—— Interview with Wang Ruihua, Director of Department of Geriatrics, People’s Hospital

Reporter Jiang Daolong

Many elderly people are prone to relapse in the spring and spring, and even some of the problems that have been well controlled will increase. Why is this so? What should the elderly pay special attention to in their spring health? In this issue of health, we ask Wang Ruihua, director of the Department of Geriatrics of the Municipal People's Hospital, to speak for you.

Health in the spring, the elderly must first do a "defense."

Experts point out that spring is the season when everything grows. The body's constitution and seasons are very much related. In terms of TCM health care, it depends on seasonal health. At present, the weather is changing from cold to warm. In this alternate season, especially for the elderly, spring health care and health care should be based on the characteristics of spring vitality and springtime morbidity. Older spring health must first be prevented by various diseases. Work harder and harder.

According to experts, clinical experience shows that at the time of spring, the elderly will have some frequent illnesses, which should attract sufficient attention. Specifically, it is reflected in the following aspects:

First, a cold often interferes. The weather in spring is changeable, especially in the spring in the north, which is often hot and cold and the temperature changes greatly. In addition, the human body's skin and sweat pores began to sparge outwards in the spring, and the ability to resist cold pathogens weakened. Therefore, the elderly are prone to colds and flu, which can lead to diseases such as acute bronchitis, pneumonia, and asthma. Therefore, in the spring, the elderly should always pay attention to increasing or decreasing clothes, and should not be prematurely reduced clothing. Once you have a cold to seek medical attention, the sooner you use your medicine, the better.

Second, the "spring fire" frequently. Spring is the season when people love to get angry. Older people are more likely to get angry. They often have yellowish urine, constipation, yellow tongue, and other symptoms. Due to the rising anger, the lung yin becomes more virtual, and the tuberculosis bacteria can easily take advantage of it. Therefore, the spring diet for the elderly should be light, you can eat some fresh vegetables, such as spring bamboo shoots, spinach, leeks, celery, and other vegetables in early spring vegetables. In addition, the use of pear, wolfberry peeled boiled water to drink, can heat, lungs; gastrointestinal digestion, you can eat more radish, to qi, phlegm, and stomach; boiled with orange juice to drink, can be cured thirsty.

Third, the spring storm often hit. In the spring, the elderly often have a sense of drowsiness, it is not easy to wake up in the morning and drowsy during the day. This is because the spring temperature rises, the body's activity increases, the peripheral surface blood vessels begin to dilate, and the body surface blood flow increases, so that the brain's oxygen supply is insufficient, resulting in the "spring storm" phenomenon. To this end, the elderly should actively coordinate the body to adapt to work, the best at noon every day to take a nap about an hour to make up for lack of sleep in the spring. In the afternoon, proper sports activities such as walking, Tai Chi, and aerobics are arranged.

Fourth, stroke potential. Into the spring, the elderly need to prevent the occurrence of cerebrovascular disease. This is because the temperature in the spring is unstable, and cold waves often invade and the pressure changes greatly. In the course of each temperature change, it can cause the expansion and contraction of human blood vessels to be difficult to adapt and cause strokes.

Experts remind us that there are still more diseases in the spring. We must pay attention to the spring disease prevention work for the elderly, especially the elderly with cardio-cerebrovascular diseases, but we must also strengthen prevention.

Spring health, the elderly should avoid "mistakes"

Experts said that as the elderly learn more about health care and health care through various channels and media, health awareness has been enhanced, but they know too much and often do not know what to believe. Many older people often value this. However, they ignored it and frequently fell into the health misunderstanding. Therefore, in this special season of spring, elderly people must avoid “mistakes” in their health. Specifically, there are the following aspects -

First, "get angry" to detoxify. In early spring, windy and dry, many people will appear irritability, insomnia, dry mouth, mouth ulcers, skin itching and other "fire" symptoms. In order to alleviate the "get angry" disease, many old friends went to buy Niuhuang Jiedu Pills to eat, but little effective.

Chinese medicine will be "lit" into real fire, virtual fire, only in accordance with the "fire" to extinguish, in order to achieve results. For example, Niuhuang Jiedu Pills is useful for reducing the real fire, which is accompanied by the symptoms of dry stools, but it is not very effective for the “burning” caused by deficiency of spleen and stomach.

Second, sleep awake and sleep. The spring weather is picking up, the blood vessels of the human body are expanding, and the blood flow speeds up, which easily leads to hypoxia in the brain and leads to spring sleepiness. Being sleepy and sleepy is normal, but many people do not want to wake up when they are asleep. Sleeping too long can reduce blood flow in the brain and inhibit the excitement of the cerebral cortex, but it is even more exhausting.

Third, the house does not go out at home. In winter, emphasis is placed on resting, but on the contrary in the spring, it is necessary to raise animals, because “moving will raise Yang”. However, many people do not pay attention to the spring "squeak," fear of the wind, fear of rain, fear of cold, so like winter, "cat" does not come out in the house. In fact, this is contrary to seasonal health.

Fourth, the mood is low and ups and downs. It is an important part of raising liver to speak about conditioning and emotions in Chinese medicine. If you are depressed all day, you can easily lead to poor liver qi stagnation, if too angry or excited, but also great damage to the brain blood vessels.

Spring health, to the elderly to mention "wake up"

Knowing what to "defend" and clear where "mistakes" are, experts believe that they should also provide several "wake ups" to the elderly.

The first thing to remind the elderly is that in the spring, “get angry”, because of “fire”, it is better to distinguish between the physical condition and the right medicine, so as to avoid improper fire and improper detoxification, resulting in “burning oil”.

The second thing to be reminded is that for those elderly people whose sleep has been reduced, if they have symptoms of long-term sleeplessness, they may indicate the occurrence of certain diseases such as diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and Hypokalemia and so on. If middle-aged and old friends have emerged from the phenomenon of being awake during the spring, they should go to the hospital to check if there are problems with their own health.

If the normal spring storm phenomenon, how to ease it? You can take a proper lunch break to relieve tiredness. After lunch, go for about 30 minutes in the sun and then sleep for no more than 30 minutes. Do not sleep too long, otherwise it will be more tired.

In addition, we should also remind you that you should dress in great numbers and you must be well-placed. The function of the organs of the elderly is gradually declining, and the lack of systemic qi and blood, and the spring in which the body is warm and cold, is rapidly reduced in clothes, and it is easy to cause “cold evil into the inside”, which can easily cause respiratory, cough, pneumonia and other respiratory diseases and cardiovascular diseases. Usually after the Ching Ming Festival, the spring cold has disappeared, Chunyang has been very strong, so the spring "bamboo" will be picked up after the Ching Ming Festival.

The last thing to remind is that we must walk out of our homes and exercise moderately.

Experts said that if elderly people stay at home all day long, if they do not have anything to do, they will have a sense of time, spring flowers and flowers, it is a good time to enjoy the spring, this time it is best to often go outdoors to make the body bloody, evacuation and stasis, The bones stretch. Like walking, jogging, Taijiquan, and practicing Duanjin, it is more appropriate to run or play. Slightly sweating is the main reason. Older people with poor constitution should not exercise even sweating. Both will lose.

In short, as far as the elderly are concerned, as long as the “defense” is appropriate, there will be no misunderstanding. If the precautions are kept in mind, they will surely be able to spend the spring and health in the summer.

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