Key points of physical care for the elderly in winter
1. Take supplements in time to keep fit and prolong life.
From the winter solstice, Yin Qi began to fade, while Yang Qi gradually picked up. If the elderly can seize this season and make appropriate supplements, it will be extremely beneficial to enhance their immunity and recuperate weak diseases. Most elderly people are yin deficiency of liver and kidney, and winter is the best season to warm and tonify kidney yang. Therefore, tonifying kidney and helping yang in winter can nourish liver and tendons, benefit heart and yang, and moisten lung qi.
2. Go to bed early and get up late.
Old people should go to bed early and get up late in winter, and going to bed early in winter can nourish the body's yang. You can take a hot bath or soak your feet with hot water before going to bed to dispel the cold and promote blood circulation. Getting up late can nourish the body's yin. Getting up late is not a lazy bed. Under normal circumstances, the elderly should get up at sunrise in the morning, so as to avoid the cold, seek warmth and make the human body full of yang. After getting up in winter, you can do physical exercise according to local conditions. You should choose your own exercise items, such as playing Tai Ji Chuan, running and climbing mountains. It helps to improve the body's disease resistance.
3. Take an active part in physical exercise to avoid colds and prevent diseases.
In winter, for indoor insulation, the living room doors and windows are closed, the air circulation is poor, and the personnel are relatively concentrated, which is prone to various infectious diseases. The elderly are more likely to get sick because of their poor physical resistance and immunity. Therefore, the elderly should strengthen physical exercise and enhance the body's resistance and immunity.
Daily nursing
: (1) Psychological nursing
Old people often feel lonely and lost. As children, they should often go home to accompany their parents, understand their psychological and physiological changes, grasp their physical discomfort symptoms in time, help them seek medical treatment in time, avoid delaying their illness and losing the best treatment time, so that the old people can fully feel their sense of security.
Children should help the elderly reduce unnecessary psychological burden and tension, and persuade them to develop hobbies, such as playing Tai Ji Chuan, dancing and playing chess, so as to prevent senile diseases and reduce the risk of depression.
(2) Diet care
Middle-aged and elderly people should usually eat a low-salt and low-fat diet, and don't pay attention to the diet until they get sick. Long-term salt exceeding the standard (> 6 grams per day) will induce hypertension and aggravate the condition of hypertensive patients. Long-term high-fat diet will make people fat, lead to heavier heart burden, higher blood pressure, poor vascular elasticity, higher blood lipids, increased blood viscosity, and increased chances of suffering from cerebrovascular diseases. Middle-aged and elderly people should eat more light, high-protein, digestible foods containing crude fiber, such as milk, tofu, lean meat and vegetables, and eat more fruits. Drinking two cups of warm water after getting up in the morning helps to dilute blood viscosity and prevent constipation.
(3) Exercise nursing
"Life lies in exercise" is perfect for patients with cerebrovascular diseases. Middle-aged and elderly people should do aerobic exercise at least twice a week, such as running and cycling, and the intensity should be based on the principle of not being tired, flustered and short of breath. It has been reported in a magazine that normal people will stay in bed for three months absolutely, and their muscles will atrophy, their joints will become stiff and they can't even walk. In the family, the elderly should do some housework within their power, which can not only make them feel the importance in the family, but also exercise and improve their self-care ability.
(4) controlling hypertension
Patients with hypertension should take antihypertensive drugs for a long time and monitor their blood pressure at least twice a week to understand their blood pressure control. If the blood pressure control is not ideal, you should come to the hospital in time and adjust the antihypertensive drugs.
(5) control blood sugar
Diabetic patients must monitor blood sugar and master blood sugar control. At the same time, diabetic patients should prevent hypoglycemia. Patients injected with insulin must eat 10-30 minutes after injection, and they must have candy bars on them when they go out for activities. If they have palpitation, hunger, cold sweat and limb weakness, this is a hypoglycemia reaction. If you eat a piece of candy immediately, the symptoms will be relieved in about half an hour. If it is not relieved, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible to find out the reason.