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Precautions for the elderly to travel

There are many holidays in the United States, and tourism has become a hot pursuit. In recent years, the travel of the elderly also accounts for a large proportion of the total number of tourists. The elderly should pay more attention to their own safety when they go out. Today, I'd like to list some precautions for the elderly to go out and play~

Top 10 points for the elderly to pay attention to

1. Prevent accidents

The action should be cautious and careful. It is necessary to arrange carefully for taking a car, boat and climbing. It is better to have someone to take care of and accompany. When traveling, the old man should try to avoid the steep path, and do not climb the forest and stone wall alone, so as to avoid accidents.

2. Pay attention to allergy

For the elderly with allergic history, try to avoid the flowers, or take some antiallergic drugs such as purmin orally in advance to prevent pollen allergy.

3. Pay attention to food hygiene

When you travel, you should increase your nutrition properly. For delicacies and snacks, we should mainly taste them. We should not overeat them at one time, let alone overeat them to avoid indigestion. We should also pay attention to food hygiene, not to eat unclean, raw and cold food, to prevent viral hepatitis, dysentery, typhoid and other intestinal infectious diseases from entering through the mouth.

4. Anti motion sickness

Carsickness, seasickness and airsickness are the most common causes of motion sickness. Fasting, overfull, fatigue and lack of sleep are all common causes, which should be avoided. Slight motion sickness can be eliminated after eyes closed rest or bed rest. The patients with obvious reaction can take halo Haining, vertigo stop or Dixi for half an hour before traveling. If motion sickness occurs and there is no drug treatment, Neiguan point and Zusanli point can be acupunctured or massaged.

5. Take regular medicine

The elderly patients with chronic diseases, in addition to daily medication, also need to prepare some special emergency medicine.

6. Pay attention to cold

The climate is changeable in spring, with wind and rain. When you go out, you should prepare enough clothes, carry rain gear, shoes and socks of appropriate size, and should not sit on the cold and wet stone ground to prevent rain. Do not stand against the wind when climbing downhill to avoid cold and disease. When you travel, if you get cold in the rain, you can use ginger, onion and brown sugar, fry with water and take hot clothes to dispel the cold. Wash feet with hot water before going to bed. When sleeping, the feet should be properly padded to promote blood circulation of feet and eliminate fatigue as soon as possible.

7. Don't forget to carry a cane

Walking stick is the third leg of the elderly. Therefore, the elderly should take walking stick when they travel.

8. Don't over fatigue

Beautiful spring scenery, beautiful mountains and rivers, often make people linger, constantly watch. In this way, excessive fatigue is very easy to occur. If fatigue, sweating, dizziness, dizziness, palpitation and other symptoms occur, we should rest as soon as possible, not reluctantly adhere to, the elderly with cardiovascular disease should strengthen self-monitoring.

9. Keep warm and cold

In spring, the climate is changeable and changeable. It is warm and cold at first. It is easy to cause respiratory infectious diseases such as influenza. Therefore, we should prepare enough clothes and supplies to prevent accidents.

10. Prevent recurrence of old diseases

During the spring outing in other places, allergic diseases and "acclimatization" are easy to occur, so we should pay attention to prevention. Those who need medication at ordinary times should not stop using it without authorization, otherwise, it may lead to relapse, aggravation or deterioration of the old disease.