If we asked our parents when children can bathe after eating, they will many would say you have to wait two hours or maybe three. You bathed when you finally could, then went out for a while, to have a snack, and then you had to wait another two or three hours, so, of course, the bathroom was almost discarded.
There were even those who refused to snack on a plan "or bring me food", knowing that the punishment for the snack was another two hours of drying. Now it seems that we do not see it so much, but just in case there are doubts about it we will answer the question: Can children bathe after eating or do they have to wait two hours?
Really, what childhood did they give us
What childhood our parents gave us. Not only were the remote controls of the old televisions without a remote control, not only did we burn our backs year after year because they didn't put cream on us, but we also had a demonic heat, sweating like chickens on the towels after lunch waiting for the clock to say when we could bathe or, in the worst case, running from one side to another, at the risk of giving us some of the heat, waiting for the bathroom.
The reason for that rule is that they believed that the contact of water with the skin, as if we were Gremlins after midnight, cut our digestion and made us very bad. Now we know that it is a mistake to say digestion cut, that the correct name is hydrocution and that the problem is not water, nor digestion, but temperature change.
Temperature change?
So is. The body is hot and suddenly comes into contact with water, which depending on the time of the year, may be relatively cold (or not hot enough) and the temperature difference causes a reaction in the body that inhibits breathing and blood circulation and an overload occurs in the heart that ends in syncope. When it happens in water it is especially dangerous because the child (or person) sinks unconscious.
But if it's a temperature change, what does the food have to do with it?
Well that, the food has nothing to do. It could have happened to us precisely following the advice of our parents. Two or three hours waiting, some playing and running, increasing the temperature of our body so that then, when entering the water, the change was even more abrupt.
You just have to consider the food issue if you have filled up eating. Come on, if you have made a "Christmas" meal and then you are going to bathe. Because digestion will be heavier and it is easier for syncope to occur.
For the rest, the important thing is always monitor so that there is no sudden temperature change. Have eaten or not eaten, it does not matter, what you have to do is that the entrance to the water, if it is cold, is progressive. Come on, the typical thing that older people do, that we are no longer for much adventure. Put your feet and move slowly inwards. We wet the wrists, the nape, the belly, etc. Thus the change in body temperature occurs very gradually and the body becomes accustomed without risks.
If we talk about a pool, well the same. Sit on the edge for a while, put your feet and from there go wetting various areas of the body to get used to the temperature. The shower before the pool? If it's very hot, happening. You will tell me how you put a child in a shower progressively. Power, you can, but I wouldn't mess with the subject much, better in the pool.
And obviously, when children are older, avoid the "Run water!". It is very fun, but going from being dry and hot to wet and cold is dangerous, unless we talk about a children's pool that between how small they are and that of meadillos there are, they are usually like a soup (sorry, I had what to say).
