Many people are confused about what to do, how to eat and how to recover. Today, we will talk about the most important and easy to ignore thing during the COVID period - sleeping. After all, it can directly affect the human body's resistance to viruses.
1、Sleep more
As long as you sleep well, the virus can't run anywhere. When you were a child, your parents always let you go to bed early. It seems that there is scientific basis. People who sleep well will have a stronger immune system.
Some studies have pointed out that the symptoms of sleep deprived people will become more obvious after they are infected with COVID-19. It is precisely because sleep can protect the immune cells from other factors and better fight against viruses. So a good sleep after yang can also help the body recover faster.
In addition to affecting your immunity, lack of sleep has another side effect that makes everyone scared - becoming stupid. Do you think you often stay up late for the first time in your mind? What do you want to do for one second in a paste in two days? You may forget the next second, mainly because your brain is stuffed with too much garbage and not cleaned up in time.
When the body gets enough sleep and recuperates, the cerebrospinal fluid in the brain will start to work. Clean up your brain and clear up the garbage generated during the daytime sleep. But if you are not sleeping enough, the hippocampus will refuse to accept new information, so staying up late is not a good thing. Good sleep is the most scientific and effective way to replenish the brain at present. The top priority is to "sleep well"!
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Supplementary nutrition
Nutrition plays an important role in restoring vitality during rehabilitation. " Yu Kang, director of the Clinical Nutrition Department of Beijing Union Medical College Hospital, said that the recovery of vitality needs a process, which is gradual and gradual. Don't be too anxious. Eating and drinking desperately to supplement nutrition will lead to speed but not speed. From the perspective of specific diet, the first is to ensure energy intake. The energy mainly comes from staple food. During the recovery period, you should eat a little staple food with each meal, and gradually increase the amount. You can start with digestible fine grains, such as porridge, noodles and noodles, and then transition to soft rice flour and steamed bread. When your stomach is good, add some coarse grains.
The second is to ensure high-quality protein intake. Protein mainly comes from animal foods such as milk, eggs, lean meat, fish and shrimp. First choose those that are easy to digest and absorb, such as eggs, and then choose steamed fish and shrimp. Third, ensure that there are vegetables in every meal, and eat fruit every day, which is beneficial to supplement vitamins, potassium, sodium and other trace elements. For people with slow recovery of gastrointestinal function, especially the elderly, they can take some supplements on the basis of three meals, such as complex micronutrients, enteral nutrition solution and protein powder. If possible, you can consult the clinical nutrition doctor of the hospital for more professional guidance.
Liu Qingquan, president of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that traditional Chinese medicine has a concept of "food recovery" for patients in their recovery period, which means that improper diet may cause repeated illness. For example, patients with colds are most afraid to eat and drink during the recovery period, which may cause recurrence. The key to guard against "food recovery" is to do it step by step, do not overeat, eat six or seven minutes full.
"From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, COVIDis prone to damage the lungs, body fluid and dryness and heat." Liu Qingquan believes that proper use of some lung moistening methods will help restore vitality. For example, drink pear soup, yam porridge, rice porridge, millet porridge, and eat oranges to nourish the spleen and stomach and moisten the lungs.
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Cough, expectoration and throat discomfort, how to relieve them?
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, Qi inversion and phlegm expectoration are important factors, so we pay more attention to symptomatic treatment, and formulate the treatment principles of reducing the inversion and removing turbidity, strengthening the spleen and resolving phlegm; The first is to lower the turbid gas, the hydrogen will rise naturally, the gas engine will circulate, and the cough will stop naturally. The second is to moisten the lung, and at the same time to strengthen the spleen and spleen, which is the source of phlegm, and the lung is the instrument for storing phlegm. "Therefore, phlegm needs to be conditioned from the root, through strengthening the spleen, resolving phlegm, and facilitating pharynx, and coughing will stop.
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How to improve sleep quality?
Develop regular sleep habits
Stop all work one hour before going to bed, don't look at your mobile phone, don't look at your computer, don't do any strenuous exercise, and go to bed at the specified time, for example, before 10 o'clock, develop your biological clock, and cultivate your sleep habits and laws.
The bedroom must be kept quiet
The indoor temperature is a little cooler, which is more conducive to sleep. The best temperature is 18 ℃ to 22 ℃. The light color of the bedroom wall is the best. It is better to choose thick curtains that can block light and sound. The bedroom is as dark as possible, which can also improve sleep quality.
Relax your muscle before going to bed
Before going to bed, you can choose to take a slow and deep breath at a constant speed to relax yourself and relieve stress. In such a calm environment, it is more conducive to sleep and have high-quality sleep.
