Eating and bathing

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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!:clown:

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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!:clown:

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.

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Specializes in PERI OPERATIVE.

Sounds like an old wives tale to me. Technically, I don't think we can give you medical advice. ;) lol

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Specializes in PERI OPERATIVE.

Oh and I've eaten a meal while sitting in the bath and I'm still around.

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Specializes in chemical dependency detox/psych.

:grn:

Can't give out medical advice d/t TOS. I have to say, though, that my response when reading this was, "Seriously??"

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umm, i do that all the time and i'm still alive

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Specializes in Hem/Onc/BMT.

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.

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Specializes in MSP, Informatics.

how on earth do the fish get away with it? :jester:

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Specializes in home health, dialysis, others.

Is this somehow a take on 'don't go swimming after you've just eaten'?

So many of us would be dead by now!!!!

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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTAC, Critical Care.

I have only one thing to say to this....

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

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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.

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i think its kinda the same thing as when people tell you dont eat and then go in a jacuzzi. atleast thats what ive heard before. something bout the heat and everything jsut kind of makes you feel light headed.

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