The first thing to pay attention to in dog days is to keep warm, because it is very hot in dog days, the body sweats a lot and consumes a lot, which is easy to cause fatigue and reduce digestive function. If it is not regulated by diet, improper diet can easily lead to decreased immunity and cause diseases. In addition, what many people often do in dog days is actually the root cause of colds, such as taking a cold bath, drinking cold water, blowing air conditioning, drinking cold drinks, eating cold dishes, eating iced fruits and so on. During the dog days, we should pay attention to eating less colds and colds, especially children who eat too much cold drinks will do more harm than adults, and are prone to respiratory diseases such as rhinitis and pharyngitis and repeated tonsillitis, fever and spleen-stomach disharmony.

At the same time, we should pay attention to health care from these aspects in dog days.

Health care comes from medical treatment: Chinese medicine has a saying: "Winter disease is treated in summer", which has certain scientific truth. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, there is moisture in the human body more or less. In the dog days of summer, the yang is abundant, so you can get rid of the moisture in your body through proper sweating, which is beneficial to the treatment of some chronic diseases.

Health care from diet: Fire-removing and nourishing foods are essential items, such as bitter gourd, cucumber, watermelon, tomatoes, mint leaves and other cool vegetables and seasonal fruits should be eaten frequently. It is also necessary to properly supplement nutritious foods such as milk, yogurt, fish, shrimp, meat, eggs and bean products.

Health care from the aspect of drinks: you sweat a lot in dog days, so you should replenish drinking water. Should choose cool health tea, such as lemonade, mint water, tea, etc., you can also add some sweet and sour drinks, sour plum soup, mung bean water, etc., which is conducive to summer care and health care.

Health care from the aspect of living habits: the working hours can be adjusted in dog days, the morning time can be half an hour or an hour earlier than usual, and the lunch break can be increased by half an hour. The temperature of the air-conditioned room should not be too low, generally around 27 degrees, and it should not stay too long to prevent air-conditioning disease. Be careful not to stay up late.