Important information for those who feel the changes in weather.
Cold – hot, Sunny – overcast, dry – rains, storms, hurricane. These weather extremes mean for many serious health problems and the loss of function due to weakness, headaches and apathy.
Why do we react to the weather, and how to live actively, regardless of what is happening outside the window, was told by the doctors.
Just need to stipulate that the diagnosis of “weather-sensitive” does not exist. But this does not prevent people to blame for all the changes of his fortune to the weather. From this position it is necessary to fundamentally refuse to look at the situation differently, said the doctor-the therapist Irina Yartseva.
Every human organism is a complex set of systems and organs that perform many functions. One of the functions of the cardiovascular system — adaptation to external (weather, stress, etc.) and internal (for example, fluctuations in the level of any hormones) change.
Adaptation is provided by the characteristics of the vessels: due to the elasticity of their walls can grow or shrink in response to external or internal changes. Because the blood flow to the tissues and organs are delivered the oxygen, under different conditions of contraction and expansion of blood vessels regulates such delivery.
Thus, the human body possesses a powerful tool of adaptation to different weather conditions: cardiovascular system allows climbers to withstand the atmospheric pressure of 236 mm Hg.St. on the summit of Everest, and a French diver Pascal bernabé set a record dive with scuba gear and plunged to a depth of 330 m.
Unfortunately, the adaptive capacity of the cardiovascular system an easy way to reduce it is promoted by chronic stress and lifestyle. And that’s when the problems begin with health even due to minor fluctuations in the weather. Under strong pressure drop and temperature of the person may be confined to bed all day.
Headache before rain can be linked to both increase and decrease in blood pressure, said a cardiologist, Professor at the Institute of cardiology named after academician Strazhesko Leonid Voronkov.
Commenting on the issue of influence of sudden changes in air temperature and atmospheric pressure on human health, the doctor noted that the dependence on atmospheric phenomena is an individual and all it is different.
According to the doctor, severe headaches before the rain – a reaction from the blood vessels. Causes of headaches when weather changes can be sudden changes in atmospheric pressure, which react to blood vessels of head expansion or contraction.
“Some people have a headache before the rain associated with increased blood pressure, and some are associated with a reduction in pressure. Therefore, there can be no universal recommendations,” – said Voronkov.
The cardiologist stated that we need to understand that any changes in the weather, transformation of the atmospheric pressure, sunshine, precipitation, affect human well-being.
“But in healthy people the weather changes in no way affect” – he concluded.
However, the vessels are perfectly amenable to training. Here are some simple and even obvious recommendations that will help keep them in good shape.
Get enough sleep
Sleep is the time when the vessels are fully relaxed. If you don’t have a stable sleep and wakefulness, or you sleep less than 7 hours per night, your vessels do not have time to “rest”. Due to the lack of relaxation they almost always are in Sienna condition and lose their elasticity.
Smoke less, but better don’t smoke at all and avoid Smoking areas
Active and passive Smoking leads to a prolonged spasm of blood vessels that damage of the endothelium (layer of cells lining the inner wall of blood vessels), increase of bad cholesterol and increase blood viscosity. All this increased load on vessels. As a result, they are constantly in a state of hard work.
Atherosclerosis makes the blood vessels brittle and inelastic, with the result that they can no longer adapt to the external and internal environment.
Fight stress
Although we’ve learned that stress — the constant companion of urban life, with them will not be tolerated. In this condition blood comes stress hormones. The objective of these hormones is to raise blood sugar levels and blood pressure to the brain and muscles got more energy out of a dangerous situation. And to the brain and muscles receive nutrients as fast as possible, the vessels under the action of stress hormones constrict.
So if you often tense, your blood vessels are constantly constricted and do not get adequate relaxation, which are unable to respond flexibly to external or internal changes.
By training yourself, train vessels
Cardio is needed by all. They allow the limits of physiological norm to increase blood pressure and pulse: this trains the blood vessels and helps them to cope with weather extremes.
Cardio is not only running, which is not recommended for everyone. Perfect walking, swimming, playing on the ellipsoid and the bike.
To avoid overloading the cardiovascular system during cardio and not to harm yourself, it is recommended to carry out functional diagnostics and find out your individual upper limits of the pulse values.
Drink water
Sufficient water ensures the body needs blood volume. If the body is dehydrated, the blood vessels in different areas of the body must continually shrink, so they did blood. It’s seriously degrade the cardiovascular system in General and prevents her to fulfill adaptive functions.
Recall that if a person has no violations of the withdrawal of fluids from the body, the recommended intake is 30-40 ml of water per 1 kg of body weight.
Don’t eat “bad”
The abundance of fatty animal products in the diet can lead to higher bad cholesterol and development of atherosclerosis. Also not recommended fast carbs: they raise blood sugar levels, which in turn causes damage to the blood vessels. In summer it is better to give preference to lean meat, poultry, vegetables, legumes, fruits and berries.
Regularly take a contrast shower
Contrast shower — excellent training vessels and maintain their elasticity. Develop the habit of taking a shower every day and gradually reduce the temperature of the water.
As you can see, the recommendations are very simple and not new. The main advice is to understand that meteopathy is in most cases merely the result of our not very healthy lifestyle. People who support the vessels in good shape, the same feel good in any weather.
And does the weather make you nervous?
There is a specific cluster of psychiatric disorders with seasonal exacerbations, for example, bipolar affective disorder (BAR). Usually exacerbations occur in the winter and summer or spring and autumn.
There is also a link between organic lesions of the Central nervous system and the weather: people who have suffered head injuries or neuroinfections, react to change of weather headaches and General malaise.
And of course there is the seasonal depression. They are formed from individuals who are prone to emotional reactions, impressionable and sensitive to the effects of climate. Such people are not so warm summer, which they expect can cause a reactive depression.
“A long stay in the country or areas with rainy, grey, cool climate, short daylight days it can be a cause of chronic depression” – the doctor-psychiatrist Alexander Barkhatov.
At the same time, the Ministry of health called the most sensitive to changes in the weather category of people. The Department explained that “the contrast change of weather regime” increases the importance of prevention of weather-sensitive diseases and their complications.
Experts of the Ministry of health confirmed the influence of “meteorological” on the human body and the fact that people often turn to physicians with exacerbations of the disease during unfavorable weather conditions.
Studies controlled by the Ministry of health at the Center for strategic planning and management of biomedical health risks showed that the most weather-sensitive people with emotional disorders, including the influence of weather exposed 82-84%.
Increased meteosensitivity is also noted among those suffering from cardiovascular diseases (80-82%), diseases of the musculoskeletal system (72-74%) and broncho-pulmonary diseases (60-64%).
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