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After weeks or even months of work at home, many people are eager to return to theirFavorite fitness facilities. But even like gymnasiums, fitness centers and training studios reopen, the danger of contracting or spreading the coronavirus always hidden. Disease and Prevention Control Centers (CDC) have published severalGuidelines for gymnasiums Following to maintain their low risk, which include the maintenance of the social distance, the wiping of the equipment by avoiding frequently avoiding equipment that can not be easily disinfected (such as strength bands) and wear a coating faces when they interact with people or do low intensity activities. But health experts say that there is also an area of ​​your gym that you should avoid for the moment, because of the coronavirus: the sauna or the hammam.

The CDC guidelines do not specifically say to shudder the sauna, but they recommend keeping the six feet of appropriate distance while taking advantage. Based on the size of the sauna of your installation, it can not even be possible with more than one person inside. And any mask or face covering that you wear would be useless the moment it is wet.

"All that can potentially aerosolize the virus is dangerous," saysJanette Nesheiwat, MD, medical medicine of the family and emergency. "Saunas, steamrooms and nebulizer treatments can broadcast the virus, which can stay in the air for hours at a time."

The International Association of Health, Racquet & SportsClub (IHRSA) Note in its safety instructions for gym owners and fitness center that "the hard surface, temperature and humid conditions [of a sauna] meansThe virus may be more likely to survive"Inside. For this reason, they recommend that gym owners clean the sauna or steam roombetween users, which is probably not feasible in most facilities. You should assume that any public or semi-public sauna has not been cleaned before your arrival and have broken.

Even more scary, saunas and steam rooms have been presented for years as a great way to"sweat" a cold. Although it has been informed of various medical authorities that individuals showing coronavirus symptoms - which often include cold-type symptoms such as coughing, flowing nose and loss of taste and scent at home and d 'Auto-Isolate, you can not be sure everyone around you is following this recommendation. You could find yourself in the sauna just after someone who thought they would attack a "cold" -'s really Covid-19-with heat and moisture.

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A recent Norwegian study (which has not yet been examined by peers) to determine ifWork in a gym Under moderate security restrictions increased the chances of participants in the contraction of COVID-19. In this case, this is not the case. (Norway, unlike the United States,has flattened the curve successfullyIt is therefore important to note that the results could be very different if the trial had been made of the United States.) Among the precautionary measures they took? Make sure the saunas and showers were out of bounds of gymnasiums. Although this does not prove that their chances of becoming coronavirus would have been higher if they had used these facilities, it has not been clearly injured to stay away and researchers determined that they were a source of Potential danger.

"These are small closed spaces with low ventilation and liquid droplets in the air - the ideal environment for the propagation of the virus that causes Covid-19,"William Li, MD, scientific doctor and angiogenesis, president, saysBetter life.And if you want to stay safe while you are in shape,This is the biggest mistake you make when you go back to the gym.