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Hey everyone! :)I've heard this since i was young, and was wondering if there's any truth to it: can you die if you take a bath/shower after eating a meal? Can you somehow be harmed?
Thanks!
I have heard about this. I have taken many showers right after eating a meal and nothing has happened..so far lol.I simply feel dizzy.In this world there are many ways a person can die, and anything is possible. It also depends on the person and how much a person eats..but I don't think that eating alone can kill a person, there's more to it.
Physiologically speaking...
A good portion of the blood will be diverted to the digestive system right after a meal. A bath or a shower is usually done with hot water, which will dilate peripheral blood vessels, drawing yet more blood from the circulatory system. Less blood to feed the brain --> getting dizzy --> faint and crack your head in the shower or drown in the bath water...?
Haha, just a thought experiment...
By the way, I never heard of such warning, nor have I experienced anything out of ordinary having done the same numerous times in my life.
Weird that this should come up as I was just talking to an Italian friend who said that she never showers or bathes just after eating as she has been told since quite young that it could harm her in some way. She acknowledges that it doesn't seem to make any sense but it is so ingrained that she still somehow believes in it. According to her it is a belief that is relatively common among Italians..... My 2 cents.
ERsn
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Hey everyone! :)
I've heard this since i was young, and was wondering if there's any truth to it: can you die if you take a bath/shower after eating a meal? Can you somehow be harmed?
Thanks!