Reunion for the New Year, health and peace! Health precautions during the Spring Festival are →

Reunion for the New Year, health and peace

Shop for Chinese New Year goods, visit relatives and friends, taste delicious food...... As you welcome the Lunar New Year holiday with joy, there's one important thing you don't forget, and that's health. Combined with the characteristics of diseases during the previous holidays, the reporter's special health experts sorted out and summarized the health precautions during the Spring Festival and gave correct guidance.

Eat a nutritious diet with a balanced diet first

During the Spring Festival, the table dishes are more sumptuous. How to reasonably match ingredients and eat healthy?

Lei Min, deputy director of the Nutrition Department of the Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, said that the Spring Festival diet is usually dominated by meat, but meat contains a lot of fat, cholesterol and purines, and excessive intake can easily cause hyperlipidemia and fatty liver. Therefore, more attention should be paid to the combination of meat and vegetables, the selection of cooking methods, and the control of the amount of each meal.

Diet pairing. A variety of foods can meet the nutrients needed by the human body, such as the combination of thick and thin, meat and vegetables, grains and beans, cereals and potatoes, etc., and pay attention to cooking methods. During the festival, it is inevitable to eat a lot of big fish and meat, and it is easy to intake too many calories inadvertently, so when cooking food, we should pay attention to less salt, less oil, and less sugar; control the amount of each meal, it is recommended to eat eight points full at each meal, and do not eat too much, especially for overweight and obese people, eating too much will increase the burden on the stomach and intestines and the burden of glucose metabolism and lipid metabolism on the body.

In addition, it should be reminded that in the choice of drinks, you can drink some soy milk, barley tea or green tea in moderation, which can not only provide nutrients, but also regulate the gastrointestinal tract. In terms of snacks, you can choose snacks that are suitable for you according to your physical condition and meal intake, such as fruits, vegetables, sour milk and a small amount of nuts, etc., and the quantity should be controlled.

Have a regular routine and get a good night's sleep

During the Spring Festival, visiting relatives and friends is not lively. However, at this time, some people will say that the busyness and irregular life during the holiday season make people particularly prone to fatigue, dizziness and fatigue.

In this regard, Ma Jiangang, director of the Second Department of Otolaryngology of the Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, said that irregular work and rest, poor sleep, and long-term will reduce human immunity. Therefore, during the holidays, you should pay attention to regular work and rest to improve the quality of sleep.

On the one hand, the Spring Festival coincides with the beginning of spring, and spring is the season when yang energy rises. You should insist on lying down at night and getting up early to stretch your body. However, some people stay up until midnight when family and friends get together during the Spring Festival, while others sleep until noon because they don't have to rush to work on holidays. In fact, whether it is staying up late or sleeping lazily is not conducive to the rise of yang energy. Therefore, Ma Jiangang suggested that even if it is a holiday, you should not stay up late and sleep lazy, but should have a regular schedule and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

On the other hand, it is advisable to pay attention to these details of life. For example, don't eat too much or greasy dinner, don't drink alcohol four hours before bedtime, don't drink a lot of water before bedtime, avoid playing mobile phones and watching TV for a long time before going to bed, and don't engage in excessively stressful mental activities.

In addition, Ma Jiangang also said that exercise can help sleep, but it is necessary to pay attention to moderation. During exercise, the body secretes many hormones that help relax blood vessels, reduce anxiety, help relax and promote sleep. However, it is not advisable to do strenuous exercise before going to bed, as excessive exercise will make people feel tired, which has a certain impact on sleep.

Play in moderation, not indulgence

During the Spring Festival, family and friends reunite and inevitably have a good time. Meng Wenge, director of the emergency medicine department of Shijiazhuang People's Hospital, pointed out that playing poker and cards in moderation will bring laughter, but it should be noted that it is not allowed to play for a long time and excessively, especially for people with cardiovascular diseases, let alone indulge in entertainment.

Meng Wenge suggested that the time for entertainment should not exceed two hours. This is because it is easy to make the spirit highly nervous and emotional, especially the air in the house, which is dirty and foul. Such an environment is easy to increase the burden on the heart and damage liver health, and it is easy to cause respiratory diseases.

In particular, it needs to be reminded that the family is very happy for the New Year, especially the elderly, and what they are most looking forward to is the reunion of the whole family. However, it should be noted that "overjoyed and sad", because emotional excitement will excite the sympathetic nerves in the body and cause the heartbeat to speed up, blood flow to accelerate, and blood pressure to rise, accompanied by different degrees of hypertension, heart disease, arteriosclerosis and other underlying diseases, overly excited, easy to "happy and sad".

Drink in moderation and don't be greedy

During the Spring Festival, when relatives and friends get together, it is inevitable to have a good time. As the saying goes: drink pleasantly, get drunk and hurt your body. So, how to drink alcohol so that you are not easy to get drunk, what should you pay attention to after drinking, and can you drink alcohol when you are sick and take medicine?

In this regard, Liu Zhenzhong, deputy director of the Sixth Department of Infectious Diseases of Shijiazhuang Fifth Hospital, suggested that eating before drinking, drinking alcohol on an empty stomach will make the blood alcohol concentration rise suddenly, which is not only easy to get drunk but also hurt the liver. Therefore, before drinking, you should eat a few mouthfuls of food to cushion your stomach; drink more water during drinking, and drink more plain water between drinking, which can accelerate the excretion of alcohol from the urine and reduce the burden on the liver; drink alcohol more slowly, drink in small sips, and it is not only easy to get drunk with a heavy pour, but also cause greater damage to the respiratory tract, stomach and other organs.

Talking about what to pay attention to after drinking, Liu Zhenzhong said: Don't take a shower immediately after drinking, don't drink a lot of coffee, strong tea and soft drinks, don't blow the wind after drinking, don't exercise vigorously, don't go to bed immediately after drinking, and don't drive after drinking.

At the same time, in response to the question of whether many citizens can drink alcohol when they are sick and take medicine, Liu Zhenzhong said that drinking alcohol during medication is a dangerous behavior. You need to read the instructions carefully before taking the drug, and if the instructions clearly state that "it is not advisable to drink alcohol during the medication", you should avoid drinking alcohol. In addition, the period of medication is not only when taking the drug, but also the time of metabolism of the drug, it is usually recommended not to drink alcohol for a week after stopping the drug, and some drugs are metabolized for a longer time, so you should not drink alcohol for a longer time.

Take your medication regularly and avoid agitation

According to Feng Rui, deputy director of the Department of Pharmacy of the Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, during the Spring Festival, some people with chronic diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension and other long-term medication patients, feel that it is okay to stop taking medicine for a few days, coupled with emotional agitation, it is easy to induce the onset of chronic diseases.

Feng Rui said that once the antihypertensive drugs and hypoglycemic drugs are stopped, it will affect the treatment of diseases, plus eating too much during the festival, exercising less, and increasing blood viscosity, which can easily lead to the aggravation of pre-existing diseases, such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, complications caused by diabetes, etc. Therefore, people with chronic diseases who are being treated with medication must not stop taking medicine without authorization during the festival, and must adhere to the treatment, and seek medical attention in time if they feel unwell.

In addition, in view of the climate and festival characteristics during the Spring Festival, Feng Rui reminded that cold is a major cause of chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The Spring Festival holiday is in the alternating season of winter and spring, the climate is changeable, and frequent visits to relatives and friends, so patients with a history of chronic diseases should pay attention to keeping warm when going out.

Being too busy during the festival and irregular life and rest will cause fatigue, increase the burden on the heart, and easily lead to the aggravation of chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease and heart failure. Therefore, patients with chronic diseases should pay attention to rest more to ensure sleep time and sleep quality.

During the Spring Festival, relatives and friends reunite after a long absence, and they are often easy to get emotional. This can lead to increased blood pressure, coronary artery spasm, increased myocardial oxygen consumption, angina pectoris, and even acute myocardial infarction. Therefore, during the festive season, patients with chronic diseases should maintain emotional stability and avoid joy and sorrow. (Yanzhao Metropolis Daily, Overview News Reporter Tan Yanan)