With the improvement of people's health awareness, all kinds of health and health knowledge are overwhelming, especially on the Internet, where various "popular science" articles or videos can be seen everywhere.
Some of these so-called popular sciences seem to be justified, but in fact they are completely misleading readers. Coupled with the lack of good discernment ability of ordinary people, this makes it easy for people to believe in these "pseudo-popular science".
It is not terrible to believe in pseudo-popular science, but what is terrible is the serious consequences that it will bring. There was once a reader, because he believed in the pseudo-science of "drinking alcohol and blushing means that the amount of alcohol is good", at a class reunion, he had obviously drunk too much, but he still insisted on drinking, which led to severe gastric mucosal erosion and bleeding, and when he was sent to the hospital, he had liver damage.
The following "pseudo-popular science", see if you have been recruited?
1. The redder your face is when you drink, the more you can drink
Drinking alcohol is easy to blush, in fact, it is related to the low activity of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 in the human body and poor alcohol metabolism. Due to the low activity of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 in the body, acetaldehyde cannot be metabolized well and accumulates in the body.
At this point, acetaldehyde dilates blood vessels, causing symptoms such as flushing, rapid heartbeat, and headaches. In addition, a study on the carcinogenesis of alcohol consumption published in the journal Nature clearly pointed out that people who drank alcohol and blushed had a higher risk of cancer.
2. Take medicine as soon as you catch a cold
It is the consensus of many people to take medicine when you have a cold, and sometimes even if you are unwilling to take medicine, your family will say that it is not responsible for your body. In fact, cold medicine cannot cure colds, colds are generally caused by viruses, which are upper respiratory tract infections, cold medicines cannot kill these viruses, and the effect of cold medicine is only to relieve symptoms.
What really kills viruses is our immune system. After the virus invades, it takes a certain amount of time for our immune system to respond and then destroy the virus, which is usually 5-7 days.
Of course, if the cold symptoms make you very uncomfortable, you can take medication to relieve them. In addition, people with weakened or impaired immunity, patients with high blood pressure and patients with chronic diseases should be relieved by medication in time to avoid aggravation of symptoms and other symptoms.
3. The food is too hot to put in the refrigerator
There are many people who like to wait for the food to be cold before putting it in the refrigerator, thinking that the food is too hot and the refrigerator will burn the refrigerator, which does seem to make some sense.
However, as everyone knows, microorganisms are very active in the environment of 7-60 °C, and with nutrients such as oil, the reproduction rate can be said to be amazing. If there are 10,000 microorganisms on food, if stored at room temperature for 2 hours, it will usually divide 6 times, which means that 640,000 microorganisms will multiply.
In other words, the process of waiting for the food to get cold has actually grown a lot of bacteria and microorganisms.
In fact, as long as we pack the food in plastic wrap or a crisper box before putting it in the refrigerator, we don't have to worry about water vapor condensation causing frost in the refrigerator. As for the damage caused to the refrigerator, the refrigerator is no longer an uncommon thing, and what is the refrigerator in the face of health!
Fourth, more massage can improve cervical spondylosis
People with cervical spondylosis may have a deep feeling after massage, that is, cervical spondylosis has indeed been relieved a lot after massage, so more and more people feel that more massage can improve cervical spondylosis.
In fact, massage only relieves muscle tension for a short period of time, and generally treats the symptoms but not the root cause, especially if the method is not right, it may also cause "tissue edema", destroy the stability of the cervical spine, and even aggravate cervical spondylosis.
If cervical spondylosis is spinal, improper massage is more likely to cause an impact on the spinal cord, resulting in spinal cord injury, and the consequences are often more severe.
5. Stomach ulcers are caused by diet
When they hear about stomach ulcers, many people think that they are caused by frequent drinking, spicy and cold food. In fact, the main cause of stomach ulcers is Helicobacter pylori infection, which is usually caused by sharing meals and chewing feeding.
6. Living in hotels and hostels will contract sexually transmitted diseases
If you will contract STDs when you live in hotels and hostels, then so many people who live in hotels every year will not be tired of the STD department!
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are highly vulnerable and generally inactivated soon after leaving the human body, so STDs are most often transmitted through sexual, blood, and mother-to-child transmission.
Seventh, fish bones stuck in the throat and drinking vinegar can be solved
This is theoretically possible because vinegar is acidic. But the theory is the theory after all, although vinegar can soften the fish bones, but the softening of the acid takes a long time, and the vinegar through the fish bones is very short, plus the concentration of acetic acid in the vinegar is often very low, which means that the actual operation does not play a role in softening.
If you try to soften the fish bones by drinking vinegar, it means drinking a lot of vinegar in a row, and then the fish bones are not softened and you are killed first.
Generally, if the position of the fish bone card is shallow, you can first bend down and bow your head and try to cough hard to cough out the fish bone. If the location of the fish bone card is deep, do not hesitate to seek medical attention immediately.
8. Sleeping on a hard bed can protect your waist
Many people feel that the harder the bed board, the better it is for the lumbar spine, and some people even go out of their way to sleep on a hard bed.
In fact, the support of the hard bed to the body is not even at all, the normal physiological structure of the human body is S-shaped physiological bending from the side, when the person lies on the hard bed, the buttocks and back are the main stress points, and the waist is often suspended.
It's okay to lie on a hard bed for a minute or two, but if you keep it for a long time, your waist muscles will be tense all the time, which can easily lead to soreness and strain in your lumbar muscles.
9. Faint and fall into a coma to pinch someone
The irritation and pain caused by pinching people will indeed excite the respiratory and circulatory system, but this can only be used to judge the patient's consciousness, and it cannot be used to treat the patient at all.
And when we pinch the middle of the person with the thumb, the remaining fingers will naturally be placed on the chin and forced, which will make the patient's mouth tightly closed, and the secretions and vomit in the mouth cannot be discharged.
In addition, when the finger is pressed down, the patient will lower his head and aggravate the tongue fall, which can easily lead to airway blockage and even aggravate the condition.
When faced with a comatose and fainted patient, we should first call the emergency number, then make the surrounding environment safe and ventilated, and determine whether the patient is breathing and has a heartbeat.
If there is no breathing heartbeat, chest compressions should be performed promptly, and if there is a respiratory heartbeat, the mouth should be quickly cleaned and the patient should be placed on his or her back with the chin elevated to keep the airway open.
10. Walk 10,000 steps a day and live past 100 years old
Many people think that the more they walk, the healthier they are, but they don't know that this excessive exercise can not only lead to chronic joint damage, but also may have adverse effects on muscles and bones.
According to the recommendations of the Chinese Nutrition Society, it is best to take 6,000 steps a day for physical activity, but the exact number of steps still varies from person to person.
Although the standard of living has improved now, everyone pays more attention to health preservation, but it is still necessary to improve the ability to discriminate, and don't be blinded by those "pseudo-popular science".