The benefits of cold water washing on rhinitis
Washing your face with cold water in the morning helps your body adapt to the cold and improve your body's resistance. Washing your face with cold water can make the nasal blood vessels contract, reduce the secretion of glands, relieve the symptoms of nasal congestion, and help to exercise the response ability of nasal mucosa blood vessels to cold air. Furthermore, it can prevent people from catching repeated colds and enhance the disease resistance of nasal mucosa.
Bacteria and viruses are the pathogens that cause colds. These pathogens are usually hidden in our nasal cavity or throat and are invisible to the naked eye. Because of the defensive function of nasal mucosa and throat mucosa, they will not make people sick. But when the body's resistance drops, the function of nasal mucosa drops, and bacteria and viruses invade.
Especially in the cold season, the nasal mucosa vasoconstriction, tissue ischemia, and decreased nasal mucosal resistance create favorable invasion conditions for bacteria and viruses, so a cold occurs, which can further develop into chronic rhinitis or aggravate the original symptoms of chronic rhinitis.
Therefore, it is very important to prevent colds and enhance the resistance of nasal mucosa. If you often wash your face with cold water, the blood vessels in the face and nasal cavity can continuously improve their adaptability to external climate change, especially to cold, which will be beneficial to the prevention and treatment of chronic rhinitis.
Dietary taboos of patients with rhinitis
First, use pungent and dry products with caution to prevent yin injury. Spicy, fragrant and dry products are easy to cause excessive heat and dark consumption of body fluids. It is advisable to eat cinnamon, pepper, star anise, fennel, dog meat, mutton and fresh longan or litchi carefully.
Second, avoid taking a lot of cold products. In hot summer, it is easy to be greedy and drink cold. If you eat a lot of cold products, it will easily lead to yang deficiency, spleen and stomach weakness, and even damage yang, from diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting to chronic diseases of yang deficiency.
Third, be careful to eat a lot of fat and sweet products, because summer is easy to produce summer heat and dampness, and the evil of damp heat is easy to invade the human body. If you take a lot of fat and sweet products, it will easily lead to the invasion of human body by internal and external damp-heat evil.
Matters needing attention in patients with rhinitis
First, rhinitis is mostly caused by a cold. It is necessary to strengthen physical exercise and enhance resistance, such as running in the morning, swimming, taking a cold bath and washing your face with cold water. , can enhance physical fitness and improve the body's tolerance to cold.
Second, avoid excessive fatigue, lack of sleep, colds, smoking and drinking. Because these factors will reduce the body's resistance, leading to poor regulation of nasal mucosa, viruses take advantage of it to cause disease.
Third, wear masks when going out in autumn and winter or during the cold epidemic, avoid public meetings, go to public places as little as possible, do a good job of isolating patients, and fumigate polluted rooms with white vinegar for air disinfection.
Fourth, Chinese herbal medicine can be used for prevention. For example, after catching a cold, you can take ginger and brown sugar water as soon as possible to get rid of "cold evil" in time. During the cold epidemic, Chinese herbal medicines such as Schizonepeta tenuifolia and Saposhnikovia divaricata can be taken.
5. From 5: 00 a.m. to 10 a.m., it is the peak of pollen diffusion, so it is best not to stay outdoors for a long time.
Change and clean sheets and quilts in time to prevent allergic rhinitis induced by mites and their secretions.
Seven, keep the humidity of the indoor air, or use an air filter, and don't let your nose be too dry.