Haze weather, should reduce outdoor activities Li Song, Yang Guang winter to spring, this is the season of birds and flowers, pleasant climate, I do not know whether you notice, in recent years in the population concentration of large and medium-sized cities, due to the increase in the number of automobiles, tailpipe emissions are becoming more and more serious, often appear a kind of cloudy non-cloudy, like fog non-misty weather, the sky is rarely seen in the blue sky and white clouds, which is the haze weather. The frequent occurrence of haze weather will bring great harm to the human body, triggering a variety of diseases, these days our hospitals because of the haze weather and illness, induced cardiovascular disease and hospitalization of the number of people has also increased significantly. Guangdong Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine cardiovascular disease specialist Li Song meteorological suspended in the atmosphere of a large number of tiny dust particles, smoke particles or salt particles of the aggregate, so that the air turbid, horizontal visibility reduced to less than 10 km a weather phenomenon known as haze weather. Harmful substances such as sulfur dioxide contained in the haze can directly enter and adhere to the upper and lower respiratory tract of the human body, which can easily cause rhinitis, bronchitis, asthma and other diseases, and long-term exposure to this environment can even lead to lung cancer. At the same time, hazy weather also leads to the weakening of the near-earth layer of ultraviolet light, so that the activity of infectious bacteria in the air to enhance the opportunity to increase the prevalence of infectious diseases. In fact, the impact of hazy weather on cardiovascular diseases is also very great. First of all, patients with cardiovascular diseases often suffer from heart failure induced by respiratory distress due to hazy weather. At the same time, as the air pressure is often low in hazy days, people are prone to irritability, which can cause blood pressure to rise. In addition, the lack of oxygen in the body caused by hazy days will also increase the incidence of stroke and myocardial infarction. Living in the city center of the prosperous city of Liang Bo has been suffering from coronary heart disease, for many years to adhere to the early morning in the outdoor exercise, this day, but in jogging for ten minutes after feeling chest tightness is very serious, fortunately, was found by other passers-by and help to rush to the hospital, only to find out that it is angina pectoris and attacked. How do we cope with hazy weather? Haze can be harmful to human health, so it is very necessary to improve environmental protection, reduce smoke and exhaust pollution, especially to take effective measures to control the emission of large amounts of exhaust from motor vehicles. For those who have cardiovascular disease patients and friends, when the forecast has or has been haze weather, should reduce outdoor activities, especially the elderly frail and sickly people, must reduce go out, outdoor exercise can be changed to indoor gymnastics, so as not to inhale more atmospheric pollutants. Every night from 8 to 10 pm is the peak of pollution, pedestrians do not stay at tunnel entrances and roadsides. If you must go out, wearing a mask is an effective protective measure. Drink plenty of water and sprinkle some water on concrete floors as appropriate to press the dust. We also have to remind our elderly friends in particular that the haze will also affect people’s mental health. Just as sunny weather will make people have a good mood, hazy weather tends to put people in a bad mood and produce pessimism, which can easily get out of control if not regulated in time. So the elderly should pay attention to emotional regulation in such weather, when the light is too dark, try to turn on the lights, listen to music, as far as possible to control the melancholy and boredom mood, to prevent the occurrence of disease. Secondly, spring is the time when everything is born, in traditional Chinese medicine and the liver belongs to the same wood, and the liver likes to moist and evil dryness, so spring maintenance should pay special attention to nourishing yin and nourish the liver, can soak some of the benefits of nourishing yin and soft liver and lungs of the Chinese herbs can help to reduce the haze on the human body, such as goji berries, Schisandra, Radix Panax Ginseng, maitake, dendrobium, and so on. Drink green tea, chrysanthemum tea. You can also consume more food that clears the lungs and nourishes the yin, resolves phlegm and disperses lumps, and use more eggs, radishes, loofahs, pears, etc., and consume less stimulating food such as chili peppers and food with too much sugar such as chocolates. And once dizziness, chest tightness and other symptoms should immediately go to the hospital for examination and treatment. — “Outdoor activities should be reduced in hazy weather” -Yangcheng Evening News, 2008.3.24 (Everyday Health – Healthcare B7)