How should middle-aged and elderly people maintain health and care in their daily lives? What should we pay attention to in maintaining health? Let me explain the relevant knowledge to you in detail.

Health care knowledge for the elderly

***1*** Eat reasonably. Eat small, frequent meals and eat nutritionally balanced, low-fat foods.

***2***Drink appropriately. Drink more water, drink less alcohol

***3*** Quit smoking. It’s never too late to quit smoking. Smoking increases your risk of heart disease or cancer and shortens your life.

***4*** Take a walk. Walking is a great way to stay alert and healthy. Fresh air is better than tonic.

***5*** Seek more fun and stay in touch with family, friends and neighbors. Remember to live until you are old, learn until you are old, and teach until you are old.

***6*** Be positive and confident. Being cheerful and optimistic makes it easy for people to get close to you.

***7*** Always be careful. Your life and the lives of others depend on your clear mind and clear vision.

***8***Sex life. There is no age limit for sex.

***9***Exercise is good for you. Less strenuous exercise is good for your health and also exposes you to other people. Swimming and acclimatization exercises are particularly recommended.

***10***Drugs. Don’t abuse antidepressants and medications. Only take medications recommended by your doctor.

Taboos of health care for the elderly

1. Avoid going out too early. Early in the morning in winter, when the outdoor temperature is the lowest, going out can easily cause colds and lead to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Elderly people should choose to go outdoors after 10 a.m. And when you go out, you should bring more clothes to make it easier to change clothes after sweating. After stopping activities, you should put on clothes immediately and wipe off the sweat to prevent catching a cold. For mild colds caused by wind and cold, boil 100-200 grams of ginger in a large pot of water and take a bath, which can cure the cold.

2. Avoid staying in the sun for too long. To get proper exposure to the sun, 1-2 hours is appropriate. Excessive sun exposure will damage the panel and destroy the natural barrier of the human body, allowing harmful chemicals and microorganisms in the atmosphere to invade the human body, causing infection and vision loss.

3. Avoid bathing for too long. The air in winter is dry and cold, and taking a bath every day will make your body drier and cause more dandruff. In fact, the elderly can take a bath once every other day in winter, or once every three or four days.

4. Avoid excessive activities. Appropriate physical exercise is an important means to strengthen the body, prevent diseases and fight aging. However, the elderly should not do strenuous exercise. They should choose appropriate sports programs, such as jogging, cycling, Tai Chi, etc. It is best to walk slowly among the woods in the countryside and breathe fresh air.

5. Avoid excessive heating. In the cold winter, the elderly are afraid of the cold and like to use hot water bottles to lie close to their bodies. This will cause erythema or burns on the panel. Therefore, as long as the room temperature reaches 18-25℃, it is enough. Try not to make a fire for warmth, especially indoors, to prevent accidents caused by lack of air circulation.

6. Avoid sleeping with your head covered. This will cause the oxygen content in the quilt to decrease and carbon dioxide to increase, affecting the human body's normal breathing, even causing suffocation, or inducing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Therefore, the correct way to sleep is: lie on the right side, lower the pillow, expose the head outside the quilt, and bend and stretch the legs. If you find that the quality of your sleep is not good at night and you cannot remember your dreams after waking up, it indicates that your kidneys are weak, which can be relieved by making soup with lily and pig's feet and consuming it regularly.

7. Avoid leaving “minor illnesses” untreated. If the elderly encounter "minor illnesses" such as colds, coughs, headaches, and palpitation, and it is winter, they must be treated in time to prevent them from happening before they happen. Because winter is the season when cardiovascular diseases are most common, major illnesses are often caused by minor illnesses.