General knowledge of summer health care

The hot summer is coming, we must pay more attention to health care in life, to “prevent disease before it happens”, pay attention to health, disease prevention, so as to reduce physical discomfort and the occurrence of some diseases. First of all, “drink water is not to wait for thirst”, thirst indicates that the body has lost its water balance, the cells began to dehydration, it is too late to drink water. Secondly, “do not drink too much thirst”, so drinking water will make it difficult to adapt to the stomach, resulting in adverse consequences. The former advocates: “do not want to be very thirsty and drink, drink but not too much”, which is to prevent thirst not choose to drink the scientific method. Again, we should pay attention to the meal before and meal should not drink water, because the meal before and meal when drinking water, will dilute the digestive juices, is not conducive to the digestion and absorption of food, long-term so unfavorable to the body. The last is to drink some water when you get up in the morning, you can replenish the water consumed overnight, reduce blood concentration, promote blood circulation, maintain the normal level of body fluids. 1, prevent “greedy cool” summer heat, humidity is everyone has to do, and summer cool is one of the ways to get a comfortable life in the hot days. In taking cool, most people do not think that cooling, driving moisture is not good, but they do not know how to protect the body’s Yang Qi in the hot summer. First of all, you should not just focus on the immediate comfort, too much to avoid heat and tend to cool, such as riding in the open air overnight or in the shade, resulting in the internal deficiency of the middle qi, which leads to heat and wind cold to take advantage of the deficiency. When riding in the cool, pay special attention to cover the abdomen. Secondly, when people spend a long time in the cold environment and enter the hot environment at once, a series of physiological reactions will occur in the body. In the summer excessive greedy cool easy cold; will appear different degrees of gastrointestinal disease; heavy people will suffer from skin disease and cardiovascular disease. The elderly and children have various symptoms that are more obvious. Summer health care common sense: in the summer season, in order to prevent cold air infringement, should pay attention to the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor should not be too large, to not more than 5 ℃ is good, the indoor temperature is not less than 25 ℃; open air conditioning room do not close for a long time, to frequent ventilation; after going to sleep, it is best to turn off the air conditioning. When feeling cool indoors, be sure to stand up and move the limbs and torso to accelerate blood circulation; patients with coronary heart disease, hypertension, arteriosclerosis and other chronic diseases, especially the elderly and arthritis patients, do not stay in the cold environment for a long time. 2, prevent “heatstroke” summer heat, the most common is heatstroke. At the same time, the summer heat is often annoying, and annoyance is more hot, so it is especially important to calm the mind. Summer health care: one is to have something to do, so that the spirit is not empty; the second is to have a good spiritual cultivation, can be free from the interference of external bad mood. 3, prevent “dampness” hot weather and rain, dampness heavy turbidity down, especially easy to hurt the spleen and stomach function, resulting in indigestion; dampness is also particularly easy to violate the skin and bones, more skin lesions and arthritis, etc.; in the summer three volts, due to high temperature, low pressure, high humidity, human sweat is not easy to discharge, sweat is not easy to be The body’s sweat is not easily evaporated, thus making people irritable, tired, loss of appetite, prone to gastroenteritis, dysentery, etc. Summer health care: It is advisable to eat a light diet, less greasy, and mainly warm food. The most common ones such as: eating chili can promote sweating, help digestion, increase appetite and have certain benefits. And the way to eat warm is simple, is to drink porridge. In the morning and dinner, drink some kidney edema mung bean porridge, strengthen the spleen and benefit the lotus seed porridge can relieve heat, clear the stomach and intestines, thirst relief lotus porridge, lung cough, nourish the heart and tranquilize the lily porridge or silver fungus porridge, astragalus porridge, etc., are very beneficial. 4, pay attention to the “diet” in the hot environment, the human body temperature regulation, water and salt metabolism, as well as circulation, digestion, neurological, endocrine and urinary systems undergo significant changes, which will lead to increased nutrient consumption, from sweating in the loss of a lot of water and nutrients. At the same time, people’s appetite decreases in summer, which can also limit the absorption of nutrients. Therefore, it is important to eat and drink in summer and pay attention to some nutrient supplementation. Summer dietary care: to supplement sufficient protein, fish, meat, eggs, milk and beans; to supplement vitamins: fresh fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes, watermelon, prunes, melons, peaches, plums, etc., are particularly rich in vitamin C; vitamin B, which is more abundant in cereals, beans, animal liver, lean meat and eggs. To replenish water and inorganic salts: foods with high potassium content, such as fruits, vegetables, beans or soy products, kelp, eggs, etc., can be consumed. Eat more foods that clear heat and dampness: such as watermelon, bitter melon, peach, umeboshi, strawberries, tomatoes, cucumber, mung beans, etc. Note: In summer, the human body Yang Qi outside, Yin Qi inside the ambush, gastric juice secretion relatively reduced, low digestive function, so avoid overeating cold drinks. In addition, do not eat more cold drinks after sweating, especially certain chronic diseases, eat cold drinks more selective. Such as coronary heart disease, asthma, chronic bronchitis, should not eat frozen food; gastric ulcer, excessive stomach acid, should not use more cold drinks containing acid; diabetes, should not use sugary drinks. Also note that drinking beverages can not replace drinking water, or tea is better to relieve the summer heat, warm tea is a more ideal summer beverage.