Although the weather is hot in summer, many people still get colds. Staying in an air-conditioned room for a long time, and being hot and cold may cause colds. Colds are very uncomfortable in summer. You should always pay attention to preventing colds, but how can you prevent colds in summer? What are some ways to prevent colds in summer? Let me introduce it to you below.

1. How to prevent colds in summer

1. Use air conditioning scientifically

Due to the large temperature difference between indoors and outdoors and poor indoor ventilation, it is often easy to catch a cold and cause fever. , don’t be greedy for temporary comfort and neglect your own health. The hotter the weather, the more you should strengthen heat-resistant exercises and reduce the time in air-conditioned rooms. Citizens who often work in air-conditioned environments should try not to use air conditioners when they return home.

2. Eat a reasonable diet

The diet should be light and avoid greasy, spicy and cold food; eat more fresh fruits and vegetables to keep the stool clear; often cook mung bean porridge, lotus seed lily porridge, lotus root and lotus seeds at home. Leaf porridge and red date porridge can prevent heatstroke and cool down; drink more water and eat too much high-salt food, which can lead to reduced saliva secretion; eating too much high-sugar food can consume water and vitamins in the body, often causing dry mouth and tongue , making the immune function low; smoking and drinking can lead to a decrease in the defense function of the respiratory tract, making them susceptible to respiratory diseases. Therefore, you should have a reasonable diet, eat less fried and salty foods, quit smoking and limit alcohol consumption.

As a food to prevent colds, animal liver should be the first choice. Because the liver contains a variety of vitamins, especially a large amount of vitamin A and a large amount of vitamin B12, these vitamins can enhance the body's resistance.

3. Balance work with rest

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that staying up late can easily damage the mind and energy, so it is important to ensure adequate sleep on summer nights. You should also exercise appropriately. If you stay at home all day with the TV, or are too busy, work continuously for a long time, are overtired, etc., it will cause the immune function of the adult body to decrease, leading to the occurrence of colds.

4. Wash your hands frequently

Medical research shows that you are most likely to contract viruses through touching your hands, because only 8 out of the droplets sprayed by cold patients contain cold viruses. of. The cold virus can survive on a handkerchief for 1 hour and on the hands for 10 hours. The patient's hands are infected with the virus and then bring the virus to the places they touch - handkerchiefs, towels, door handles, telephones, tables and chairs, etc. , healthy people will catch a cold if they come into contact with these places and then their eyes and noses. Therefore, very effective ways to prevent colds are to shake hands with different cold patients, wash hands frequently, change handkerchiefs frequently, and get rid of the habit of touching nose and eyes with hands.

5. Maintain a good attitude

People who often worry will cause low immune function, weakening the body's ability to kill and phagocytosis of pathogenic microorganisms, giving the all-pervasive respiratory viruses an opportunity to "take advantage of" machine". According to reports, people who often worry are 3-5 times more likely to be infected with respiratory viruses than those in the control group. People with high psychological stress and introverted personalities have significantly weakened resistance to cold viruses.

So being open-minded and optimistic are effective ways to prevent colds.

2. What to eat to prevent colds

Lemon: Eating lemon often can clear away heat and reduce phlegm. Lemon can also relieve phlegm. The phlegm effect of lemon peel is stronger than that of citrus. The weather in summer is hot and humid. If you don't pay attention to your diet, the internal dampness of the human body and the external dampness of the natural climate will react with each other. The accumulation of dampness and turbidity will lead to phlegm over time. Therefore, when there is a lot of phlegm in summer and the throat is uncomfortable, adding lemon juice to warm water and a small amount of salt can help cough up the thick phlegm accumulated in the throat smoothly.

Orange: Oranges can be eaten directly or squeezed into orange juice. Orange juice is rich in vitamin C, which can effectively prevent colds and other upper respiratory tract diseases. The function of vitamin C is to enhance human immunity and reduce the duration and frequency of viral upper respiratory tract infections such as colds and colds.

Pear: Pear is sweet in nature and flavor, slightly sour and cool, enters the lung and stomach meridian, can produce fluid and moisturize dryness, clear away heat and resolve phlegm; Fritillaria fritillary moistens the lungs, relieves cough and resolves phlegm; Baibu warms the lungs and relieves cough; tangerine peel regulates qi. Neutralizes dampness and resolves phlegm. When you have a cold, you can try Sichuan clams and steamed pears.

How to make steamed pears with Sichuan Fritillaria scallops: wash and remove the core of the pears, then wash 3 grams of Sichuan Fritillaria scallops, 6 grams of bulbils and 6 grams of tangerine peel, put them into the heart of the pear, and steam them in a pot. , consume one daily. Steamed pears relieve cough and reduce phlegm. It has a good effect on bronchitis cough and phlegm that is difficult to cough up.