Weather and health
Humans living in nature cannot live without the atmosphere. The earth's atmosphere has a changeable face, and sometimes the air pressure plummets and the heat wave surges. Sometimes the air pressure rises and the cold current rolls. The impermanent operation of the atmosphere and the sequence of cold coming and summer going have formed a natural phenomenon of myriad weather. This is not only related to human production and life, but also closely related to human health.
Changes in the weather will make people feel different about themselves. For example, when people feel "bone pain", "drowsiness" and "irritability", it often indicates that the weather is going to change, and arthritis patients are often called "small weather stations" because they can predict the weather changes.
The influence of weather on human body is not only some sensory discomfort, but also some chronic diseases, which is related to the influence of meteorological conditions on the functions of autonomic nerve and endocrine system. Ulcer is easy to occur in winter, and the pain of arthritis, old fracture and soft tissue injury is aggravated when the weather changes suddenly. When the cold current strikes, coronary heart disease, tracheitis and glaucoma worsen, and sudden weather changes lead to the death of the elderly and infirm.
The relationship between meteorological conditions and diseases can be direct or indirect. As the direct cause of the disease, meteorological factors, such as frostbite and heatstroke, will reflect a lot of ultraviolet rays in winter snow, which will illuminate people's retina and cause snow blindness; The indirect reason is that meteorological factors, as a non-specific stimulus to promote the recurrence of diseases, can affect the human body's resistance, so many diseases have obvious seasonality and are closely related to the periodic or non-periodic changes of weather. JE is mostly in summer and autumn; Measles, meningitis and scarlet fever are prevalent in winter and spring; Other diseases also have certain seasons. Please refer to the table below.
Weather and health
Wen Tian com (200 1 07-25 15:30)
In recent decades, many countries are actively exploring the relationship between meteorological environment and human health, clarifying the abstract environmental factors that induce many diseases, and formulating a series of effective preventive measures based on these studies to reduce the harm of climate change to human health.
Most diseases caused by meteorological and environmental factors are seasonal. When the weather changes suddenly, many colds and wheezing often increase suddenly within a few days. Patients with perforated gastric ulcer and hemoptysis. This phenomenon is mainly because it is difficult for the body to adjust in time with climate change and induce diseases. Medical scientific research not only confirms that rheumatic joint pain is related to the weather, but also finds that the incidence of hypertension and coronary heart disease suddenly increases every autumn and winter; Asthma often occurs in cold and dry winter; Migraine often occurs when the humidity is high, the air pressure drops sharply and the wind is strong. Some people think that the main causes of these diseases are: first, the difference of atmospheric pressure causes the changes of body tissue; Second, ultra-low frequency oscillation in strong wind has a bad influence on people's central nervous system. Causes headaches, palpitations, depression, anxiety and other symptoms; Third, the potential difference in the upper atmosphere increases, which makes the surrounding environment easy to produce electric and magnetic fields, which makes the autonomic nervous system of human body out of balance, causes endocrine disorders, and causes mental tension, emotional depression and psychological fatigue.
In view of the close relationship between meteorological environment and health, it is not only helpful to remind patients to take active preventive measures, but also helpful for medical staff to make targeted preparations for disease prevention and treatment by using meteorological observation data combined with disease characteristics. At present, meteorological departments in Germany, Japan, Russia, the United States and other countries cooperate with medical departments to issue "medical meteorological forecasts" through radio and television stations, so that people can prepare for disease prevention in advance. At present, some newspapers and radio stations in China. Television stations also began to introduce some common knowledge about seasonal disease prevention and control from time to time in combination with seasonal changes, which played a very good role in preventing meteorological and environmental diseases.