What should we pay attention to in the dog days of summer?

The dog days are the hottest time of the year and the high incidence of many diseases. Healthy walkers teach you the tricks of keeping fit in dog days.

Don't be greedy. Staying in an air-conditioned room for a long time can easily lead to the imbalance of body adjustment ability and various discomforts. Therefore, it is best to turn on the air conditioner less, especially for children, pregnant women and the elderly with arthritis, rheumatism and respiratory diseases. Even if it is turned on, the appropriate temperature is 26℃, ensuring that the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor exceeds 7℃; Let the air conditioner blow upward, avoid blowing directly on the body, and protect the neck, back, abdomen, waist, legs and other parts. Don't take a bath after sweating to avoid being attacked by wind, cold and humidity. Eating cold fruits and vegetables in summer is easy to cause gastroenteritis. When eating cold drinks, it is best to wait until the temperature of the food is close to the body temperature before swallowing it slowly, so as not to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, and the best time to eat is between noon and 3 pm, when the yang is the strongest. After a cold, you can drink ginger tea to sweat and dispel the cold.

Eat appetizers. As soon as they enter the dog days, many people will be troubled by the "bitter summer", and their mouths will be dull and their appetite will be lost. Therefore, "appetizing" is the focus of summer health. Experts suggest that you can eat more bitter food in summer. Bitter gourd, bitter vegetable and bitter buckwheat can relieve fever, strengthen spleen and stimulate appetite. However, bitter gourd is cold, and people with poor constitution and deficiency of spleen and stomach should not eat more. The weather is very hot, sweating a lot, and it is easy to consume gas and hurt yin. Therefore, it is also essential to replenish qi and nourish yin. Yam, jujube, honey, lotus root and fungus are all good choices. In addition, chicken and duck meat, lean meat and other meat products with flat or cool nature also have the effects of nourishing yin, nourishing stomach, strengthening spleen and tonifying deficiency.

Eliminating dampness. In the hot and humid dog days, the human body is easily attacked by moisture. To deal with summer damp heat, you can press Zusanli point, which is helpful to transport water and eliminate dampness. Soaking feet with 40℃ warm water before going to bed can eliminate dampness and improve sleep quality. You can also sweat on purpose and let the moisture go out with the sweat. It is also helpful to eat more foods that strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. Boiling porridge with adzuki bean, mung bean and lotus leaf, making tea with Herba Agastaches, Eupatorium odoratum and Rhizoma Atractylodis, and boiling water with ginger slices all have the effect of eliminating dampness. Although pepper can stimulate appetite and help digestion, it has a general effect of eliminating dampness. It is worth reminding that mung bean soup must not be drunk as water. People with cold mung beans and weak constitution should not drink more.