What is the purpose of carrying salt when traveling?

1. Anti-inflammation and swelling

Table salt has the effect of sterilization and anti-inflammatory, and it also has the effect of coagulating blood and stopping bleeding. When traveling, sometimes because you are not used to the weather and diet in other places, there will be If throat inflammation and pain, stomatitis, or tooth swelling or bleeding occur, rinse your mouth with dilute salt water in the morning and evening, and it can be cured without medication.

2. Get rid of foot odor

When traveling, we often just wear a pair of shoes and walk everywhere, sweating a lot and changing them less. After seeing the outside world, our feet are extremely smelly. ; When your feet smell bad while traveling, soak your feet in hot salt water or rub your feet directly with salt to immediately deodorize them.

3. Smooth feet

During travel, we spend most of our time walking, and our feet are prone to calluses due to walking too much. The key is to take a bath Directly rub the calloused parts of the feet with salt and wash them with hot water to soften the calluses and restore smoothness to the feet.

4. Relieve fatigue

Traveling is inevitable due to the fatigue of traveling or hiking. When these conditions cause body aches and pains, sprinkle a little salt in the bath water, soak it in it, and then rinse it with water. The water will rinse the whole body, quickly rejuvenate and relieve fatigue.

5. Disinfect wounds

In the process of traveling, there are always bumps and bumps, and there are also times when you are bitten by mosquitoes or the skin is broken and bleeding. When these situations occur and you cannot find ointment to stop the bleeding and disinfect it , you can first use dilute salt water to relieve itching or disinfect the wound, which can avoid swelling or bacterial infection and stop bleeding quickly.

If you are traveling in the wild, salt is even more necessary:

1. When traveling in the wild for a long time, the human body will consume part of the salt due to sweating and excretion. At this time, it is necessary to regularly Add a certain amount of salt to your own food to ensure that your body does not become weak due to lack of salt.

This can have a life-saving effect at critical moments

2. Some people are allergic to bites, causing redness, swelling, itching and other symptoms at the bite. At this time, you can soak the affected area with salt and water to effectively reduce the discomfort.

3. Walking for a long time will cause swelling of the lower limbs of the human body, especially swelling of the feet, which will seriously affect walking ability. At this time, soak your feet with an appropriate amount of salt water (preferably hot water, no Hot water or cold water is also acceptable, but the effect is less effective), which can effectively reduce swelling

4. When hiking in tropical and subtropical jungles, you will almost always be attacked by jungle locusts. Once this kind of leech sticks to the The human body will not leave the human body unless it is full of blood, and once it is adsorbed, it cannot be scraped off with a knife (if it is scraped hard, the remains will remain in the human body, and infection will endanger the person's life). At this time, the salt The use is here, just put a little salt on the locust, it will soon shrink and fall off, and turn into water in a while

5. Use fire in the wild (remember to use fire safely) , adding some salt to the fire can effectively increase the intensity of the fire, which is very effective when you need to temporarily increase the firepower or call for help