Things need to know in elderly's dayly activities
The elderly should not chock pillow highly while sleeping. In order to limit lacking blood in brain suddenly, if you want to sit up when lying, you should not raise your hand suddenly, you have to turn head and lean your body, stand your hand gradually. Reading books on bed for a long time is harmful for your eyes, gets tired for body and hands gather blood lowly and cause hemorrhoids.
Getting up in the morning, you often have back, knee's articulation, and finger's articulation ache, move for a while to feel comfortable. However you need to see doctor to prevent articulation degeneracy. The relieve pain medicines ( Cortacyl, Indometacin, Alaxan...) are often harmful for stomach. So doing exercise is main treatment method. You should limber knees up first before putting your legs out of bed, stroke along waist muscle to ease a spasm of pain, crush knees then moving. Using pillow's cover (of footballer) IS the best way while stepping, moving up or down stairs if there is knee degeneracy.
After sleeping, if you feel strange such as being numbed a half of body, a paralyzed leg or hand, you need to rest and see doctor, not to have coin rubbing and try to do exercise. This is cardiovascular, especially having hypertension, aortosclerosis.
Lying, sitting and other activities.
Avoiding place with draught. If you are under fan, you should not let wind blow straightly behind the neck and head, you should use fan which can turn to change wind direction, not let wind blow directly to you. When opening the doors, you should hide after doors to avoid wind blow directly to your face, it is easy to catch a cold. You should sit a place where wind blow to your back when sitting in the strong wind.
Getting up or down stairs: if you feel tightness across chest strangely as usual, you should see doctor. If you have a stinging pain at left chest and difficult to breathe, need to notice myocardium anemia.
To keep a spinal column, you should not take something over high, carry too heavy things. While carrying, weight should be balanced in two sides. You should not bend when sweeping house, yard even carrying heavy things. Keeping your back straight in any situation if possible. Should place smooth pillow high enough into spinal column section while lying to treat the crooked back.
Doing physical and mental power activities are necessary for the elderly but doing them regularly and frequently, avoiding state of having or not. Brain's operating help quantity of blood to brain much more, if not brain is shrinking. Hands and legs do not operate, muscles are shrinking, and knees hurt, leading to depression, laziness, shortening longevity.
Relieving, urination .
Normally, everyday the elderly can relieve 3 times after meals or 2-3 days a time. Gross of shit does not exceed 200g if they have a little fibrous matter. Being called liquid relieve if they do it many times a day and liquid shit (often having trouble with large intestine.
Relieving 4 days a time is called constipation, dry shit with curl and much white sticky cover outside. If relieving once in 1-3 days with dry shit is not called constipation. Dry shit cause of using a little vegetable, drinking little water which compensates enough water for lost quantity of sweat after physical activities. People relieve in liquid must diet of fish, fat, milk, egg for many years, need to test carefully because it is a symbol of chronic colistic.due to using antibiotic medicine willingly.
Need to have a habit of relieving everyday or 1-2 times a day. If shit with fresh blood, you need to see doctor soon, test anus to discover the cancer of rectum's bottom. You should not exert strongly while relieving to prevent bleeding at injured blood vessel before.
May creating reflex of relieving easily by doing exercise, squeezing abdominal wall from right side to left side, drinking a glass of water, a cup of milk or coffee. Changing the posture while relieving (squatting, turning left side, bending back) also make muscles of anus open. After finishing, you should not stand up right away suddenly, you should bend forward and slowly to sit up. If you feel dizzy, lean on a place till out of being dizzy then standing up. If it lasts you should rest, having a doctor's treatment is a good way.
The normal elderly urinate easily, not sharp, burning and redundant; the ray of urine is straight not broken. Urinating at night causes insomnia or some diseases such as inflamed excretion, disease in prostate gland.
While urinating, you should lean on a place. If you feel dizzy, you bend forward till it stops. A quantity of heat is eliminated with urine, the pressure is stomach is lower due to loosing the prevention of versica; blood to brain is not enough. It cause dizzily and easily to fall. Experience shows that the elderly brain blood vessel accident easily meet at night while urinating. So if you are covering by warm blanket, you should open blanket gradually before sitting up to body's heat adapt with outside temperature at the same time you have to turn side way for q while then sitting up gradually. If urinating sharp, burning or with fresh blood, you should see specialist, at night, having a jerry beside bed, suitable with arm's reach, not having to be out of bed is good way.
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