what should the elderly pay attention to when traveling? It is the crisp autumn season, and many elderly people also want to take advantage of the good weather to travel. However, the physical quality of the elderly is poor, so we must make good plans before traveling. So what should the elderly pay attention to when traveling? In case of accidents, the elderly should be cautious when traveling, and they should go hand in hand and take care of each other when riding by car, boat and climbing mountains. At the same time, we should carefully arrange the journey to minimize fatigue. Old people who are allergic to allergies should try to avoid flowers, or take chlorpheniramine, Anqimin and other drugs orally in advance to prevent allergies. Anti-motion sickness people who often suffer from motion sickness can take drugs such as Dizzy Haining, Phenergan or Anning with them and take them half an hour before the trip. You can also use your own needle to prick Neiguan (two inches in the middle of the palm wrist) and Zusanli (three inches outside the knee and directly below the knee eye), or massage yourself, or do qigong to guard these two points. When the elderly go out, it is best to take a cane to prevent them from falling. Once you fall, don't rush to get up, you should find out the reason before dealing with it. If you fall on the uneven ground, it may be related to the road. Pay attention to whether it is broken; If you fall in the toilet, it may be syncope or cerebrovascular accident caused by defecation; If the face is pale and the pulse is unclear, it may be an orthostatic hypotension reaction. Therefore, after simple treatment, it will be sent to a nearby hospital for treatment. To prevent dysentery, pay attention to food hygiene when eating out, and don't eat raw, cold and unclean things. Take some berberine tablets or compound sulfamethoxazole tablets with you in case of emergency. To prevent colds, the weather is changeable in autumn. When you go out, you should bring enough clothes and rain gear. Don't sit on the wet ground, and don't stand in the wind to avoid catching cold. Wash your feet with hot water before going to bed, and properly pad your feet when sleeping to promote blood circulation of your feet. Choosing the right season is a good time for young people to travel all the year round. Even in the cold winter, they can walk through the snow and enjoy the natural scenery wrapped in red makeup, but for the elderly, they can't do whatever they want. For the elderly suffering from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, cold weather is not suitable for traveling, and hot summer is not suitable for the elderly. It is easy to cause heatstroke. Therefore, the best time should be spring and autumn. Some people suggest that the warm spring in bloom and the fragrance of osmanthus are the best time for the elderly to travel. Choosing suitable scenic spots, China has a vast territory and beautiful mountains and rivers. There are many famous mountains and beautiful waters in the country, but for the elderly, it is advisable to travel less, play more with water and visit more classical gardens, because it is inevitable to climb mountains and take risks. After all, the legs and feet of the elderly are not as good as those of young people. If you visit the classical gardens and enjoy the lakes and waters, there will be no climbing effort. If you can visit the West Lake in Zhejiang, Taihu Lake in Wuxi and classical gardens in Suzhou, these charming scenery can also make you pleasing to the eye and beautiful. Choose a reputable travel agency When the elderly go out to travel, they must go collectively and choose a reputable travel agency. Old people can take part in old people's tour groups, or they can travel together or with their families, but it is best not to travel alone by one or two old people. In this way, accidents are not conducive to mutual rescue and are not safe. Before leaving, you should have a physical examination. Older people should have a physical examination before traveling and get the doctor's consent before they can go. You should have a health check-up before going out to fully grasp your physical condition. Then, according to their physical condition and illness, choose tourist spots and arrange travel schedules. If you can be far, you can be far away. If you can't be far, you can be close. Don't be forced. After departure, you should introduce your illness to the accompanying health care doctor in time, and when traveling alone or together, you should be accompanied by someone to take care of it. Some old people who are traveling together are not old and have a good spirit. However, physical strength has gradually declined with age, which is also a natural law. How can a 61-to 71-year-old grandfather compare with a young man in his twenties and thirties? Ideally, the old man should walk with a younger person. So that we can take care of each other. In addition, you need to bring a crutch with you to help you and ensure safe walking. Take some necessary medicines. These medicines include two types. First, take some medicines to prevent and treat chronic diseases, such as those with hypertension, diabetes and coronary heart disease. Although they have no symptoms when traveling, they should be prepared and take some necessary medicines. The second is to bring some drugs to prevent motion sickness, seasickness, diarrhea, anti-inflammatory or laxative. When you are away from home, your living habits have changed, which is easy to cause constipation and diarrhea due to acclimatization. In addition, you should also bring some ointment, alcohol, cotton wool, mercurochrome and other items. Take clothes properly in spring and autumn, the weather changes a lot and the temperature difference is large, especially in spring, as the saying goes: "Spring is like a child's insurance. Change three times a day. " The temperature in the morning and evening is quite different. Therefore, you must bring more light and warm clothes to facilitate shouting and replacement. It is best to wear a pair of adequate, soft and breathable shoes. With adequate shoes, you can ensure a smooth trip. A week is generally appropriate for a moderate travel time. This is because traveling for too long and consuming too much physical strength is not good for health, which requires "enough is enough". Pay attention to proper rest. Older people's physical energy consumption is faster. Therefore, during the journey, you must not force yourself to do exercises beyond your physical strength, be diligent in rest, and ensure the quality of rest. Especially at night, it is best not to stay up late, and ensure at least eight hours of quality sleep every day, which is more conducive to the next day's travel plan. Pay attention to food safety The so-called "illness from the mouth", the gastrointestinal function of the elderly is degraded, so we should pay more attention to food hygiene, don't eat at food stalls casually, and pay attention to the diet should not be too much or too little, just feel a little full, and try to eat less indigestible food and eat more fresh fruits and vegetables. Don't spoil your stomach by eating some special snacks. To prevent being deceived now, many fraudsters use the characteristics of some old people who are greedy and cheap and simple-minded, to lure them into being deceived. Old people should pay attention to it. In this society, there are too few things that fall from the sky. Even if they do, the outline of hitting your head is minimal. Therefore, when traveling abroad, don't trust strangers easily, and don't accept things that others give or get easily. It is probably a trap set by scammers. Pay attention to replenish water during the journey. Water is an essential substance for the human body, especially for the elderly. This can help the body promote metabolism and slow down aging. Therefore, when traveling, you must bring enough drinking water, and when you are thirsty, you should replenish water in time. Especially in summer, the evaporation of human body water is accelerated. At this time, we must pay attention to the supplement of water. In addition, we can also add a little salt to the water appropriately to supplement the salt taken away by sweat. When traveling or participating in outdoor activities, you should pay attention to protecting joints and reducing joint wear. In case of accidents such as fractures, you should learn to save yourself. 1, calf cramps when traveling, because of walking more than usual (especially hiking), gastrocnemius muscle fatigue, calf cramps are also common. There are many methods to treat calf cramps, which are also simple and easy. They all relax local muscles to achieve the purpose of relieving pain. Rotation method: get up and sit, straighten the cramped leg, hold the forefoot with your hand, and rotate your ankle outward. As long as the action is consistent and powerful, you can usually stop the pain immediately. Leg-pulling method: Take a sitting position, press the cramped calf muscles with one hand, pull the foot backwards with one hand to bend the foot back, and then move the foot up and down to relieve the cramp. If the symptoms are not completely relieved by the above methods, hot towels and hot water bottles can be applied to the legs and abdomen instead. Hot compress can effectively promote blood circulation of muscles and relieve spasm. If you have cramps while swimming, you can straighten your thighs as far as possible, push your heels forward, and pull your big toes in the direction of your body with your hands, repeatedly until the symptoms disappear. 2, sprain sprain often occurs in the ankle, waist, neck and wrist. Under normal circumstances, let the patient calm down, fix the injured part, and cover the affected part with a cold wet cloth. People with sprained neck and waist should not move the affected part when carrying. Sprain is often accompanied by joint dislocation or fracture. No matter how serious it is, don't take a bath or massage immediately. You must be sent to the hospital for treatment immediately. In addition, if it is an ankle sprain, in addition to immediate cold compress, it should be fixed with a wide cloth strip or cloth bag; If you want to continue walking, don't take off your shoes. If your feet are swollen and you can't put on your shoes, you can fix them with your feet and go to the orthopedics department of a nearby hospital. 3. Fracture Fracture can be divided into closed fracture without wound and open fracture with wound. The most common symptoms of fractures are severe pain and swelling, inability to touch, and inability to move limbs normally. Sometimes, due to severe pain or excessive bleeding, it can also cause shock. When a fracture occurs, let the patient lie flat immediately, and call the emergency number to take the patient to the hospital. For an open fracture, first stop bleeding. If there is less bleeding, press the wound with a clean cloth. If there is a large amount of bleeding from limb fracture, it must be tied tightly with a belt above the upper arm or thigh, and the belt should be loosened every 21 minutes to relax for 2 minutes until the bleeding stops. If the fracture is in a part other than the limbs, press the upper part of the blood vessel (near the heart) with the palm of your hand to block the source of blood until the blood stops. When the spine is fractured, it is necessary to prevent paralysis caused by careless injury to the spinal cord. When carrying the wounded, the fracture should not be moved at all. Three people should carry the waist, abdomen and lower limbs of the wounded at the same time, with the same level and in step, and put the wounded on the stretcher. If it is a neck fracture, one person needs to hold the head of the injured person to prevent the head from swinging, and then send it to the hospital for treatment. After limb fracture, in order to avoid damage to local muscles, blood vessels, nerves, etc., it is necessary to prevent dislocation of the fracture end and not to force it to be reset. In order to avoid infection, the fractured end exposed outside the wound can be covered with a clean handkerchief and towel, and then tied together with the injured limb with a healthy limb or a wooden stick or board. When elderly patients with chronic diseases travel, besides preventing new diseases, they should pay special attention to the dynamics of old diseases, predict their possible situations, adjust their travel plans or stop traveling in time, and seek medical advice in time.