By Korin Miller
Women’s Health
July 23, 2019
Selma Blair, at the
2019 Oscar Awards ceremony.
Photograph by Mark Seliger.
"We do what we
need to do." – Selma Blair.
Selma Blair posted a new photo to her Instagram account
showing herself taking a towel bath to calm her MS spasms.
Selma's posted this photo before, but took it down after
she was "kind of being made fun of" by media outlets.
Selma was diagnosed with MS in 2018 after experiencing
symptoms for many years.
Selma Blair is constantly sharing information with her social
media followers about her life with multiple sclerosis. Now, she’s opening up
about a simple treatment she’s tried that she says has really helped her.
It’s called a towel bath, and Selma says in a new Instagram post
that she shared this photo once and was “kind of being made fun of by some news
outlets,” so she took it down. Now, she’s trying again.
“So. I spin the wheel again. I stop on a pic a friend took of me
trying to stop spasms by lying in warm water with a heavy towel with minerals
in bath. Specific minerals,” she captioned a shot of herself laying in a bath
under a pretty, multicolored towel.
“The thing is, the heavy towel helped,” Selma continued. “My body
would go into a kind of palsy.” Selma said she was “embarrassed” and tried to
turn the spasms into “mouth clicks…but the energy had to go somewhere.”
Her therapist recommended putting towels over her and Selma said
it helped. “So I wanted to share. A warm bath with towels and a space heater in
bathroom so water doesn’t have to be so hot,” Selma wrote.
Selma
Blair, towel bath, July 2019
Selma never explicitly links her muscle spasms to MS in the post,
but they’re a common symptom of the disease. Spasticity, which refers to
feelings of stiffness and a wide range of involuntary muscle spasms, is one of
the most common symptoms of MS, according to the National MS Society. The
organization notes that spasticity varies a lot from person to person, so
treatment is often recommended on an individual basis. However, medication,
physical, and occupational therapy can help.
Selma ended on this powerful note: “We are in this together. I
don’t mind being ridiculed a bit anymore. We do what we need to do. #towelbath.”
Korin
Miller is a freelance writer specializing in general wellness, sexual health
and relationships, and lifestyle trends, with work appearing in Men’s Health,
Women’s Health, Self, Glamour, and more.
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