Creases in the earlobe may be a sign of heart disease. How to look at health from facial features? Core tip: a study in the British Journal of heart suggests that earlobe wrinkles may be a cardiovascular problem.
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Blepharoptosis: be alert to Bell's palsy, stroke and lung cancer. Bell's palsy can cause paralysis on one side of the face, make it difficult to close eyes, and cause mouth drooping. Ptosis is also a symptom of stroke, accompanied by unclear speech and arm weakness. "More rarely, it may be a sign of lung cancer," said Dr. Helen & middot; Stokes & middot; Lampard, a general practitioner at the Royal College of England. It can be accompanied by arm and shoulder pain, hand weakness and tingling.
Eyes full of blood: be alert to hay fever, iritis, hypertension. After excluding the bloodshot caused by staying up late, we should consider: redness and itching are often the symptoms of hay fever; subconjunctival hemorrhage caused by iritis or trauma can make the whole eye red; more rare is the fragile blood vessel rupture caused by hypertension.
Eyelid is pale: vigilance anaemia. The appearance of unhealthy pallor in the lower eyelid, accompanied by dizziness and irritability, may mean that you have iron deficiency anemia. You need to eat more red meat, beans, nuts and dark green leafy vegetables in your daily life.
Ear lobe crease is a sign of heart disease
Earlobe crease: beware of heart disease. A study in the British Journal of heart suggests that earlobe wrinkles may be a cause of cardiovascular problems.
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Crack at the corner of the mouth: be alert to anemia and diabetes. Iron deficiency anemia can cause cracks in the corners of the mouth, but with the disappearance of anemia, it will slowly recover. Another possible cause is diabetes. The main symptoms include feeling thirsty and extremely tired.
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Reddening: beware of heart disease and menopause. Dr Ian of the British Cardiovascular Society said that mitral stenosis in heart disease may lead to a decrease in oxygen content in the whole body and blood, which is manifested in abnormal red on the face. Patchy flush on the face and neck is a common sign of menopause.
Edema: be alert to hypothyroidism and mumps. When thyroid hormone secretion is insufficient, metabolism will slow down, weight gain, and then face swelling. Swelling caused by mumps is accompanied by pain, loss of appetite and joint pain.
Pale yellow skin color: be alert to bronchitis, asthma, jaundice. Respiratory diseases such as bronchitis and emphysema can lead to yellowish and gray skin. The child's skin appears waxy yellow, which may also be caused by jaundice. In addition, we should be alert to liver disease.
Itching: be alert to eczema and drug allergy. Dry, itchy, and painful skin is a symptom of eczema, which usually occurs where the skin is wrinkled, such as around the eyes and ears. Pregnancy can cause itchy skin, especially in the later stages. Some drugs, such as antibiotics, can also cause itching.
Pay more attention to find the symptoms of disease in parents
Appearance: red face, high blood pressure
Appearance change is the most direct way to observe parents' health. The following situations deserve special attention.
All of a sudden, I'm old and thin. Many diseases can lead to the elderly friends emaciation, the common causes are malignant tumor, diabetes, hyperthyroidism, tuberculosis and so on. Cancer cell malignant reproduction, will consume a lot of nutrients in the body, leading to weight loss; and weight loss is one of the typical symptoms of diabetes. If the elderly lose 5-10 Jin in a month, they should go to the hospital for examination.
His face was red. This may be the manifestation of hypertension and cerebrovascular disease. Most patients with hypertension, endocrine system changes, will lead to sympathetic excitement, prone to blush. In addition, hyperthyroidism and tuberculosis can also lead to "red light". If you see your parents' red face without any reason, you should go to the general medical examination.
Hair suddenly turns white or black. White hair suddenly increased, to guard against the elderly insomnia, depression tendency. Sudden blackening of white hair, tenderness of skin and sexual hyperactivity may be the early signs of pituitary tumor, adrenal cell carcinoma and other diseases.
Environment: too messy at home may lead to depression
The room was in a mess and in poor hygiene. In the past, my parents may always nag that you are too lazy and help you clean up your home. I didn't expect that now their room is in a mess, the floor, wardrobe are covered with dust, and the dishes and chopsticks are greasy and not cleaned. If it is found that the health habits of parents have changed for decades, it is necessary to consider whether their energy is reduced and their heart is weak due to diseases. In addition, depression, Alzheimer's disease and other mental diseases can also cause them not to want to clean up.
There is always a bad smell in the house, but the parents are not aware of it. Chicago Rush University Medical Center found that if the elderly are difficult to distinguish the familiar smell, the risk of death will increase. Other studies have found that the decline of olfactory function in the elderly may be a precursor of Alzheimer's disease. The olfactory failure of the elderly may also be caused by the compression of brain tumor or nasal cavity and paranasal sinus tumor. Parents can't smell, which increases their risk of eating rotten food. Once these signs are found, they should be taken to the ENT department for examination as soon as possible.
Behavior: if you speak loud, you have to check your hearing
I love rubbing my eyes. It may be the normal manifestation of presbyopia, but it may also be the visual impairment caused by cataract, myopic macular degeneration, wet senile macular disease, diabetic fundus disease, etc. If it is found that the old people do not know when they love rubbing their eyes, and their eyesight drops obviously, they should go to the ophthalmic examination. Now there are more and more new drugs and operations, which can ensure the therapeutic effect.
Strange walking posture, easy to fall. This may be caused by stroke caused by foot weakness, arthritis caused by lameness, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, postural hypotension caused by gait instability, Parkinson's patients with broken steps, etc. A simple 'standing and walking test' can be used to judge whether parents' gait is normal: first let parents sit on the chair, then stand up without supporting anything, walk forward for 3 meters, turn around, and then walk back to the chair to sit down. If it can be completed in 20 seconds, it means that the body is OK. If it takes more than 40 seconds, you should go to the hospital for further evaluation.
The appetite and taste changed greatly. It's normal to eat too much or too little occasionally, but if the appetite suddenly increases over a period of time, it may be a sign of diabetes, hyperthyroidism, depression and anxiety. And always do not want to eat, and accompanied by hot flashes, sweating or other discomfort, it may be a sign of gastrointestinal cancer or other diseases. If they find that their parents' taste has changed a lot recently, but they are not aware of it, it is possible that cerebrovascular disease causes dysfunction, leading to their taste failure.
The voice becomes loud or hard to hear. This is very easy to be ignored. Although poor hearing does not affect life expectancy, it will seriously affect the quality of life of parents. The reason why the old man's voice becomes louder may be that he is hard at listening. It is necessary to take parents to otorhinolaryngology department for examination and evaluation whether it is earwax, back of ear or hard of hearing, or hearing impairment caused by other sensory neuropathy.
Personality: hate noise, to prevent dementia
Not talkative and forgetful. His parents, who used to be lively and like children to talk and laugh around him, suddenly become quiet, tired of noise and don't like to talk, or he doesn't remember what happened yesterday, but he didn't forget the details of the classmate party 20 years ago; When cooking, monosodium glutamate is used as salt, which is likely to be the manifestation of Alzheimer's disease.
Bad temper. Parents suddenly look at what is not pleasing to the eye? Always angry at you, this may not be his original intention, but the disease. It may be that the physical discomfort caused by the disease causes an 'emotional cold', or it may be that Alzheimer's disease, depression, anxiety and so on are at work.