In the cold and windy winter days, many citizens love to enjoy a bath in hot spring with friends during vacations or weekends to relax the muscles, keep out the cold, and preserve the health. The dispatch and command center of the Beijing Emergency Center has recently received a number of calls for help from hot spring related places. A few days ago, a staff of a hot spring hotel called 120 for an ambulance urgently. A 57-year-old man suddenly fainted in the hot spring pool. Although he regained consciousness, he still felt dizzy and uncomfortable. After dispatching an ambulance quickly, the dispatcher instructed people at the scene to lift the patient out of the hot spring pool and move him to a cool place. If the patient felt like vomiting, people at the scene should turn the patient's head to one side to prevent the vomit from blocking the airway, which may cause suffocation.

Here are some tips from 120. High water temperature or long-time bathing in hot springs may result in insufficient blood supply, which may lead to hypoglycemia and blood pressure fluctuations, causing fainting. People with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, or vascular stenosis and instable plaque, are not recommended to soak in hot springs for a long time, especially in closed spaces. Hot baths and foot baths in overheated water are also not suggested. These may cause excessive blood flow to the skin and reduce blood flow to important organs, resulting in insufficient cardiovascular and cerebrovascular perfusion, ischemic cerebrovascular disease, cerebral infarction, coronary heart disease, acute myocardial infarction and other diseases.