For Health! Experts Say to Avoid These Ten Taboos During the Spring Festival
Holidays are like rest stops on a journey, or a shower of spring flowers. In these busy days, everyone looks forward to the holidays. After a busy year, people can't help but celebrate when welcoming the Spring Festival. However, experts remind people not to forget disease prevention and health maintenance during the holidays, to eat moderately, live regularly, control emotions, avoid overexertion, and have a healthy, happy, safe, and auspicious Spring Festival.
Patients with liver disease should avoid "alcohol"
Drinking alcohol for patients with liver disease will directly damage liver cells, and may even cause liver cell degeneration or necrosis, leading to a further deterioration of the condition.
Patients with gallbladder disease should avoid "greasy food"
During the festival, food is often greasy. If patients with gallbladder disease consume large amounts of rich and greasy food, it will加重 the burden on the gallbladder and induce acute cholecystitis. Therefore, patients with gallbladder disease should avoid greasy foods.
Patients with colds should avoid "gatherings"
During the Spring Festival, the weather is cold, and people are prone to colds. If they visit relatives and friends and gather together, it is very easy to cause cross-infection and spread of diseases. Therefore, patients with colds should not go out, and it is best to recuperate at home, which is beneficial to recovery and avoids infecting others.
Patients with pancreatic disease should avoid "overeating"
During the festival, there is an abundance of delicious food. Overeating can stimulate the pancreas to secrete large amounts of pancreatic juice, increasing pressure in the pancreatic duct, leading to rupture and inducing acute pancreatitis.
Patients with hypertension should avoid "excitement/noise"
During the festival, when family and friends get together, the crowds and noise can keep the brain in an excited state, leading to increased secretion of catecholamines in the body, which can accelerate the heart rate, speed up blood flow, cause spasms of small arteries, and increase blood pressure, triggering cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Patients with coronary heart disease should avoid "overexertion"
Being too busy or indulging in excessive entertainment during the festival can accelerate the heart rate,加重 the heart's load, and increase blood pressure, which can induce angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, or stroke.
Patients with diabetes should avoid "sweet food"
During the festival, patients with diabetes should avoid "sweet" food, otherwise, it will加重 the burden on the body and may even be life-threatening.
Patients with vasculitis should avoid "smoking"
During the festival, relatives and friends often come to "pay a New Year's call." Patients with vasculitis may smoke frequently to entertain guests. This can increase platelet aggregation and inhibit fibrinolysis, causing the blood to be in a hypercoagulable state, which worsens the condition.
Patients with peptic ulcers should avoid "staying up late"
There is a folk custom in China of "staying up late" on New Year's Eve. If patients with stomach or duodenal ulcers stay up late with their family or watch TV all night, causing excessive fatigue or lack of sleep, it can easily trigger an attack or worsen the condition.
Patients with chronic respiratory diseases should avoid "cold exposure"
During the Spring Festival, the temperature is relatively low. Therefore, patients with respiratory diseases such as bronchitis and emphysema should pay attention to cold prevention and keep warm to avoid catching a cold and prevent a relapse of their old illness.