1, the cold stream on the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular effects.
Cold spells will stimulate sympathetic nerves, making them excited, increased secretion of catecholamines in the body, easy to make blood sugar, blood pressure rise, platelet aggregation to form thrombus, stimulate coronary vascular spasm, triggering angina. The incidence of myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage is significantly higher. For patients with diabetic foot, it is especially important to pay attention to the warmth of the feet to prevent the aggravation of the disease. Usually through active exercise to improve the body’s ability to resist cold and disease.
2.Strengthen diet control and moderate physical exercise.
Diabetic patients must bear in mind that control of diet is the basic treatment of diabetes, regardless of the type of diabetes and the severity of the disease, with or without complications, should be strictly implemented and long-term adherence to diet therapy. Cold weather, wearing more clothes and less outdoor activities. Indoor activities should be enhanced and as much outdoor exercise as possible should be sought in good weather. Get more sunlight.
3. Regular blood sugar and blood pressure checks.
You should go to the hospital to check your blood sugar at least once a month or half a month in winter. The severe diabetic patients are most likely to have complications due to sudden rise in blood sugar in winter, so they should always get in touch with their doctor. Patients with better conditions, the family purchased a miniature blood glucose meter, should be tested regularly.
4, diabetic patients winter Chinese medicine treatment
Chinese medicine believes that: diabetes is mostly caused by congenital deficiency of endowment, weakness of the five organs; or emotional and mental disorder, diet without control, over-eating fatty, sweet and thick food; or excessive work and rest, irregular life and other factors. The main clinical pathological changes are deficiency of Qi and Yin, and deficiency of spleen and kidney. Chinese medicine treatment is mainly to benefit the qi and nourish the yin, strengthen the spleen and kidney.
5, diabetes winter tonic principles
Winter tonic for diabetic patients can play a tonic role; secondly, certain Chinese medicines can be used for diabetes treatment. In winter, the principle of tonic for diabetic patients is “combination of general tonic”, advocating “clear tonic” and “flat tonic”.
(1) The principle of tonic for diabetic patients is “combination of general tonic”.
On the one hand, it is necessary to keep the digestion smooth, reduce the absorption of sugar in the small intestine, and keep the stool smooth to facilitate the operation of qi; on the other hand, it is necessary to improve blood circulation and prevent the aggravation of blood stasis by activating blood circulation and removing stasis.
Tonic: It is the main means of tonifying Yin and strengthening the spleen and kidneys, combining medicinal and dietary supplements.
(2) Commonly used tonic herbs.
Benefit qi: ginseng, American ginseng, Astragalus, Radix Codonopsis, Atractylodes, Poria, yam, etc.
Nourishing Yin: Fructus Lycii, Radix et Rhizoma Macrocephala, Dendrobium, Rhizoma Rotundus, Fructus Schisandrae, Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng, Radix et Rhizoma Yucca, Semen Aconiti, etc.
Strengthening the spleen: ginseng, codonopsis, poria, yam, coix seed, atractylodes, atractylodes, lentils, etc.
For the kidney: Shu Di, Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum, He Shou Wu, Huai Niu Knee, Xian Ling Spleen, Jin Zhen Zi, Cuscuta, etc.
From the point of view of Chinese medicine, clinical evidence of diabetes mellitus is more common with deficiency and heat evidence, and less with actual evidence and cold evidence. In particular, the evidence of deficiency-heat is the most common. For the treatment of deficiency-heat evidence, we can use white peony, Wu Wei Zi, Sheng Di, Mai Dong, Xuan Shen, Wu Mei and other sweet and sour to transform yin, generate fluid and replenish liquid, and can remove heat. From the treatment of “acid is better than sweet”, according to your condition and diet, you can eat more acidic foods such as tomatoes, lemons, loquats, oranges, shamrocks, pomegranates, plums, grapes, mangoes, papayas, adzuki beans, horsetail, vinegar, etc. to facilitate the control of disease.
According to the law of the same kind, the winter application of blood and flesh sentient products, direct supplementation of the internal organs of Qi and blood, the effect is rapid and long-lasting. Clinical use of cocoon, light vegetable, eel, pig pancreas, sea snail, silkworm pupa, sea cucumber, etc.. Among them, silkworm cocoon, the main medicine for the treatment of thirst disease, sweet and gentle, warm but not dry, tonic but not greasy, good at replenishing essence to the deficiency to loss.
The effect of medicinal food is not to have quick effect, but to not hurt the righteousness, to protect the gastric energy, to make the righteousness flourish and the evil energy decay, to support the righteousness and dispel the evil, to reconcile yin and yang, with the characteristics of safety and reliability and long-term effectiveness. As the saying goes, “seven points to nourish the disease, three points to cure the disease. Generally, it is composed of 3 parts: medicine, food and seasoning. The relationship between medicine and food should be based on the principle of “medicine by food power, food to help medicine power”. Commonly used: eel, sea cucumber, abalone, Chinese cabbage, pig pancreas, wormwood, yam, poria, kudzu, pumpkin, gorgonian, lotus seeds, corn beard, bitter melon, guava, lily, winter melon, smallpox powder, astragalus, wolfberry, American ginseng, etc.
Other foods beneficial to diabetes: soybean sprouts, pumpkin, lettuce, peaches, prunes, pineapples, carrots, black sesame, grapefruit, bitter melon, allium vegetables and tea. Among them, grapefruit, bitter gourd, allium vegetables contain insulin-like ingredients, both lower blood sugar, nutritious and rich, is the ideal food for diabetics.