Warm foot bath, a sauna session ends again with a warm foot bath equal to your body temperature. The body is thus gradually brought to its natural temperature.

You will perspire in the sauna. Your body excretes waste through your skin. If you're wearing swimwear, the dirt will soak into the fabric and stick to your body. That is against the philosophy of the sauna and is also unhygienic. There is also a greater chance of overheating by wearing swimwear: wet swimwear keeps the body wet, because a wet body cools down more slowly than a dry body, when wearing swimwear you have a greater chance of overheating your body.