Midsummer also need anti-influenza (August health prompted one)
Published :2012 -08-14
The August Health Tip one: midsummer also need anti-influenza
7 , 8 two months Shanghai temperature maximum sustained high temperature time year by year increase, exceeding35 ° C high temperature days the number of 10 days or so; previous years, Shanghai 8 month average maximum temperature of 32.5 ° C, the mean minimum temperature of 24.7 ° C, extreme maximum temperature of 39 ° C ( 1998 )extreme minimum temperature of 21 ° C (1980 years ) .
Hot summer , people like to find a variety of another way to cooling : greedy large number of cold, long-term outside to enjoy the cool air, and out of air-conditioned rooms, shower with cold water after exercise ... when the "cold" it is easy to find the door. Because if human encounter external stimuli to the body cold blood will suddenly cooled reflective moment ischemic cause nose, throat , weakened immunity , the flu virus can take advantage of.
Susceptible to reason
Generally people attach great importance to the prevention of winter cold and spring cold , summer cold, more and more people , especially low resistance weak infants. Then in the summer, why people prone to colds do ?
Summer colds caused by intrinsic reasons : the secretion of sweat glands will consume a lot of energy in the hot summer climate , human sweat more ; short summer, day and night , the muggy weather often affects people's sleep and rest , leading to lack of sleep ; summer , many people loss of appetite , mainly light food , affecting the protein intake ;due to the hot weather , some people do not want to exercise reduce exercise time. These factors will cause the decline in the body's immunity , so take advantage of cold virus cause colds. The external cause excessive summer cold caused Tanliang. If hot sweating punch with cold water or cold baths ; Some people love to enjoy the cool under a tree or sleeping by the cold ; some people sleep a fan or air conditioning temperature adjustment low , these Tanliang behavior is very easy to make a cold. Especially with the increasing popularity of air conditioning in the family , the people just for the sake of the cool air-conditioning open too long , plus indoor and outdoor temperature difference is too large , a moment can not adapt to the human body , these are the factors that cause summer cold , worthy of our attention.
The foot is very sensitive to cold feet started chills when temperatures plunged , in turn caused by reflex nasal mucosa vasoconstriction. Therefore , susceptible to colds usually should pay attention to the foot warm , sleep at night, do not let the foot gel is cold outside. In addition , the summer cold is not only related to climate , and some people living a lifestyle is closely related.
The incidence of pathogens
First, eat more salty cold easily. Such as excess salt , the secretion of saliva will be reduced , the content is also a corresponding reduction in oral lysozyme , which created the conditions for the virus in the upper respiratory tract mucosa survival , plus on the sodium salt infiltration , epithelial cells was inhibited , and reduce the secretion of cytokines include interferons, including antiviral. At this time , the cold virus neuraminidase play a role in the mucosal cells of the upper respiratory tract , and opportunity to infiltration induced colds.
The second is to use an old toothbrush easy to colds. The toothbrush often in a wet state , the bristles Xijian prone to bacteria and viruses , especially colds , should be timely replacement toothbrush or disinfected to prevent recurrence.Toothbrush disinfection method : every three days or a week , containing 250 mg / L chlorine chlorine disinfectant or 150mg / l of chlorine dioxide soaked toothbrush , rinse thoroughly with half an hour later. Toothbrush after use should be drying , and the brush head upward placed.
Third, the mental stress of common cold. Mental stress can reduce the immune system's defense capability , people susceptible to colds. British scientists psychological tests on 394 volunteers , the determination of the degree of tension for everyone , and then isolated from the outside world for 9 days , 10 days by the researchers liquid containing the cold virus was dropped into the nostrils of the subjects. Found that the incidence rate of 47%, on the contrary only 27% of the incidence of nervous cold . The inspection also found that nasopharyngeal interferon of nervousness test group, nucleic acid enzymes topical antiviral substances is significantly less than that of the comparison group.
Cold types and symptoms
Summer cold symptoms are generally divided into Shushi cold, heat, cold, stomach flu. Heat cold and Shushi cold in the summer , students feel the heat.
The Shushi colds occur in the summer rainy season. Disease in the muscular form coke stomach , not Young outside the fever, head and body weight difficulties , abdominal swelling nausea inside of the chest , stomach anddigestive system dysfunction , pulse number , mouth dry and drink no more than tongue Although tired and less yellow.If the Shushi Fanfei , the lung is unclear , but also have a cough sticky sputum , nasal symptoms stream turbid nasal discharge.
Heat cold due to the long drought Night raw , pure yang heat syndrome. The important feature of such a cold is hot as prominent a type of severe symptoms seasons cold. The heat of evil invasion of lung health , the hot steam muscle table , Hao Shang-chun, gas , fever, micro-bad cold, sweating heat reclaim, upset, thirst, yellow fur , floating pulse large number of clinical manifestations.
Stomach flu occurred in the summer , mainly the use of air conditioning , indoor and outdoor temperature is too large , or hot summer days where temperatures plunged result of belonging to a cold one. Patients with fever, headache, runny nose on mild respiratory symptoms , poor appetite, nausea, vomiting , and often accompanied by faint abdominal pain, diarrhea. Mainly diarrhea, watery stools , it is often misdiagnosed as acute gastroenteritis. The difference is that the disease with acute gastroenteritis , acute gastroenteritis generally have a history of consuming contaminated food , check stool routine can see the red white blood cells , white blood cells will be elevated blood examination. Gastrointestinal flu patients stool examination is normal , normal or low blood WBC.
Precaution
Summer cold did not cause complications , such as the head or other parts, especially pain , or long continuous high fever antipyretic analgesics , patients only need to eat , plus enough rest , generally can be cured in a week or so.The patients also drink plenty of water , because the summer people great demand for water , coupled with easy on a cold fever , and the fever is the process of struggle of the human body and bacteria will consume a large amount of body fluids.
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To deal with summer colds , in addition to drink plenty of water, more exercise, plenty of sleep , should also spare some of the right drug at home , such as traditional Chinese patent medicines Huoxiangzhengqi liquid. It is not only for summer colds caused all kinds of headaches, dizziness, fever, nausea and vomiting are extremely effective ; but also the treatment of a variety of heat symptoms and air conditioning disease caused irritability, fatigue, weakness, loss of appetite, dizziness, fever, etc. ; as well as to protect the gastrointestinal reduce the function of the digestive tract disease.