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How do old people keep warm and prevent frostbite?

How do old people keep warm and prevent frostbite? How do the elderly keep warm in winter? Pay attention to keep warm and diet in autumn and winter to avoid inducing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and respiratory diseases. Old friends can eat more fish, shrimp, meat, eggs, milk, tofu and other foods.

For daily breakfast, use warm food, such as porridge with jujube and dried ginger, walnut kernel, sweet almond, grape, etc. you can also eat soybean milk, spicy soup, mutton soup, vinegar fried cabbage, sugar garlic, etc. Adding sour foods such as hawthorn, Schisandra chinensis and persimmon vinegar in the diet can astringe Yang Qi. If there is no wind and cold weather or there is no cold in the body, try to use less or no sweating foods, such as green onions, ginger, pepper, mustard, etc.

Experts remind: the elderly who are afraid of cold should drink less tea in winter and eat more iron rich foods, such as black fungus, kelp, laver

Bean products and pig liver, lean meat, eggs, etc. Some old people believe that drinking can prevent freezing. In fact, they feel hot after drinking, because alcohol can cause vasodilation. However, in the end, due to the accelerated blood circulation, a large amount of heat in the human body will be lost through the skin, causing hypothermia.

The elderly can insist on foot bath

Experts suggest that the elderly can insist on foot bath antifreeze.

The method is as follows: before going to bed every night, the water temperature is about 40 ~ 50 ℃, which is suitable for comfort. After soaking the feet for 5 minutes, massage the Yongquan points of both feet in parallel and alternately with the index finger, middle finger and ring finger of both hands for 60 times, and then massage the toe space of both feet with both hands' thumbs in warm water for 20 times.