Eat nutritious food
Cold weather is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach and affect digestion. In winter, the elderly should eat foods rich in protein, starch and vitamins. When cooking, stew as much as possible to make it soft and digestible.
Warm back
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the back is the yang in the yang, and it is the place where the Du meridian and the Sun meridian follow. Du meridian is yang meridian, and sun is exterior meridian. The evil of wind and cold attacks the human body, and the sun bears the brunt. In winter, especially when the weather changes dramatically and the temperature drops suddenly, cold air attacks people, stings bones and muscles, and causes a series of changes in the internal organs.
The elderly have poor adaptability to cold stimulation because of aging organs, decreased function, weak yang and insufficient vital qi. Therefore, it is very important for the elderly to spend the winter safely and pay attention to keeping their backs warm. If you don't pay attention to keeping your back warm, wind-cold can easily invade through your back, damage the yang, cause diseases, or make old diseases relapse and aggravate. For the elderly suffering from allergic rhinitis, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchial asthma, gastric and duodenal ulcers, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, back warming is particularly important. Therefore, it is best for the elderly to wear a fitted cotton vest or leather vest in winter to ensure safe winter.
Prevent catching a cold
Winter and spring are the seasons with frequent colds. Don't underestimate the cold. If you don't pay attention to prevention, it may lead to other diseases. So we should focus on prevention. The following methods will help to prevent colds.