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How to maintain health in rainy season?
The strong convective weather in several southern provinces these days has made us experience dripping rain and fresh humidity. However, rainy days bring more than that. Does moist bacteria make your skin and stomach uncomfortable? The wind and rain are cold, is there a sigh that "Luozhou can't stand the five cold"? After several days of smog, are you emotionally disturbed and unhappy? Experts remind that in this rainy season, it is very important to do a good job in diet and mental health care. Diet: Beware of gastrointestinal diseases and eat more dehumidifying products.

Heavy rain can drive away the high temperature and bring us coolness, so many people have a big appetite. However, rainy and humid summer is often the season of frequent gastrointestinal diseases, and food hygiene cannot be sloppy.

"The rainy and humid season is very suitable for the growth of intestinal bacteria and molds, and it is easy to induce acute intestinal infectious diseases and food poisoning in summer, such as dysentery and diarrhea." Guo said, don't eat unsanitary food, especially raw fruits and vegetables must be washed before eating; It is best not to eat overnight meals. If you eat, you should return to the pot and heat it first. Don't eat food directly taken out of the refrigerator, wait until its temperature rises or is heated, because too cold food will damage the yang of the stomach and cause discomfort; Diet should be light, eat less greasy food to prevent excessive heat generation; Fruit should also choose some varieties that are not too greasy, such as watermelon, but pay attention to the right amount.

At the same time, you can choose some dehumidified foods, such as coix seed, which is cool and sweet, has the functions of strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis, tonifying the lung and clearing heat, stopping diarrhea and fighting cancer, and can be added to rice for cooking, making soup, grinding into powder or brewing for drinking. Loofah and papaya dredge collaterals and eliminate dampness; Portulaca oleracea can remove gastrointestinal dampness and so on. In addition, Chinese medicine says that "summer heat must be wet", and eating bamboo leaves, lotus leaves and watermelon clothes can relieve summer heat and dampness; "Bitter can dry wet", eating bitter food such as bitter gourd, bitter vegetable, lettuce, celery, dandelion, lotus seed and lily is also a good choice.

Daily life: avoid contact with wet and evil clothes.

Although humid air is rare for people who live in the north for a long time, it will cause a lot of trouble if the environment is too humid for a while. Guo reminded that in order to prevent moisture from invading the human body and other skin diseases caused by moisture, we should pay attention to the following points in our daily life:

Increase or decrease clothes according to weather changes. Whether you are blowing air conditioning or going out, don't be too greedy for cold to prevent wind blowing, humidity and colds.

Don't get wet in the rain to prevent colds and arthritis, rheumatism and other diseases from recurring. Chinese medicine believes that "a cold is easy to go, but wet is the hardest to go". Rheumatoid patients are most afraid of cold and humid climate. Wet and rainy weather will make "old rheumatism" relapse, and may also make some healthy people suffer from rheumatism.

Strengthen indoor ventilation, but it is best to close the window before going to bed at night, or try to open the window a narrow gap, close the curtains, cover the quilt when sleeping, and don't catch cold.

Clothes must be dried, and bedding should be washed and dried frequently to prevent skin diseases such as urticaria, papular urticaria, eczema and contact dermatitis caused by germs in rainy and humid weather. Fabric sofa is easy to absorb moisture, so keep the sofa clean, dust regularly, and it is best to clean it regularly. Also disinfect and clean the mop, and put it in a ventilated place after washing.

The rainy season is lingering and long, and the gloomy sky always gives people a feeling of falling down, and people's mood is also melancholy in the wind and rain. Guo said that when rainy weather is depressing, people will feel chest tightness and shortness of breath, and their mood will become depressed. In addition, in rainy days, especially rainy days, the concentration of thyroxine and epinephrine in human body is relatively reduced, which weakens the physiological function of cells and is prone to emotional or psychological obstacles such as irritability, anxiety and depression.

1. Find something that interests you and makes you happy, so that you can relax.

2. Go to places with fresh outdoor air and spacious venues for exercise, such as walking, running, practicing Tai Ji Chuan and dancing.

3. Participate in recreational activities or other social activities and communicate with others.

4. Increase sugar intake to improve blood sugar level, increase vitality and relieve depression, except for diabetics. In addition, you can take vitamin B complex and oryzanol. Adjust your mental mood appropriately.

In hot and rainy summer, high temperature and sultry humidity coexist. Many people like to blow air conditioners, which can easily lead to colds, fever, sore throat and loss of appetite. Children are prone to colds or diarrhea.

Suggestions for keeping healthy in hot summer and rainy season,

Drink more green tea and boiled water, arrange some different ways of life and work properly, and change the "moldy" mood: communicate more with people and increase the intake of sugar, thus improving blood sugar level, increasing vitality and relieving depression. In addition, you can take vitamin B complex and oryzanol properly to adjust your mental mood. Eat less greasy and sweet food. Don't overeat, because eating too much greasy and sweet food will aggravate the accumulation of damp-heat in the spleen and stomach.

Recommendation 2, the daily diet should focus on clearing heat and promoting diuresis, strengthening spleen and harmonizing middle energizer. Wax gourd, mung bean sprouts, Chinese cabbage and bitter gourd can clear away heat; Coix seed, Gordon Euryale seed, adzuki bean, etc. Coix seed porridge and red bean porridge are both good choices this season.

Recommendation 3: Pay special attention to the hygiene and freshness of food. Food is easy to get moldy this season, and eating moldy food by mistake can easily lead to gastroenteritis and even food poisoning.

Recommendation 4: Children should not eat too much fruit and cold drinks. The child's digestive function is already very weak. If they indulge in cold drinks or fruits again, they will have symptoms of spleen deficiency and dampness, such as irregular stool, anorexia and lethargy.

Recommendation 5: Always keep Huoxiang Zhengqi Water. If the limbs are heavy and sleepy, you can take Huoxiang Zhengqi Water appropriately to resist the invasion of damp heat. If fatigue, limb weakness, shortness of breath, loss of appetite and other manifestations occur due to spleen and stomach weakness, drugs such as Codonopsis pilosula, Radix Astragali, Atractylodis Macrocephalae and Glycyrrhiza uralensis can be used to moisten the stomach, replenish qi and strengthen the spleen.

Clothes must be dried to prevent wet and rainy skin diseases, such as urticaria, papular urticaria, eczema and contact dermatitis. Don't get wet in the rain to prevent colds and arthritis, rheumatism and other diseases from recurring. It may also lead to rheumatism in some healthy people. If you walk in the rain in sandals, dry your feet and put on dry shoes when you get home. Wear less rain boots and sports shoes with poor air permeability. Underwear, shoes and socks are wet, so change them quickly. After cleaning, blow dry with a hair dryer and keep it dry, which is also the best way to prevent fungal infection.

Recommendation 6, it is best to go to bed early and get up early, and take a nap at noon.