Why You Should Not Massage When You Are Sick

When you're sick, your body is doing everything it can to fight the disease.

Your immune system is complex and includes your primary organs, your bloodstream and your lymphatic system.

When you have a massage, your body gets input through pressure, heat and movement and these combined things can prevent your body's ability to fight an infection and move waste through your lymphatic channels and intestines.

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Not to mention, it can be painful, since your body is often more sensitive to touch when it is sick. Plus, facialization over a long period of time can make any block you're feeling worse, she adds.

You must allow your body to heal completely before booking that meeting.

Most common viral infections hold their course in three to five days, and many people feel better at that time and are likely to be no longer contagious. This means that if you feel good, five days plus and you have no symptoms, you can book that massage.

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As for bacterial infections, when you can return for a massage depends on what you do, which greatly affects the level of possible transmission, writes Shape. For example, if you have a UTI that cleans up after antibiotics, there is no problem with getting in for a massage.

But if you have had a respiratory infection, for example, there is no way to determine exactly when you are no longer contagious. So, you would like to avoid close contact with others, including that massage table, as long as you're still on antibiotics.

Taking a massage when you are sick can also produce inflammation, especially if a therapist uses a technique called friction to disrupt the adopted tissue (i.e. joints).