It is even more important to prevent "cold disease" in hot weather.

Zhang Qian

Blowing air conditioners and fans is the most common way for people to cool off in hot summer, but many people eat too much iced drinks and ice cream to cool off, and even put some fresh fruits and vegetables in the refrigerator, but they don't know that excessive gluttony can also produce various "cold" diseases. "Cold disease" easily leads to diarrhea, dysentery, arthritis, scapulohumeral periarthritis and other bone diseases, which greatly threatens the health of people, especially female friends.

Chinese medicine says that "qi and blood can be warm and cold can be condensed." In fact, wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness and fire are all pathogenic factors. Among them, cold is the main factor leading to "cold disease".

There are many common cold diseases in daily life, including acute appendicitis, rheumatoid arthritis, vomiting, bronchial asthma, ankylosing cervicitis, peripheral neuralgia and so on. Among them, peripheral neuralgia is mainly characterized by cold hands and feet, pain and numbness, while peripheral nerve endings are characterized by systemic pain, which belongs to the category of cold disease.

The weather is hot in summer, and many people often covet to be cool for a while, and do not pay attention to joint warmth, which may easily lead to aggravation of arthritis symptoms or recurrence of old diseases. This is mainly because high temperature causes the meridians, pores and blood vessels of the human body. Being in an expanding state, and the low environmental temperature is easy to make the human body catch cold, causing vasospasm and contraction in the body, ischemia of superficial tissues and organs, affecting local tissue metabolism and leading to dysfunction of the body. Many people are used to sleeping on a mat, with air conditioning and fans on, and are more prone to bone and joint diseases. Because there is little human activity at night, air conditioning outlets and fans blow directly on the back or joints for a long time, the blood circulation speed of joints slows down, and long-term low temperature makes muscles and ligaments stiff, which eventually induces or aggravates joint diseases such as lumbar muscle fibers and scapulohumeral periarthritis. In addition, some people like to take a bath in summer, and their joints are often stimulated by cold; There are still many people who like to sit in the Woods and vaginas, under the eaves or in wetlands, which can easily lead to joint diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.

In summer, many women like to wear sandals or suspenders barefoot to keep cool, especially office women. They stay in air-conditioned rooms all day, turn on the air conditioner all night when they get home, and often eat iced watermelons. Which are more prone to symptoms such as irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, abdominal pain and abdominal distension. If you suddenly enter a relatively low-temperature room from the high-temperature outdoor, the strong temperature difference will easily destroy the human body's own regulatory function, resulting in symptoms such as inattention, chills in lower limbs or whole body, stiff joints or pain.

In order to better prevent the occurrence of "cold disease", first, we should control cold drinks and smoke less in our daily diet. For the elderly, on the basis of a reasonable diet, we should pay attention to eating more whole grains, vegetables and fruits, eating a proper amount of meat and eggs, and strictly controlling the intake of oil to improve the body's resistance. Second, we should do moderate exercise. If you exercise too much, the articular cartilage will be damaged by excessive friction, which will lead to arthritis and femoral head necrosis. Third, don't adjust the air conditioning temperature too low at night, cover the quilt and sheets to prevent bone and joint diseases. The fourth is to avoid wading in the rain, and it is best not to take a bath with cold water. Fifth, people with a history of arthritis should pay more attention to protection. They can take Chinese patent medicines with preventive and therapeutic effects, such as Huoxiang Zhengqi Pill, or Chinese medicines with functions of expelling wind and removing dampness, dredging collaterals and relieving pain, such as Guizhi, Chaenomeles and Clematis. It can effectively prevent arthritis and reduce the occurrence of cold diseases.