The precautions for patients with spinal cord injury are mainly that patients should carry out rehabilitation training, pay attention to diet, improve life style and adjust emotions.
1. Rehabilitation training: family members of bedridden patients should pay attention to nursing care, change the patient’s position regularly, carry out passive flexion and extension of joints, muscle massage and so on. Avoid the emergence of bedsores, joint stiffness, muscle atrophy and other symptoms. For patients who can stand up, should be in the family with the appropriate to stand up, shift, return to bed training. Prevent related complications.
2. Diet: The daily diet of patients with spinal cord injury should be light and nutritious, with moderate consumption of high-calcium and high-protein foods to ensure the nutritional supply of patients. Such as eggs, milk, fresh fruits and so on. Patients with urinary and defecation dysfunction need to drink water regularly, eat more dietary fiber-rich food, avoid constipation, and urinate and defecate regularly.
3. Pay attention to the lifestyle: patients with spinal cord injury should ensure sufficient sleep and avoid staying up late. Patients should not drink alcohol and smoke, and should not be overworked.
4. Adjustment of emotions: family members of spinal cord injury patients should strengthen communication with patients and consult psychologists when necessary. Make patients face their own condition positively and cooperate with doctors.
Patients with spinal cord injury should carry out appropriate rehabilitation training, improve their diet and living habits, maintain an optimistic mindset, closely observe their condition and follow the doctor’s instructions for review.