The beginning of spring has arrived, the pace of spring is closer and closer to us, all things gradually from the harsh winter wake up. Both of these idioms describe the climate of spring quite accurately. Early spring thin cold soak human flesh and bones, the end of winter at the beginning of spring climate is sometimes hot and sometimes cold, the temperature will slowly transition from cold to heat, Yin Yang long, Yang qi gradually born, do a good job in spring disease prevention for the year of the tiger to lay a good foundation for health.

Respiratory diseases

Spring is the season of wind evil. "Wind is the long of all diseases", wind evil is the first cause of disease in the external evil, which is also an important reason why we are prone to disease in spring. Spring when our body Yang qi hair, skin Cou rationale loose open, easy to be invaded by external wind evil, causing external diseases such as upper respiratory tract infection, influenza, pneumonia and so on. This belongs to the range of febrile disease in Chinese medicine, which is the high incidence of spring.

Countermeasures:

1. Keep warm. Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, once said, "It is not necessary to wear thin clothes in spring, which can cause typhoid fever, cholera, hunger and headache." Spring do not busy to reduce clothes, especially the head and neck is an important channel for evil to enter the human body, do not take off the hat, take off the scarf, minus clothes too early.

2. Wear masks and gather less. In the post-epidemic era, children, the elderly and other special groups should wear masks when going to public places to effectively prevent influenza and infectious diseases. For allergic people, stay away from pollen and other allergens. Try to avoid going to noisy and noisy places with poor air circulation to prevent cross infection.

3, open the window for ventilation. To prevent influenza, it is very important for the bedroom to open a window regularly and ventilate every day. In addition, cold viruses can be transmitted through droplets, so it is best for patients to wear masks when talking to others to avoid the spread of the virus.

Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases

When relatives and friends get together during the Spring Festival, playing cards, mahjong and other recreational activities tend to make the elderly too excited, resulting in accelerated heart rate and increased blood pressure, which may induce sudden attacks of stroke and heart disease. Therefore, in addition to the "outside wind" in spring, we also need to prevent the "inside wind". Spring liver qi ungrows hair, ethos passes at liver, liver Yin is insufficient or liver displacement raises, can induce liver wind. Liver wind in the middle or liver wind on the disturbance, it is easy to induce acute cardio-cerebrovascular disease. Especially in the elderly heart and lung function is poor, if caught cold, blood vessels will be violent contraction, easy to cause angina pectoris and even myocardial infarction, is undoubtedly worse.

Countermeasures:

1, cold and warm. If you go out to visit relatives and friends during the Spring Festival, especially if you go out to dinner at night, you must do a good job of keeping warm. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases should wear hats to prevent cerebrovascular accidents caused by head cold.

2. Take medicine regularly and quantitatively. For patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as hypertension, timing and quantitative medication is the most important. Do not forget to take medicine because of the Chinese New Year visiting relatives and friends; Or change the dosage of medication due to aggravation or improvement of self-perceived symptoms, which is easy to lead to blood pressure and even cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents.

Gastrointestinal diseases

During the Spring Festival, many families have the habit of reserving New Year's dishes. They will cook a lot of cold dishes and stewed dishes and eat them for one or two weeks, just to win the "surplus every year". Little do they know, from food hygiene, there are hidden dangers. Although winter is not a high season for gastrointestinal bacterial infections, there is often a small peak during the Spring Festival. In addition, during the Chinese New Year, the rhythm of daily life is completely disrupted, eating has become irregular, and there will even be a hunger, a full meal, a cold meal, a hot meal phenomenon, gastrointestinal function is seriously weakened, abdominal pain, stomach distension and other situations.

Countermeasures:

1, pay attention to food hygiene. Eat as little or no leftover food as possible, and if you do eat leftover food, be sure to heat it thoroughly to prevent bacterial food poisoning. Spring diet should be clear and nourishing the liver, tongli intestines and stomach, avoid fat sweet taste, warm and spicy food, help heat fire lead to liver Yang hyperactivity.

2, gastrointestinal diet to keep warm. Sometimes hot and sometimes cold irregular diet is easy to lead to gastrointestinal cold, might as well change the cold drink into warm tea, not only can protect the spleen and stomach Yang qi, but also promote digestion, these are very key to our health.

3. Seek medical advice in time when symptoms occur. Once nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever and other symptoms occur, they should rest in bed as much as possible, and at the same time, oral glucose electrolyte solution or diluted sugar brine to replace the lost body fluids. If vomiting persists or diarrhea is severe, go to the hospital immediately for examination and treatment. At this point, the patient should eat light liquid or semi-liquid food to relieve the burden of gastrointestinal.