Hypertensive patients
Air conditioned room
Every hot summer, in order to enjoy a comfortable life, whether working or sleeping, people will use air conditioning (in this case, air conditioning).
In fact, air conditioning is slowly weakening the body's ability to resist diseases, reducing the ability of people to adapt to the natural environment. Some people have gradually become dependent on the air-conditioned environment, highlighting that people's ability to adapt to the external natural environment is significantly weakened, and as a result, the body will become weaker and weaker. Air conditioning is slowly harming human health.
Air conditioning is even more harmful to patients with hypertension.
First, understand how high blood pressure in hypertension is caused. The increase in blood pressure in hypertension is mainly caused by narrowing blood vessels and blood viscosity, which causes blood flow to become slower, so that the blood supply to some organs is insufficient, and the heart automatically adapts to strengthen the contractility, increase blood supply, and ensure the normal blood supply of ischemic organs. This is also a normal reaction of the body's self-regulating system. Either way, it is because some organs, such as the heart, brain, kidneys, etc., are ischemic and hypoxic, and the heart increases the pressure and increases the blood pressure.
1. Air conditioning can constrict blood vessels. Any substance has the characteristics of thermal expansion and contraction, and the greater the temperature change, the more obvious it is. This is especially true of blood vessels, which can shrink and narrow them, exacerbating the inadequate supply of blood to the organs and raising blood pressure.
2. Air conditioning will cause the sweat glands to close. Sweat glands are not blocked, affecting normal metabolism and secretion of metabolites, affecting the discharge of wet poisons. Too many metabolites, in the blood vessels not only increase the viscosity of the blood, but also increase the blood volume, will increase blood pressure.
3. Because of the constriction of blood vessels, slower blood flow and increased blood viscosity, the blood vessels in some parts (such as the heart, brain, etc.) can form blood clots, block blood vessels, easily induce coronary heart disease angina attacks, and even cerebral infarction and myocardial infarction. Because of the cold, every winter is the season with the highest incidence of cerebral infarction and myocardial infarction, so it is best not to use air conditioning especially for some elderly people with a history of cerebral infarction and myocardial infarction.
4. In the closed air-conditioning space, the air stops flowing, which is easy to cause insufficient oxygen, but the harmful gas increases. Originally, people with hypertension have a state of lack of oxygen in the organs, and the lack of air circulation is more severe and the lack of oxygen will further increase the blood pressure.
5, closed-loop air conditioning room, like an artificial vegetable cultivation shed, although the artificial environment is comfortable, but with the outside world to adapt to poor, if once you leave, when integrated into the outside world, life is likely to be unbearable, the physique will become weaker and weaker, it is more difficult to withstand the four changes in the nature of heaven and earth.
6. The environment of hot and cold accelerates the damage to the cardiovascular system. Patients who have long taken Western medicines to maintain blood pressure have weakened the resistance of parts of the body because of the side effects of the drug. When often repeatedly leaving or entering the air chamber, the change of one cold and one hot will have a violent impact on the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular vessels, aggravate the damage of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular vessels, and easily induce cerebral infarction or myocardial infarction.
7. Chinese medicine believes that the movement of blood is the result of qi pushing. Qi is a kind of power, and blood circulation is impaired and blood stasis is formed, which is a manifestation of insufficient qi. Blood belongs to yin, qi belongs to yang, this kind of qi is also called yang qi, is the "warm" "qi", the most susceptible to cold gas damage. Damage to yang qi can aggravate blood stasis, and congestion can easily induce stroke or chest palsy.
Some people say that the weather is too hot now, and it is impossible to fall asleep without air conditioning, and if you do not sleep well, it will also increase your blood pressure. This is all common people's thinking.
In fact, there are also many people who have slowly become accustomed to it because they have changed the environment. It is a little uncomfortable at first, but can gradually adapt after a period of time.
Here are a few suggestions:
1. Change the working or sleeping environment. If possible, you can choose to go to the first floor or a place with less sunlight and a relatively low temperature. When it is still hot, use an electric fan, it is best not to blow on a certain part of the body, so that the air can circulate.
2, before going to bed, first turn on the air conditioner to cool the room, and then open the room door and window to ensure convection of air in the room, and then go to bed, and then use the electric fan when feeling hot.
3, can not avoid the work room, the air conditioning can not be opened too low, do not close the doors and windows, to ensure air circulation. The temperature difference should not be too large, and it is best to keep the skin slightly sweaty.
4, do not worry about sweating too much. Some people, the body sweating is very nervous, think that sweat is blood, sweat more will dry up the body's blood, make the blood thicker, make the body more weak. Actually this is not the right idea. Sweating during activity is a manifestation of the body's strong metabolism, but also the result of detoxification (metabolites), proper sweating is beneficial to the body, so some people say that "it is better to sweat properly than to eat a tonic.". Especially for those patients with hypertension who have phlegm wet, yang deficiency and obesity, appropriate sweating has a promoting effect on the cure of the disease and physical health.
Nowadays, many large and medium-sized cities have built sweat steam halls, the purpose is also to promote perspiration, moisture removal, detoxification, so as to play a role in physical health care. However, it is worth noting that when sweating a lot, it is necessary to supplement the appropriate salt and water in time, otherwise it will lead to imbalances in the body's internal water and various ions, including calcium, which may appear "root pumping" or be prone to heat stroke.
5. Learn to adapt to nature. The World Health Organization's health requirements are: in addition to no physical disease or no weakness, but also include physical, psychological and social adaptation to be considered healthy. It shows that a person must be healthy and adapt to social, natural, and environmental changes. If a person relies on a comfortable environment under air conditioning for a long time to adapt to life or work, it means that the body is unhealthy, there is a tendency to develop disease, and sooner or later it will get sick. And Chinese medicine advocates the "unity of heaven and man", a person adapts to the changes in the four seasons of the year, and the body will be healthy and long-lived.
6. Turn on the cold air less and protect the yang. Yang qi is the source of normal physical functioning. "Everything grows by the sun" shows how important all things are to the sun. The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic says: "The yang qi of the human body is as important as the sun in the sky, and if the yang qi loses its normal position and cannot play its important role, the person will lose his life or die prematurely, and the life function will be weak and insufficient." ”
Therefore, the normal operation and change of nature, the environment, and the four seasons of the year are manifested by the light of the sun, and the running power of various organs in the human body is the result of the action of yang qi. Yang Qi has the effect of protecting the body against external evils.
Japanese health expert Ishihara said in his book "Disease Comes from the Cold", "Studies have shown that if the body temperature is reduced by one degree, the immunity will be reduced by more than 30%, on the contrary, if the body temperature is increased by one degree on the basis of normal body temperature, the immunity will increase by 5-6 times." ”
Reducing the cold air and protecting the body's yang is of great significance for curing hypertension or promoting good health.
This concludes the topic.
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