What should the elderly pay attention to when traveling?

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 elderly have poor physical fitness, so we must make plans before going out. So what should the elderly pay attention to when traveling? Old people should be cautious when traveling to prevent accidents. Traveling by car, boat and mountain climbing should go hand in hand and take care of each other. At the same time, we should carefully arrange the itinerary to minimize fatigue. The elderly with allergic constitution should try to avoid flowers, or take chlorpheniramine, Anqimin and other drugs orally in advance to prevent allergies. Anti-carsickness People who often get carsick can take drugs such as Halo Haining, Phenergan or Anning with them and take them half an hour before going out. You can also use your own acupuncture at Neiguan (two inches in the middle of the palm and wrist) and Zusanli (three inches outside the knee, just below the knee eye), or massage yourself, or do qigong to guard these two points. When the elderly go out, it is best to bring a crutch to prevent falling. Once you fall, don't get up in a hurry, you should find out the reason first and then deal with it. If you fall on the uneven ground, it may be related to the road surface. 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. So 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 cold and unclean things. Take some berberine tablets or compound sulfamethoxazole tablets with you in case of emergency. In order to prevent colds, the weather is changeable in autumn. Take enough clothes and rain gear when you go out. Don't sit on the wet ground or 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 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 with 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. It has been suggested that it is the best time for the elderly to travel when bloom is warm in spring and osmanthus is fragrant. Choose the right scenic spots, China has a vast territory and beautiful mountains and rivers. There are many famous mountains and rivers in China, but for the elderly, it is advisable to travel less, play more with water and visit more classical gardens, because climbing mountains and taking risks are inevitable. After all, the legs and feet of the elderly are not as good as those of the young. If you visit classical gardens and appreciate lakes and waters, there will be no effort to climb. If you can visit the West Lake in Zhejiang, Taihu Lake in Wuxi and Suzhou classical gardens, 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. The elderly can join the elderly tour group, or travel together or with their families, but it is best not to travel alone by one or two elderly people. Accidents like this are not conducive to mutual rescue and are not safe. Before you leave, you should have a physical examination. The elderly should have a physical examination before going out, and they can only go with the consent of the doctor. 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 itinerary. As far as you can. Not far, but near. Don't force it. After departure, you should introduce your illness to the accompanying health care doctor in time, and someone should accompany you when traveling alone or in groups. Some old people who travel together are young and in good spirits. However, physical strength gradually declines with age, which is also a natural law. How can a grandfather in his sixties and seventies compare with a young man in his twenties and thirties? Ideally, the old man should go with a young man. So we can take care of each other. In addition, you need to carry crutches with you to help you and ensure safe walking. Take some necessary medicine. These drugs include two types. First, take some drugs to prevent and treat chronic diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes and coronary heart disease. Although they have no symptoms when traveling, they should be prepared and take some necessary drugs. 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, and it is easy to cause constipation and diarrhea due to acclimatization. In addition, you should also bring some ointment, alcohol, cotton wool, mercuric chloride and other items. Take clothes properly in spring and autumn. The weather changes greatly and the temperature difference is large, especially in spring. As the saying goes, "Spring is like a child's insurance. Change it three times a day. " There is a great difference in temperature between morning and evening. So be sure to bring more light and warm clothes to facilitate shouting and replacement. It's best to wear enough soft and breathable shoes. With enough shoes, you can ensure a pleasant journey. Generally speaking, a week's travel time is appropriate. This is because the travel time is too long, the physical exertion is too great, and it is not good for the health, which requires "enough is enough". Pay attention to proper rest. Older people can consume faster. Therefore, during the journey, you must not force yourself to do sports beyond your physical strength, but be diligent in rest to ensure the quality of rest. Especially at night, it is best not to stay up late, and to ensure at least eight hours of high-quality sleep every day 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 in food stalls casually, and pay attention to the diet should not be too much or too little, just feel a little full, try to eat less indigestible food and eat more fresh fruits and vegetables. Don't spoil your stomach by eating some special snacks. Now, in order to prevent being deceived, many fraudsters use the characteristics of some elderly people who are greedy and cheap and simple-minded, to lure them into being deceived. Old people should pay attention. In this society, there are too few things falling 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 what others give or get easily. It is probably a trap set by a liar. Pay attention to replenish water during the journey. Water is an indispensable substance for human body, especially for the elderly. This can help the body promote metabolism and slow down aging. Therefore, you must bring enough drinking water when traveling, and replenish water in time when you are thirsty. Especially in summer, the evaporation of human water is accelerated. At this time, we must pay attention to the supplement of water. In addition, we can add a little salt to the water to supplement the salt taken away by sweat. When traveling or participating in outdoor activities, we should pay attention to protecting joints and reducing joint wear. In case of accidents such as fractures, you should learn to save yourself. 1, leg cramps When traveling, gastrocnemius muscle fatigue and leg cramps are also common due to walking more than usual (especially on foot). There are many methods to treat calf cramps, which are also very simple and easy to do. They all achieve the purpose of relieving pain by relaxing local muscles. Rotation method: get up and sit up, straighten the cramped leg, hold the forefoot with your hand, and rotate your ankle outward. As long as the movements are consistent and powerful, the pain can generally be stopped immediately. Leg-pulling method: Take a sitting position, press the cramped calf muscle with one hand, pull the foot backwards with the other hand to bend the foot backwards, and then move the foot up and down to relieve the cramp. If the above methods can't completely relieve the symptoms, you can use hot towels and hot water bottles instead of applying them to your legs and abdomen. Hot compress can effectively promote muscle blood circulation and relieve spasm. If you have cramps while swimming, you can straighten your thighs as much as possible, push your heels forward, and pull your toes in the direction of your body with your hands, and repeat until the symptoms disappear. 2, sprain sprain often occurs in the ankle, waist, neck, wrist. Under normal circumstances, let the patient calm down, fix the injured part, and cover the affected area with a cold wet cloth. People with sprained neck and waist should not move the affected part when handling. Sprains are 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 at once. In addition, if it is an ankle sprain, in addition to immediate cold compress, it should be fixed with a wide cloth strip or a cloth bag; Don't take off your shoes if you want to keep walking. 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 trauma and open fracture with trauma. The most common symptoms of fracture are severe pain and swelling, inability to touch and normal movement of limbs. Sometimes, due to severe pain or excessive bleeding, it can also cause shock. When a fracture occurs, immediately let the patient lie flat and call the emergency number to take the patient to the hospital. For open fractures, first stop bleeding. If there is less bleeding, press the wound with a clean cloth. If there is a lot of bleeding due to limb fracture, be sure to tie it tightly on the upper arm or thigh, loosen the belt every 20 minutes and relax for 2 minutes until the bleeding stops. If the fracture is outside the limbs, press the upper part of the blood vessel (near the heart) with your palm to block the blood source until the blood stops. When the spine is fractured, it is necessary to prevent paralysis caused by careless injury to the spinal cord. When lifting the wounded, don't move the fracture at all. Three people lift the waist, abdomen and lower limbs of the wounded at the same time, at the same level and in step, and put the wounded on a stretcher. If it is a neck fracture, you need a person 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 and nerves. Dislocation of fracture end must be prevented, and forced reduction is not allowed. In order to avoid infection, clean handkerchiefs and towels can be used to cover the fracture end exposed outside the wound, and then healthy limbs or wooden sticks or boards can be tied to the injured limbs. When elderly patients with chronic diseases travel, besides preventing new diseases, they should also 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.