Autumn Health Care: Preventing Seven Major Illnesses
As the temperature gradually drops, it is essential to focus on autumn health care. Only by doing a good job of health care in autumn can we safely get through this eventful season. Autumn is a high-incidence period for many diseases. Therefore, good autumn health care can also effectively prevent the occurrence of these diseases. Here is a list of common autumn diseases.
1. Acute Gastroenteritis
After entering autumn, health care should pay special attention to preventing acute gastroenteritis. As autumn sets in, our body's digestive function gradually declines, and thus the disease resistance of the intestines also begins to weaken. This season is when all kinds of melons and fruits are on the market. If you consume a large amount of raw and cold fruits and vegetables, it is very likely to cause acute and chronic gastrointestinal diseases such as diarrhea, dysentery, and loose stools.
In daily life, your diet should be regular, with meals at fixed times and quantities. Never overeat. Pay attention to food hygiene and chew your food slowly. Try to eat less irritating food, and do not drink alcohol or smoke. Maintain a pleasant mood. Excessive mental stimulation, such as long-term tension, fear, sadness, or depression, can cause dysfunction of the cerebral cortex, promote dysfunction of the vagus nerve, lead to spastic contraction of the gastric wall blood vessels, and thus induce gastritis and gastric ulcers.
2. Oral Ulcers
The dry autumn makes us prone to "heatiness," and oral ulcers are the most direct manifestation. In addition to the dry climate, factors such as oral injuries, nutritional deficiencies, and hormonal changes can directly lead to oral ulcers.
In daily life, you should pay attention to keeping your mouth clean, rinsing your mouth with light salt water, quitting smoking and alcohol, maintaining a regular daily routine, and ensuring adequate sleep. Eat a light diet, more vegetables and fruits, and less spicy, rich, and irritating food to keep your bowels regular.
In addition, oral ulcers are largely related to an individual's physical condition, so they are also considered a sign of a weakening body. Therefore, patients should strengthen their physical exercise to improve their constitution. When oral ulcers appear, if patients also feel physically fatigued, they should check if their usual nutrition is balanced, if they have enough rest, and should appropriately supplement various vitamins and minerals.
3. Colds
Autumn weather is unpredictable, with its characteristic of being suddenly cold and hot. This makes it difficult for our body's immune system to adjust in time. Therefore, in such a changeable season, colds are always lurking around us. To prevent autumn colds, in addition to paying attention to adding or removing clothes in time, you also need to pay more attention to exercise in daily life to improve your own immunity.
If you already have a cold, you should drink plenty of water and rest as much as possible. In terms of diet, you need to eat some light-tasting foods. You can also eat more foods containing vitamin C, which can improve your resistance and help you recover quickly. If the cold symptoms are not severe, you can choose traditional Chinese medicines such as Forsythia, Honeysuckle, Isatis leaf, and Banlangen under the guidance of a doctor.
Therefore, in daily life, you must pay attention to rest, pay attention to cleaning your mouth in time, eat more vegetables and fruits, avoid spicy food stimulation, control your emotions, and relieve the accumulated fire in your body. You can also supplement vitamins B and C.
4. Skin Itching
Skin itching is a very common disease in autumn, usually mainly on the trunk, and also common on the inner thighs, the back of the calves, and around the joints. This itching is mostly paroxysmal, and its severity and duration vary. However, it is generally induced or aggravated by eating irritating foods or when the temperature rises.
Many people like to take a shower every day, whether in summer or autumn. Experts point out that this is unscientific. In this season, bathing should not be too frequent, and soaps and shower gels with high alkalinity should not be used. At the same time, you should keep your bowels regular to expel accumulated allergens in the body and avoid inducing itching.
5. Habitual Constipation
After autumn, due to the dry climate, it is easy to have dry and difficult-to-pass stools. Its main manifestations are reduced frequency of bowel movements, hard stool, and the patient often has a feeling of abdominal distension in the lower left abdomen and a feeling of wanting to defecate but not being able to. Therefore, patients with habitual constipation in autumn should drink at least 2000-3000 ml of warm water daily to effectively prevent constipation.
6. Rhinitis
The temperature in autumn usually has a large day-night temperature difference. This climate characteristic leads to frequent attacks of rhinitis, especially for some people with allergic constitutions. In autumn, it is difficult to adapt to this climate change, so they are very prone to rhinitis or an attack of rhinitis.
If you experience frequent sneezing to the point of causing headaches, chest pain, or stomach pain, you must pay attention because these are typical symptoms of allergic rhinitis. At this time, you should pay special attention to keeping warm to avoid catching a cold, and ensure a light diet to stay away from allergens.
7. Preventing Autumn Dryness
Autumn should also pay attention to preventing autumn dryness. The part of the human body it harms the most is the lungs. Dry evil is most likely to attack the lungs, damage fluids, and consume body fluids, leading to "autumn dryness syndrome" such as dry nose, dry throat, hoarse voice, dry cough, and dry stools. Moreover, autumn dryness can easily cause upper respiratory tract infections, acute bronchitis, etc.
Therefore, in autumn, you should eat more foods that produce fluids and increase body fluids, such as sesame, pear, lotus root, banana, apple, tremella, lily, and persimmon, to moisten dryness and nourish the lungs.