The hot summer is suitable for swimming. Be careful of these diseases while swimming.
In summer, hot weather occurs every day. At this time, everyone’s favorite exercise is swimming. This kind of exercise is very beneficial to our health and can play a very good role. It has an exercise effect and can help us clear away heat, but there are still many things we should pay attention to when swimming in summer. Let’s take a look.
Beware of acute otitis externa
In summer, ear care is more important. In addition to people doing more swimming exercises, high temperature and humidity can accelerate the growth of bacteria and fungi, resulting in " Swimmer’s Ear”. A common cause of otitis externa is swimming pool water entering the ears. At this time, many people will plug their ears with cotton or other objects. However, in fact, our best way is to retain earwax and let it protect your ears. If we can retain By keeping earwax in place, you can protect your ears from swimmer's ear infections. Of course, if your ears get water after swimming, they must be dried immediately. First, tilt your head to one side to allow water to flow out of the ear canal, and gently pull the earlobe in all directions to help the water drain away. If there is any remaining water, you can use a hair dryer to dry it. This is a situation that we very much need to pay attention to. If we cannot pay attention to this problem, it will undoubtedly easily lead to damage to our ears.
Beware of skin allergies
A public swimming pool is actually like a big dye vat. People of all types squeeze into it, bringing in a lot of germs. In addition, the cost of changing water in public swimming pools is high, and it basically takes a long time to change the water. As a result, a small swimming pool has become a hotbed, filled with a large number of bacteria and viruses. Therefore, skin allergies are very easy to occur. This is something that everyone should be careful about. Skin allergies are very common nowadays. When swimming, a large area of our skin is in direct contact with water, so we must be careful about allergies.
If you are allergic to chlorine in the swimming pool water and it is not very serious, it is best not to use any ointment or the like. After swimming, just rinse your body carefully with warm water, preferably warmer water. Clean, minor allergies will heal quickly. If your allergies are severe, don't swim.
The situations introduced above are what we should pay attention to in summer. It can be found that everyone likes to swim in summer, but in fact there are many situations that we need to pay attention to when swimming, especially We must pay attention to the above situations and prevent these diseases so that we can swim healthier.