Pay attention to keep warm: when cold wave or strong cold air strikes, the incidence of hypertension and stroke in the elderly increases significantly, and patients with cardiovascular diseases are also prone to angina pectoris, myocardial infarction and heart failure. Cold is also an important cause of colds, bronchitis, coronary heart disease, emphysema and asthma. Therefore, the elderly must always pay attention to cold and warmth, and add clothes and pants in time with the change of weather to avoid catching cold and prevent colds.
Two-tone diet: in winter, the daily diet of middle-aged and elderly people should be based on warming, eating some foods with high calorie and high protein appropriately, reasonably arranging three meals a day, and avoiding or eating less cold food, irritating food and some greasy and indigestible foods.
Three-service ventilation: In winter, people close doors and windows to keep out the cold, and the use of heating facilities makes indoor air dry and dirty, which is easy to cause respiratory diseases. Therefore, while controlling the indoor temperature, we should pay attention to maintaining indoor cleanliness, air circulation and humidity adjustment.
More than four exercises: In winter, the elderly should do outdoor activities as much as possible and exercise every day, which is of great benefit to strengthening physical fitness, preventing diseases and protecting health.
Five taboos on alcohol and tobacco: keep the door closed in winter, and don't scatter cigarettes outside. Smoking is very harmful to human body. If the smoke accumulates for a long time, it will have a great impact on the human body; Due to the large temperature difference between indoor and outdoor in winter, physical weakness after drinking is easy to make the evil of external cold take the opportunity to enter, and cold and heat are mixed, which can easily cause damage to the heart, lungs and brain.
6. Prevention of infection: Winter is the frequent season of various respiratory infectious diseases, while the elderly have low immune function and poor disease resistance, and are prone to infectious diseases. Therefore, the elderly should pay attention to the prevention of infectious diseases, and it is best to go to shops, entertainment places and other places with large population movements and dense personnel, and pay more attention to prevention when there are patients with infectious diseases at home.