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What improper ways to cool off summer heat will harm your health?
In hot summer, many people usually take a cold bath, eat cold drinks and blow air conditioners. Cool yourself down. However, these improper ways of cooling off summer heat will harm their health. The following are examples of improper heat injury in summer.

Phenomenon: Poor appetite in summer may be due to eating too much cold food.

Every hot summer, student Xiao Li will eat all kinds of cool food to relieve the heat. Last weekend night, Xiao Li ate half a cold watermelon in one breath, and then ate two ice creams. As a result, I suddenly vomited and diarrhea in the middle of the night, and I took some medicine and it was fine. But from that day on, Xiao Li's appetite was particularly poor. When it was hot, he would feel dizzy when he walked outside.

Analysis: Zhao Liren, a key health expert in education and training in Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, China, said that many people would give up their normal three meals a day in summer and often eat cold watermelons, cold drinks and cold dishes as substitutes to relieve the heat. In fact, Chinese medicine says that it is not easy for people to get heatstroke in summer because of tonifying Yang. If they eat a lot of cold food at this stage, their body's heat can't be released and they are trapped in the body, but they are prone to heatstroke. But also hurt the spleen and stomach, leading to poor appetite and reduced heat resistance.

Tips: Proper consumption of hot soup made of high-protein food in summer will make the body sweat and bring out hot air, but it will help to cool down and relieve summer heat. Because "heat" stimulates the thermoregulatory center, it immediately takes effect. Through a series of nerve reflex adjustments, skin capillaries and pores expand, blood flow increases, sweat glands secrete more, and water seeps out of the body through the pores on the skin surface, thus achieving the purpose of heat dissipation and cooling. In addition, Chinese medicine says "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer". In summer, you can also use ginger and other foods to warm up the cold. Ginger and jujube are cooked together, and appropriate amount of brown sugar is added to warm the middle and dispel the cold, so as to strengthen the spleen and stomach.

Phenomenon: the air conditioner was turned on all night, and my neck was stiff in the morning.

The sultry weather in summer kept Liu Xin (pseudonym) awake until dawn for several days. "I use my brain every day when I go to work. I can't concentrate on my work if I don't have a good rest. " So, from the beginning of June, Liu Xin slept with the air conditioner on every day. I thought I could have a good sleep this time, but I didn't expect Liu Xin to get up the next morning and get a stiff neck. At the end of the whole day, not only did my neck feel uncomfortable, but the whole person felt extremely weak.

Analysis: This situation in Liu Xin is closely related to the temperature of sleeping environment. Because many people will turn on the air conditioner for several hours before going to bed, the indoor temperature is cold, the pores of the human body are blocked, the normal operation of blood is affected, and the neck is prone to stiffness. This is the reason why the neck is often stiff in summer.

In addition, summer is the most abundant period of human yang and vigorous innovation. Cold pathogen is very fragile to yang, which will make the whole person tired and weak. Therefore, even in summer, if you don't pay attention to keep warm, cold pathogens will invade your body, leading to obvious cold symptoms in your body. Therefore, the human body should try to get used to and adapt to the hot weather, conform to nature and adjust its physical and psychological state.

Tips: Use the air conditioner correctly in summer, and control the temperature at around 25℃-27℃. Turn on the air conditioner for a while before going to bed, and then turn it off when the room temperature drops. You can try not to turn on the air conditioner, and the body naturally sweats, which is beneficial to heat dissipation. If the family has the conditions, they can close the window after two o'clock in the afternoon and open it after five or six o'clock in the evening to avoid the hottest time of the day and keep the indoor temperature low.

Phenomenon: "acne" appears on the face in summer. Washing your face with cold water will clog your pores.

He Qing (a pseudonym) is a girl who loves beauty very much. Her skin is delicate and fair, but as long as it comes to summer, her face will get "pimples". According to He Qing's own analysis, in summer, the weather is hot, his face is oily and his pores are blocked, so he especially likes to get acne. After going to the hospital for examination, the doctor told He Qing to wash his face with warm water as much as possible after the oil came out on his face, and make-up must be completely removed.

Analysis: Summer is the high incidence season of facial acne, and one of the most important reasons is to wash your face with cold water. Zhao Liren said that when it is hot in summer, some young people will wash their faces with cold water after entering the house, which will make cold pathogens enter the house, and sweat and toxins will not come out. Over time, pores are often blocked, resulting in "acne." Many young people who love acne generally don't sweat on their faces. There are also some young people who like to take a bath in cold water when they come back from sweating outdoors. At this point, the pores on the surface of the skin are opened and the capillaries are greatly expanded. When the skin is bathed in cold water, capillaries suddenly contract and sweat pores suddenly close, which leads to many diseases.

Tips: When you enter the room from outside in hot summer, don't let your body touch cold water immediately, especially when you have sweat, wait until the sweat gradually disappears, and then rinse with warm water. When the body is calm, use cold water to take a bath.

Besides, no matter how hot the weather is, don't wash your feet with cold water. Feet are located at the end of the body, far from the heart, and there is less blood supply. In addition, the fat layer on the foot surface is thin, the heat preservation ability is poor, and the skin temperature of the foot is relatively low. Therefore, we should insist on soaking our feet with warm water in summer. "Heat leads to blood circulation, while cold leads to blood coagulation". Soaking feet with hot water can make qi and blood run smoothly, increase the blood velocity and flow of feet, and enhance metabolism. The water temperature is 42℃-45℃, warm and comfortable.

Suggestion: don't take the wrong way to cool down for the time being, which will hurt your health.