Too many baths?

Silly question:

Can you take too many baths? My lymph nodes, especially in my neck and around my collar bones, have been very sore the past few days. I wake up okay, but it gets slowly worse throughout the day. I'm on lymph drainage and systemic drainage 3 times a day.

I usually take a bath in the evening because I'm so tired when I get out. These areas are still pretty sore when I go to bed, but when I wake up not too bad. I don't know if it's the laying down that helps, or that I had a bath.

I'm wondering if taking two or three baths a day would be helpful or not. I am doing the dry brushing before the bath.

When my lymph nodes in my neck are sore I take a detox bath and sink down in the water so that the water covers the sore area. My detox baths are 30 minutes and I do them 3 times a week. That almost always helps my neck feel better.

Here's the catch - detoxing pulls the toxins out of the organs and tissues and into the blood where they can be filtered out through the lymph glands and from there they get transported to the kidneys or liver for further processing.

Heat also kills more of the bacteria, releasing it to go into the blood stream as well. So there is a "happy" medium that you will have to find.

I'm one who wanted to just grin and bear it, but things got so bad that I couldn't function after my 2nd bath! So I went to the foot baths - they work, only it's not going to get as many toxins being pulled into the blood stream at a time.

So go slow and adjust so that you are as comfortable as you can be. There is no race here, and going too fast can really overwhelm the body with toxins, which can slow your healing, stop your healing or even be deadly for some. So take your time (I know how hard that is!!!), and realize that you are in it for the long haul.

I like rice sacks, as they "mold" to the area better and softer- gotta remember the softer part!

Why not try taking a full detox bath one night and a foot bath the next? Alternating like that may be enough to allow your body to catch up to the clearing of all of those toxins. You can adjust from there as you begin to learn what your body requires. One of the hardest lessons for me - letting my body tell me what speed to heal!

I just did the Epsom salt/peroxide for my feet too. I know there are others on here that have purchase an ionic foot bath or something???

Yep, it's all about YOU! Giggle! Seriously, it's all about what your body can tolerate... comfortably most of the time. It's okay to herx some - we all do, but you shouldn't be miserable.

It's like the Tortoise and the Hare - remember that story? Or am I showing my age here? It's slow and steady all the way.

"So does the detox food help the lymphatic system in the flushing?"

Hmmm, specifically, I'm not sure how it all works - LOL! I guess I should get some more coffee??? LOL! Hopefully someone who knows more about those kind of details will come along soon - otherwise I'll see what I can find.

I do know that some people claim 'rebounding' will help the Lymphs flush, others say a Vitamin C flush, and others say to use hot then cold showers (BRRR!) - I used herbs though.

To keep that traffic jam from forming, you need to be sure that your kidneys and liver are healthy and functioning well. If you can tolerate it, milk thistle is a good one for liver health/protection.

"The kidney is actually self cleansing if you consume adequate fluids, which can take the form of foods such as fruits and vegetables as well as water and other liquids."
altmedicine.about.com/od/detoxcleansing/a/kidney_cleanse.htm
-I actually like this gal's (Cathy Wong) take on things. I think she's putting good info out there, at least most of the time. She has listed some herbs/foods that can help cleanse the kidneys if you feel like it's necessary - but I would stay away from kidney "cleanses" unless your doc suggests it, or you really feel you need to do this. No need to put extra stress on the body when it's not necessary!

The skin also rids the body of some toxins, which is why we dry brush - keeps the dead skin from hanging around on top of the skin that's trying to push those toxins out.

Juicing can be really powerful nutrition. I don't have a juicer, but I used to do a lot of green smoothies for the same reason - nutritional powerhouse. So maybe your body is telling you that it needs a real boost in nutrition!

Yeah, I tried the hot/cold shower thing once too - it left me with massive 2 day migraine! That was it for me!!! No more of that!

The milk thistle that most take here is in pill form I believe, but the tea would work as well. I've read that if one has a ragweed allergy to be careful though as you can react to the milk thistle - I know that I have that allergy and I can't use milk thistle! I had to find other ways to flush and protect my liver.

It's not likely a good time to fast, but check with your doc.

I do a liver/gall bladder cleanse each spring and fall - but there's no fasting involved.

And I agree, seems like there aren't too many 'simple' things left in this world - maybe that's why I cling to farm lifestyle? I had to get rid of my goats, but still live out of the way and have a big garden.

LOL! I did that, it's not all it's cracked up to be! LOL! Especially when you are ill. It's a tough life, even though I loved it. We raised literally everything we ate, unless it was dried food like beans. I only bought things like TP (and a few other items) - I'm not living without that!!!

Much, much better to just have a spot that you can call yours, and have that garden (when it's right) and a place for the kids to run and have a few chickens.

Have you thought of container gardening? My daughter still does that as she lives in an apt in a big city now, due to her career. It would allow you to have a couple of tomato plants and other things, and you could place them so they got the right amount of sun too! Fresh, homegrown produce is like nothing else!

Farmer's Markets are second best only to homegrown! Although do watch out for those that buy their produce at the local grocery store only to resell it at Farmer's Markets. Some actually ban participants from doing this, but not all sadly.