Spring Festival is the grandest and most lively traditional festival of the year in China. Family reunion, dumplings and steamed rice cakes, every household decorated with lights; visiting friends and relatives, happy gathering and drinking, every family is full of joy. However, there are many risk factors for diseases during the Chinese New Year, and the elderly, especially those with cardiovascular diseases, should be more vigilant. Have a happy Chinese New Year!
1.Common cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and symptoms
Cardiovascular diseases are valued for their “high incidence, disability, mortality, recurrence and complications”. Clinically, the common cardiovascular diseases include: angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, cerebral thrombosis, cerebral embolism, cerebral hemorrhage and so on. We should pay enough attention to the following symptoms when they suddenly appear in our daily life: chest tightness, chest pain, panic, shortness of breath, headache, dizziness, nausea, numbness of limbs, unfavorable speech, and distorted mouth and eyes. They are often signals of the development of these diseases. In addition, geriatric diseases have their own special features that require extra attention. Nowadays, many diseases of the elderly tend to have a long course, coexist with multiple diseases, are complicated, take more kinds of medications, have less typical clinical symptoms, and some more insidious symptoms, such as weakness, anorexia, low fever, high and low blood pressure, unstable blood sugar, etc., should also be a cause for concern.
2.The reasons for the high incidence of cardiovascular disease
The reasons for the high incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases during the Spring Festival are attributed to three things: first, cold, second, emotion, and third, diet.
Spring Festival is generally before and after the Spring Festival, the climate is cold and the temperature changes a lot. In Chinese medicine, cold is a yin evil, easy to hurt the body’s yang energy, so the symptoms of deficiency cold; cold stagnation, easy to lead to blockage of the meridians, pain symptoms; cold collection, easy to make the couples and tendons contracted contracture, there are unfavorable performance of limb activities. We should always pay attention to climate change and pay attention to daily warmth.
The influence of emotional factors on disease is called “seven emotions cause disease” in Chinese medicine. The seven emotions are happiness, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear and fright. During the Chinese New Year, many aspects such as family reunion and recreational activities can cause mood swings. Strong and persistent emotional stimulation can damage the essence of the internal organs, leading to dysfunction of the body and triggering cardiovascular diseases. Huang Di Nei Jing – pain theory: “all diseases born in the gas, anger is gas …… sad is gas, fear is gas …… scared is gas chaos …… thinking is gas knot. .”
The dietary factors that cause disease occur, we call it “dietary inappropriate”. The ancestor of the Fang book “Theory of Typhoid” says: “Where the taste of food to nourish in life, eat the harm, but can be harmful …… if appropriate to benefit the body, harm is into disease.” During the holiday season, or gregarious, too much food and drink, the accumulation of food within the stop, qi stagnation; or too busy, forgetting to eat, resulting in nutritional deficiencies, qi and blood biochemical deficiencies. In addition, eating food that has been stored too long and spoiled, or eating too cold and greasy, can affect the function of the spleen and stomach, resulting in imbalance of qi and blood and yin and yang, which can lead to disease.
Other factors, such as overexertion, omission of drugs, addiction to alcohol and tobacco, can also trigger or aggravate cardiovascular diseases.
3, the prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and care
”The sage does not treat his own disease, but treats the untreated disease; does not treat the disorder, but treats the untreated disorder.” Chinese medicine “treating the untreated disease” thought and many aphorisms of the elderly health, life extension is worthy of our study and emulation, believe and practice.
Avoid the evil wind, avoid it sometimes
During the Spring Festival, the weather is cold, so we should pay attention to keep warm to prevent the invasion of cold evil. Even if the family is sitting around the house, we should pay attention to maintain the indoor temperature, generally not less than 16 ℃, and not too high, to reduce the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor. Visiting friends and relatives is an important item in the festival. When the elderly go out, they should wear more clothes, and adapt to the cold in the hallway from indoors to outdoors for a while, and keep warm on the way. Patients with coronary heart disease and stroke are less adaptable to weather changes, and the cold winter affects them more obviously.
Tranquility and emptiness, true energy from it
The family reunion, visiting friends and relatives, friends and relatives, talking about everything, mood swings are inevitable. However, excessive mood swings such as great joy and grief are not good for health and are risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, an optimistic and calm state of mind is especially important, especially for emotionally sensitive patients. Older people should control their emotions, keep a calm and relaxed state of mind, pay attention to avoid talking about agitated topics, play mahjong, poker and other recreational activities should also be moderate, moderate and not too serious to avoid cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents.
Eat and drink in moderation and have reasonable meals
During the holiday season, diet should be moderate, the general principle is: moderate, light, low salt, low fat, appropriate to eat more vegetables and fruits, drink more water.
At the time of Chinese New Year, the table is full of chicken, duck, fish and meat, seafood and rare birds, and the youngsters are honoring the old people and persuading them to drink and eat more in this atmosphere, which makes the middle-aged and old people happy. For patients with coronary heart disease, excessive diet may induce angina pectoris myocardial infarction. Properly eat more dietary fiber-rich foods, such as celery, bamboo shoots, etc.; to drink more water, it is best to drink a glass of water before bed and in the morning, which can dilute the blood to prevent myocardial infarction and stroke occur. Furthermore, do not skip breakfast. Breakfast meals are reasonable, will reduce blood viscosity, to ensure a balanced supply of energy for the day.
Get up and live regularly, do not make delusional work
During the Chinese New Year festival, some middle-aged and elderly people’s normal routine is disturbed, they wake up early and go to bed late, so they cannot ensure normal rest, and symptoms such as tiredness and fatigue will be highlighted, which increases the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The New Year is lively, but it is important to ensure sufficient sleep and maintain normal good habits. It is best for middle-aged and elderly people to arrange activities according to their usual work and rest schedules. As young people, it is best to make appointments in advance before visiting elders to give others sufficient time to prepare. Respect and honor your elders, but also pay attention to their heart and brain health.
During the holiday season, it is important to choose the right time and intensity for sports and exercise. Morning exercise for the elderly is not appropriate, early morning sympathetic excitement, blood pressure is prone to fluctuations, strenuous activity will trigger acute attacks of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease. If you want to move around, you can choose the time when the temperature is higher, the intensity of the activity should be small, such as slow walking, tai chi, etc., the exercise time to about 20 minutes is appropriate, the body can be slightly sweaty. In addition, the holiday should not be too restful. The ancients have said: “long lying consume gas, long sitting hurt meat, long vision hurt blood.” Watch TV in moderation, preferably no more than two hours a day, half an hour to get up and move around.
Take medication on time, health escort
Regular and reasonable medication is the most important thing to prevent diseases. During the Spring Festival, those who are at home will come and go and sleep restlessly; those who are away will travel around and eat at irregular hours. Many patients are unable to take their medication on time and in the right amount. For hypertensive stroke patients, doctors will advise long-term medication. Regular and quantitative medication to ensure maximum therapeutic effect, maintain normal blood pressure, improve heart and brain function, and reduce the incidence of disease. Some emergency medications such as quick-acting heart pills and cardiac pain relief should be kept on hand at home in case of emergency. As a family member children must remind patients to keep their health with them at all times.
Chinese medicine treats the disease before it happens
Many of today’s cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, sub-healthy state and human aging are closely related to the deficiency of human qi and blood, blood stagnation. In this regard, the Department of Cadre Health Care of Shandong Provincial Hospital has accumulated rich clinical experience in the treatment and regulation of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases by taking advantage of the characteristics of Chinese medicine, combining the patients’ own constitution, comprehensive four diagnoses, discriminating treatment, adopting many methods such as tonifying Qi and blood, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and summarizing a perfect treatment plan: traditional Chinese medicine soup, special cream (warming Yang and tonifying kidney, activating blood circulation, benefiting Qi and nourishing Yin, removing blood stasis and detoxifying poison), in-hospital The hospital’s own preparations (nourishing the kidneys and calming the spirit, mulberry chrysanthemum cough, blood circulation and pain relief fumigation), Chinese herbal tea drink (fat elimination and blood pressure reduction, detoxification and weight loss) and many other doses provide a solid guarantee for health protection!