What should patients with cardiovascular disease pay attention to in the fall and winter health care?

Autumn and winter are the seasons of cardiovascular diseases. The human body is stimulated by cold air, which often leads to sympathetic excitation, causing an increase in blood pressure, prompting thrombosis and leading to the occurrence of strokes. It is important to pay attention to the treatment of primary diseases such as hypertension and to detect aura symptoms such as sudden vertigo and severe headache. The cold can also cause coronary artery spasm, which directly affects the blood supply to the heart itself and induces angina or myocardial infarction. Therefore, for patients with cardiovascular disease, although autumn is not as prone to disease recurrence as winter, it is also dangerous to ignore the seasonal characteristics of autumn. There are rules for the growth of everything, which can be described as: “spring growth, summer growth, autumn harvest, winter storage”. Chinese medical theory says: “Spring and summer nourish Yang, autumn and winter nourish Yin”. When the climate becomes colder, it is the time when the body’s yang energy converges and the yin essence is hidden inside. Therefore, we should take care of the Yin essence. In modern society, due to the massive use of air conditioners, cold and warm gradual change is often not easy to immediately feel and experience, cold and warm, warm and cold, so that people can not prevent, so in the cold cold is generally more common. For young healthy people, it may not cause a big problem, but if patients with cardiovascular disease are also careless in this regard, it will easily lead to the original cardiovascular system diseases such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, cardiac insufficiency, arrhythmia, pulmonary heart disease, etc. Therefore, patients with cardiovascular disease in autumn and winter should first pay attention to the seasonal climate changes, which can be started from two aspects, one to have a full understanding of their own disease, to avoid the ideological light “enemy”, when necessary to give their own body “plus fuel”, timely conditioning and supplementation The second is to pay attention to and understand their own situation. Second, we must pay attention to and understand their own situation, the treatment should be early medical treatment, do not have any lazy fluke in this regard, otherwise it will be lost due to small. Three to reduce the frequency of cold and warm alternation, especially from the warm environment to the cold environment to have the time to adapt. In addition, the dry climate in autumn and winter, is a variety of respiratory disease season many respiratory infections, allergic diseases are also the cause of cardiovascular disease, such as viral myocarditis is often caused by upper respiratory tract infections, pulmonary heart disease is caused by long-term chronic respiratory diseases (such as chronic bronchitis, allergic asthma, emphysema, etc.). Therefore, the prevention and treatment of these diseases is very important for patients with cardiovascular disease. Patients with cardiovascular diseases, in addition to the treatment of primary diseases such as coronary heart disease, hypertensive heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, pulmonary heart disease in autumn and winter, should also pay attention to the following matters: Chinese medicine believes that the prevention of disease before the disease, “the righteousness of the internal, the evil can not dry”, the prevention of various infections, infection is the primary cause of heart failure, because of heart failure patients The poor resistance to disease in heart failure patients requires special attention to infection. Second, patients with low immunity in late autumn should avoid medium-intensity physical activities or excessive exercise activities to reduce the burden on the heart. Third, emotions should not be overly excited, Western medicine believes that emotional excitement will cause sympathetic excitement and lead to increased heart burden, Chinese medicine believes that the heart is the master of the gods, internal injuries to the seven emotions is an important factor in cardiovascular disease. Four, in the diet, Chinese medicine has the “dry main autumn” saying, into the late autumn season, many people appear “autumn dry” symptoms, manifested as varying degrees of dry skin, dry throat and lips, nose bleeding, dry cough and less phlegm, heartburn, constipation, etc.. The lighter ones can be relieved by eating foods such as pear, honey, sesame and other foods that moisten the lungs, nourish Yin and moisten dryness, but if the above symptoms are heavier, they need to be regulated by Chinese medicine. Five, the emergence of arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter to early medical treatment can not abuse cardiovascular system drugs. Six, should strictly follow the doctor’s instructions for medication, because some drugs will inhibit myocardial contraction, the common ones are the heart, betalactam, reserpine, quinidine, isoptin, etc., should be noted. Cardiovascular patients in autumn and winter should adhere to the treatment of coronary heart disease or hypertension drugs, regular electrocardiogram and blood pressure checks, and actively prevent colds and other diseases that may induce aggravation of the disease. On top of this, supplemental herbal treatment can often have twice the effect with half the effort. According to the traditional theory of Chinese medicine and modern research, cardiovascular disease is located in the heart, and the cause of the disease is the loss of liver qi, spleen deficiency and phlegm congestion, phlegm and stagnation of each other, and injury to the blood. The use of liver and spleen relaxation, elimination of phlegm and elimination of blood stasis, activation of blood circulation, etc., can have a better effect.