To maintain good health during the rainy season, you need to pay attention to 5 key points. Keep the first 3 points in mind to keep you away from humidity, stuffiness and mildew.

At this time, healthy and reasonable health knowledge is needed to solve the problem. Let’s take a look at the guide to health care during the rainy season.

1. Appropriate exercise makes you feel refreshed

People will feel a little depressed during the rainy weather. This is because the pressure in the rainy weather is low and the oxygen content of the blood in the human body is relatively low. If it is low, the human body will not be supplied with enough oxygen, so it will cause depression and dizziness.

This feeling is especially obvious for people with high blood pressure, heart disease or cerebral infarction.

Therefore, during the rainy season, we should pay attention to appropriate exercise to improve the body's oxygen tolerance. You will feel refreshed and energetic after exercise.

Although it rains frequently and it is inconvenient to exercise outdoors, indoor exercise is more than enough. As long as you pay attention and develop a habit, there are opportunities for exercise everywhere. Do dozens of push-ups seriously at home; get up and move around after working in the office for a while.

When you go to work in the morning, get off the car a few stops early and walk to the office; don’t take the elevator, take the stairs; ride less, drive less, and walk more.

2. Use more ventilation to keep it dry

Someone asked, how can we get rid of the "mold" smell when there is a lot of humidity during the rainy season?

Yes.

You do it every day, you just don’t know it.

According to traditional Chinese medicine: wind defeats dampness. This is the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine in treating diseases.

It is also applicable to life. Doors and windows need to be opened for a certain amount of time every day. In windy conditions, doors and windows should be opened appropriately to maintain indoor ventilation.

Common people all know that ventilation can prevent items from becoming moldy and dehumidify and reduce moisture. Clothes should be washed and changed frequently. The humidity during the rainy season is high and fungi are active and can easily spread to various parts of the body. You should take a shower and change clothes after exercising to keep your body dry. Wear less tight pants and try to wear cotton underwear. After wading in water, getting exposed to rain, or sweating, you should dry your body promptly and change out of sweaty clothes.

The air conditioner can be used for short-term dehumidification. The moisture-absorbing box can be used for local dehumidification, such as in wall cabinets, wardrobes, and shoe cabinets. Put the home appliance into standby mode at the right time to dissipate the moisture inside the machine.

3. Appropriate amount of moxibustion protects the body

Needless to say the benefits of moxibustion. The main point here is that some people think that the air becomes humid when it rains, and the pores open during moxibustion. Moisture will enter the skin along with the heat, which not only has no effect, but also invites dampness evil.

That’s it. Remember the following four points:

Dry your skin when doing moxibustion.

Do not sit in the wind.

The temperature near the moxa stick is very high, and there is no moisture around it.

Put on clothes in time after moxibustion and avoid going out.

In this way, the pathogenic factors in the body can be removed, and it can also play a role in preventing diseases.

Acupoints: Zusanli, Guanyuan, Fenglong, Zhongwan, Tianshu, etc.

4. Avoid cold drinks and cold baths

During the rainy season, the air humidity is very high.

Dampness is a yin evil. It is easy to damage the human body's yang energy.

Dampness evil is sticky and greasy, staying in the organs and meridians, often blocking the Qi movement, making it unable to rise and fall. Symptoms such as chest and epigastrium tightness, short and astringent urine, and unpleasant loose stools may occur.

The spleen is an internal organ of damp soil, and dampness evil is most likely to invade the spleen.

There are two major factors causing spleen and stomach diseases in modern people:

Internal dampness - gluttony in eating raw and cold fruits, overeating, and craving for fat. Sweet, thick and greasy, turns into phlegm and turbidity, etc.

Exogenous dampness--if you stay in an air-conditioned room for a long time, cold dampness can invade the human body and damage the spleen.

Therefore, on rainy days, try to eat as little cold drinks as possible and do not take baths with cold water.

In this regard, Chinese medicine experts pointed out that people should eat more products that strengthen the spleen and remove dampness, such as ginger, yam, adzuki beans, coix seed, lentils, etc.

You can also eat more of these foods:

Foods that dilute water and remove dampness: soybeans, mung beans, daylily, winter melon, etc.;

Foods that clear away heat and dispel summer heat: watermelon, loofah, cucumber, celery, amaranth, etc.;

Foods that strengthen the spleen and relieve dampness: broad beans, red beans, herring, crucian carp, silver carp, flat fish, etc.

Children, in particular, should eat less greasy and sweet foods, especially cold drinks and foods freshly taken out of the refrigerator.

For those who like to drink cold beer, they should pay attention to moderation and restraint. The best summer drinks are boiled water and light tea.

5. Prevent food from becoming moldy

During the Meiyu period, the air is hot and humid. Food is prone to mold and can cause acute or chronic poisoning after consumption.

Common toxins produced by food after mold becomes moldy include aflatoxins, penicillin toxins and fusarium toxins. Ordinary cleaning, cooking and other methods cannot remove mycotoxins, and food poisoning can occur even if the food is cooked thoroughly.

Even if the moldy food is fully heated, it cannot be eaten because aflatoxin is very tenacious, highly toxic and carcinogenic, and heat-resistant. Its lysis temperature is 280°C and its solubility in water is low. It has a destructive effect on human and animal liver tissue and can also lead to liver cancer. It is one of the world-recognized causes of liver cancer.

Therefore, as long as it is spoiled food or food with flavor, you must not eat it and don’t risk your body.

How to prevent mildew in plum rainy weather?

Store dry. Dried mushrooms, fungus, dried bamboo shoots and other dry goods must be stored in a sealed container to prevent them from getting damp. If possible, a desiccant should be placed in the container.

Rice, noodles and other grain products should be stored in a ventilated and dry place, which can greatly reduce the amount of mold toxin production.

Foods that are perishable such as cakes, milk, meat, eggs, etc. must be refrigerated in time. At low temperatures, mold reproduction slows down. Meat can be stored for 20 days under refrigeration conditions of 0℃-4℃.

Try to eat small amounts and frequently, and eat more fresh, light and easy-to-digest foods. It is recommended to throw away leftovers and avoid eating spoiled rice and spoiled vegetables. Once you accidentally eat moldy food and cause poisoning, you should be sent to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible, and samples should be retained as much as possible for professional reference during treatment.

Finally, I would like to remind everyone not to use electronic products during thunderstorms

If you encounter thunder and lightning outdoors, you should immediately seek shelter, such as a lightning rod. , steel-framed concrete building. At the same time, do not use mobile phones and other electronic products, especially do not send text messages.

Lightning protection measures should also be taken indoors, avoid contact with water, stay away from doors and windows, do not use the phone, and do not listen to music with headphones. To protect your appliances, it's best to unplug them.

We should also pay attention to the balance between work and rest. Excessive fatigue can easily lead to the entry of dampness.

Taking a proper lunch break, even taking a short nap at your desk, can not only make up for lack of sleep at night, but also greatly improve work efficiency in the afternoon.

Remember not to stay up late at night, go to bed around 11 o'clock, and no later than 12 o'clock, and ensure 7 to 8 hours of sleep, and do not disrupt your work and rest routine.

During the rainy season, it is very important to maintain good human health. The above health maintenance points during the rainy season hope to help you spend the rainy season healthily.