In spring, how should diabetic patients prevent and maintain their health? This reporter recently interviewed Dr. Liu Dawen, a physician in the Department of Endocrinology at the Shanxi Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Dr. Liu said, according to Chinese medicine, people and the natural environment is a whole, when the natural environment changes, the human body will also occur with the corresponding changes. Spring is a wood in the five elements, the main birth, hair, the main drainage, so “sugar lovers” should be in line with the growth of Qi, while taking good care of the liver. The spring weather is warm, everything is growing, and microorganisms and viruses are multiplying. Diabetic patients, especially elderly diabetic patients with low immunity, can easily feel external evil and develop symptoms such as cold and fever, and even pneumonia may occur. Dr. Liu said, spring temperature changes, so do not lose clothes too fast, according to the climate to add and subtract clothing, to avoid wind and cold; keep indoor air fresh, to reduce the breeding of bacteria and viruses is also very important. If your family has the flu, you can smoke vinegar indoors to purify the environment; spring is a good time to renew everything, is a good time to nourish the internal organs, you can properly exercise within your reach, such as tai chi, walking, etc., can improve their own resistance to disease, but also good for blood sugar. But do not be in the wind, cold environment for too long exercise; in addition, can often be used to drink water, such as blueberry, to clear the heat and detoxification, to prevent colds. The diet is not too fatty and sweet. As the saying goes, the disease comes from the “mouth”, diabetic patients should eat less fatty and sweet products, in addition, the spring diet should also pay attention to two points: do not over-eat the taste of acid collection. Although most of the thirst diseases are Yin deficiency-based, and acid and sweet astringent Yin, but spring is the main liver hair time, if the liver Qi astringent too much, will affect the function of the spleen and stomach; do not eat too much spicy and sweet hairy things. Similarly, if you eat too much pungent and sweet, the liver wood will be too strong and will grasp the spleen earth, which is also not conducive to blood sugar control. In general, the diet of “sugar lovers” in spring should be based on a regular and quantitative basis, according to the patient’s specific situation to eat sweet and warm products to nourish Yang Qi. The daytime hours are longer and the nighttime hours are shorter in spring, so we should follow this pattern of day and night changes, moderately reduce sleep and increase activity time. It is generally recommended to go to sleep before the zi zhi, that is, before 23:00. If you can’t sleep peacefully at these two hours, the liver and gallbladder metabolism will be out of order and you will be prone to hepatitis, cholecystitis and stones. Some “sugar lovers” think that spring sleepiness and autumn fatigue is a normal phenomenon, so the spring morning want to sleep more, in fact, this is wrong. Sleeping late and waking up late can cause endocrine disorders, which are not conducive to blood sugar control. In addition, people often have a full sleepy phenomenon after lunch, for normal people, after the meal can take a nap for half an hour to an hour. But for diabetics, if you go to sleep immediately after the meal, it is very unfavorable to post-prandial blood sugar control. “Sugar “after lunch appropriate activities for half an hour, and then take a nap, at most not more than an hour. The Chinese medicine has the saying that “labor is qi consumption” and “labor hurts yin”. Whether it is labor, labor, or room labor, are not excessive. The majority of thirsty people have a deficiency of both qi and yin, so overworking will consume qi and hurt yin, resulting in thirst. And after a winter of hibernation, sexual excitement is obviously strong, this should not be excessive room labor. In addition, not too comfortable, excessive comfort will also hurt the spleen. Chinese medicine attaches great importance to the emotions that cause disease, and believes that the seven emotions over-excited to Qi rebellion is the basic pathogenesis of disease. For example, some patients are depressed for a long time, hurt the spleen qi, transport and transformation is not normal, the accumulation of internal heat, the development of thirst. It is also common to see some patients find a significant increase in blood glucose after an atmosphere. Spring Qi is connected to the liver, the liver is the main drainage, in the will for the anger, evil depression and like to strip, so spring should pay special attention to avoid angry anger, at the same time to achieve a happy mood in order to comply with the liver’s vitality, but not to excessive vitality.