Winter Woes: Staying Healthy in the Colder Months

Winter sees sharp drops in temperature, adverse weather that causes mass disruption, and often a huge number of illnesses that can be anything from the common cold through to more serious ailments like flu, pneumonia or even death. Staying healthy in the colder months is paramount, and with help from www.bellabathrooms.co.uk we explain how you can utilise your bathroom in order to do so…

The first thing everyone should do on those cold winter mornings is have a hot power shower. This not only ensures that you’ll be fresh and clean for the day ahead, it also helps to warm the extremities, in woman especially, who can often experience cold hands and feet in the mornings due to poor circulation. For those with hair that takes a while to dry naturally, always ensure that you make the extra effort to get all the excess moisture out of the hair before departing in freezing temperatures; wet hair in cold weather can cause all sorts of ailments or exacerbate existing illnesses.

If the thought of stepping out of the shower and shivering in the cold while you dry yourself and get ready is completely unappealing on wintry mornings, invest in a heated towel rail to ensure that you will be wrapped up snugly from the moment you step out of the shower. This can also help to keep the rest of the room warm, so long as the room does not exceed certain dimensions, which contributes to general health when it’s cold outside.

It is also wise, when the winter rolls around, to invest in a high-quality medicine cabinet and then stock it full of multivitamins and supplements that will bolster health when illness is rife. Many medicine cabinets integrate immediately into the bathroom and offer somewhere to put everything from toothbrushes to moisturising cream, as well as those all-important daily supplements that can help fight off regular illness and improve overall health while the body tackles the effects of the cold and damp weather.

Bathrooms should also be proper installed and kitted out to fight against the weather that winter brings. If there is any lingering damp in the room, this should be seen to by a professional immediately, as it can exacerbate a huge number of ailments and cause serious respiratory problems; the consistent heavy rain in the UK over winter will only make it worse. Shower curtains should be regularly washed to ensure they do not play host to any forms of mildew or mould, and all textiles in the bathroom should go through the washing machine once a week so they do not harbour any harmful germs. Keeping the bathroom clean is more important in winter than many might think; any germs picked up at any other time of the year in the bathroom will often be combatted by the body, but with defences weakened over the winter, having an unclean bathroom can often lead to more serious illnesses.

Following these steps should ensure that you get a head start on your health this winter, and are in a prime position to fend off many of the minor illnesses that the coming months might throw at you.