(1) Control the structure of diet to avoid excessive intake of acidic substances, which will aggravate the acidic body. Most of the vegetables and fruits are alkaline food, while most of the meat, cereals, sugar, wine, fish and shrimps are acidic food, and the ratio of acidic food to alkaline food intake should be 1:4 for healthy people every day. Chitosan is a kind of animal active alkali, which can quickly eliminate the acidic substances of human body fluids, maintain the stability of calcium concentration in blood, and maintain the alkaline environment of human body is to prevent and relieve osteoporosis.
(2) Smoking can affect the formation of bone peaks, excessive alcohol consumption is not conducive to bone metabolism, drinking strong coffee can increase urinary calcium excretion and affect the body’s absorption of calcium, excessive salt intake and excessive protein will also increase calcium loss. We should avoid these bad habits in our daily life.
(3) Exercise can promote the body’s metabolism. Outdoor exercise and the right amount of sunlight are beneficial to the absorption of calcium. Exercise muscle contraction, direct action on the bone pull, will help to increase bone density. Therefore, appropriate exercise is also beneficial to the prevention of osteoporosis.
(4) to prevent calcium deficiency must also develop good habits to avoid excessive acid intake, exacerbating the acidic body. Such as singing karaoke all night, playing mahjong, sleepless nights and other irregularities in life, will aggravate the acidification of the body. Should develop good habits, so as to maintain a weak alkaline physique and prevent the occurrence of osteoporosis.
(5) Do not eat contaminated food, such as contaminated water, crops, poultry and fish eggs, etc., to eat some green organic food, to prevent disease from the mouth.
(6) Keep a good mood, do not have too much psychological pressure, too much pressure will lead to the deposition of acid, affecting the normal metabolism. Proper regulation of mood and their own stress can maintain a weak alkaline body, thus preventing the occurrence of osteoporosis.
Exercise prescription
Osteoporosis is a common and frequent disease among the elderly. According to some statistics, nearly one-third of women over 45 years old suffer from osteoporosis of different severity; while the prevalence of osteoporosis among women over 75 years old is as high as over 90%.
In addition to the symptoms of osteoporosis such as bone pain and cramps, there is another point to note. Osteoporosis leads to increased brittleness of the bone, which makes it prone to fracture. Therefore, osteoporosis should be actively diagnosed and treated, and should not be taken lightly and allowed to develop. If you experience any of the above discomforts, you should go to the hospital for treatment.
Discomfort all over the body, weakness in the back and legs, inexplicable bone pain. After detailed examination and diagnosis of osteoporosis, the doctor can take some painkillers and calcium supplements as appropriate. In addition, you need to make some cooperation, such as ensuring enough sleep, one hour of sunshine every day, and exercise for half an hour or more every day. The more meaningful exercise methods for osteoporosis are walking, playing tai chi, doing various exercise exercises, and swimming exercises if you have the conditions. Sunbathing and sports exercise first for a short period of time, and then slowly increase and extend the exercise time. Eating food should not be picky, should eat low salt, light meals, pay attention to nutrition to be rich. 1 bottle of milk should be guaranteed every day. If the bone pain and cramps are not relieved after 2 weeks of treatment according to the above method. You can go back to your doctor to prescribe some injection medicine to help regulate your body’s internal bone calcium level.
For people with osteoporosis, this disease really cannot be treated with just injections and medication. It is a chronic disease that occurs slowly as each of us gets older. The occurrence of this disease is very much related to our lack of exercise, and one should never underestimate the important role of exercise in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. Human bone tissue is a kind of living tissue, people will keep stimulating bone tissue during exercise, bone tissue will not easily lose calcium, bone trabecular structure in bone tissue will be arranged more reasonable, so that osteoporosis is less likely to occur.
Some studies have found that elderly people who regularly participate in sports have particularly good balance and higher bone density in their bodies than elderly people of the same age who do not like sports; and they are less likely to fall, which may effectively prevent fractures from occurring.
Osteoporosis is not terrible, as long as we doctors and patients work well together, we can surely relieve your worries and pain.
Treatment drugs
There are the following kinds.
1, bone peptide tablets, the drug is used to treat rheumatoid rheumatism, is the only oral bone peptide preparation, can directly occur osteoporosis bones to reach the site of osteoporosis, good targeting, contains a variety of bone growth factors.
2, alendronate (alendronate): the trade name Fosamax inhibits the role of osteoclasts, while having the effect of prevention and treatment of osteoporosis.
3.Calcitonin: absorbed by subcutaneous, intramuscular injection or nostril, effective for women with osteoporosis who have stopped menstruation for more than five years. Side effects include loss of appetite, flushing, rash, nausea and dizziness.
However, as soon as the medication is stopped, the rate of bone loss will begin to accelerate, so long-term treatment is necessary.
4. Calcium and vitamin D: Combined medication is more effective. Calcium edge tablets contain vitamin D. Vitamin D is the carrier for calcium ions to be absorbed by the bone marrow, so that the body can increase the absorption of calcium ions exponentially and absorb better.
5. Hormone supplementation therapy: estrogen plus luteinizing hormone can prevent and treat osteoporosis. If there is no uterus, luteinizing hormone is not needed.
Healthy and normal bones
Postmenopausal osteoporosis is a highly prevalent condition in postmenopausal women, with foreign statistics showing a 58% risk rate of occurrence in women over the age of 60. It is associated with reduced levels of hormones synthesized by the ovaries, resulting in bone pain and fractures, which seriously affects women’s quality of life and increases their disability and mortality rates. Since its pathogenesis has not been fully elucidated, the treatment of drugs has certain limitations, and the long-term use of Western drugs can easily bring many side effects to patients.
A scientific study on health care acupuncture for middle-aged and elderly people found that moxibustion can increase serum estrogen levels in healthy elderly people. Inspired by this, the researchers, based on traditional Chinese medical theory and modern medical research on postmenopausal osteoporosis, concluded that the root cause of postmenopausal osteoporosis is “kidney deficiency”, coupled with acquired disorders and other causes of osteoporosis, and that treatment is based on kidney tonification, combined with spleen strengthening method. The clinical effect was observed by using dual-energy X-ray bone densitometry (DEXA) and related biochemical test indexes, and a drug control group was set up to compare the efficacy. After treatment, the patient’s bone pain and other symptoms were firstly relieved or disappeared, and the biochemical indexes were significantly improved. After 6 months, the bone density test had improved to different degrees, and the bone density of the 2nd to 4th lumbar vertebrae and the upper end of the femur increased significantly
Prevention
Osteoporosis brings great inconvenience and pain to the patients’ life, and the treatment is very slow, once the fracture is life-threatening, therefore, special emphasis should be placed on the implementation of the three levels of prevention.
1. Primary prevention.
We should start with children and adolescents, such as paying attention to reasonable dietary nutrition and consuming more foods with high Ca and P content, such as fish, shrimp, shrimp skin, kelp, milk (250ml contains Ca300mg), dairy products, bone broth, eggs, beans, refined grains, sesame, melon seeds, green leafy vegetables, etc. Try to get rid of “risk factors”, adhere to a scientific lifestyle, such as adhere to physical exercise, more sunbathing, do not smoke, do not drink alcohol, less coffee, strong tea and carbonated beverages, less sugar and salt, animal protein should not be too much, late marriage, less childbearing, breastfeeding period should not be too long, as far as possible to preserve the calcium in the body, enrich the calcium pool, the bone The best measure to prevent osteoporosis in the later stages of life is to increase the peak value of calcium to the maximum. Strengthen the basic research of osteoporosis, and focus on the follow-up and early prevention for the high-risk groups with genetic genes.
2.Secondary prevention.
When people reach middle age, especially women after menopause, bone loss accelerates. Bone density examination should be conducted annually during this period, and prevention and control measures should be taken early for people with rapid bone loss. In recent years, most scholars in Europe and the United States advocate starting long-term estrogen replacement therapy within 3 years after menopause in women, while insisting on long-term preventive calcium supplementation or using solid bone peptide preparation bone peptide tablets for prevention, in order to safely and effectively prevent osteoporosis. In Japan, active Vit D (rocalciferol) and calcium are mostly advocated for the prevention of osteoporosis, and attention is paid to the active treatment of diseases related to osteoporosis, such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, steatorrhea, chronic nephritis, hyperparathyroidism/hyperthyroidism, bone metastatic cancer, chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, etc.
3.Tertiary prevention.
Patients with degenerative osteoporosis should be actively treated with drugs to inhibit bone resorption (estrogen, CT, Ca), promote bone formation (active Vit D), bone peptide tablets, etc. Measures to prevent falls, bumps, trips and upsets should also be strengthened. For middle-aged and elderly patients with fractures, they should be actively operated, implement strong internal fixation, early activity, physical therapy, physiotherapy psychological, nutrition, calcium supplementation, pain relief, promote bone growth, curb bone loss, improve immune function and overall quality and other comprehensive treatment.
Degenerative osteoporosis is the basic law of bone development, growth and aging, but is subject to hormonal regulation (mainly PTH bone breaking: estrogen, CT osteogenesis; Vit D3 two-way regulation), nutritional status, physical factors (sunlight, weight), immune status (systemic fitness, disease), genetics, lifestyle (smoking, alcohol, coffee, eating habits, exercise, mental and emotional), economic and cultural If we can strengthen the awareness of self-care, improve the level of self-care and actively intervene scientifically at an early stage, degenerative osteoporosis can be delayed and prevented, which will have important and realistic social and economic benefits to improve the physical and mental health and quality of life of hundreds of millions of middle-aged and elderly people in China.
4.Four-level prevention.
We advocate that calcium supplementation starts at a young age, with a balanced diet, more exercise, ensuring about 15 minutes a day in the sun to obtain the most natural source of calcium, and a scientific understanding of osteoporosis. For example, the perception that phosphate hinders calcium absorption is an unscientific statement.
Phosphate is a mineral that occurs universally in nature and is an essential nutrient for all living things. Phosphate not only plays an important role in the metabolism of energy in the body, but is also a major component of human bones and teeth.