Best Summer Health Care Tips

Summer brings a host of problems skin, hair and health problems such as sunstroke and heat boils. Summer calls for a change in diet and other healthy living tips. We chalk out the 15 best summer health tips to practice this summer season.

Heatstroke

Heat stroke a severe form of hypothermia occurs when the human body absorbs more heat than it can dissipate. This is a serious condition and needs immediate medical attention.

Solution: It is important to lower the temperature of the body so you dive into ice or if you have to take a cold shower. You can prevent heat stroke by wearing loose and light clothing, drink water and exercise not even during the summer.

Heat cramps symptoms

Muscle pain or cramps usually occur in the abdomen, arms or legs. Spasms usually occur in consultation with strenuous physical activity.

Home remedies: Rest in a cool place. Drink clear juice or electrolyte enriched drinks. Do not return to strenuous activity subside even after seizures, because it can lead to heat exhaustion or heat stroke.

Heat stroke symptoms

Heavy sweating, weakness, dizziness, headache, nausea, fainting, muscle cramps, fainting.

Home remedies: Rest Have cool non alcoholic drinks, a cool shower, bath or sponge bath. Use light clothing.

Dehydration symptoms

Dry mouth and eyes, dry skin, a condition where almost stops, muscle cramps, nausea, heart palpitations, sweating and dizziness.

Prevention: Re hydration with water, clear broths and all other water replacement contain electrolytes, such as Gatorade.

Home remedies: Fluid replacement and control of food and drugs. Fever medications.

Skin Care: Rosacea

Rosacea symptom is your skin turns red because of over exposure to the sun and the heat. The redness seems to be causing the excess heat that the blood vessels to dilate.

Remedy: Avoid direct sunlight. Always use a good sunscreen.

Skin Care: Sunburn

The ultra violent radiation burns the skin if you spend long hours in direct sun. Sunburn symptoms are dark spots from skin exfoliation.

Remedy: For Indians, it is recommended to stay at home, at 10.00 clock at 16.00, when the sunlight is at its peak.

Home remedies: Mix the juice of six peeled cucumber, two cups of dried milk powder and two teaspoons of lavender flowers.

Apply the above paste directly on the affected skin area.

A cup of the mixture added to warm water can be used as a skin smoothing balm be used.

Skin Care: Sun tan

Sun tan makes your skin darker, which is a taboo for Indians.

Remedy: Avoid sunscreen repeated every two to three hours. Skin lightening treatments and therapies such as re hydration helps.

Skin Care: Prickly heat

Prickly heat affects everyone, it is a result of sweat and moisture, causing the bacterial infection on the skin.

Remedy: With cold showers, wear loose clothing, putting talcum powder after a bath, use calamine lotion on the rashes.

Apply medical talcum powder.

Keep the area clean and dry.

Skin Care: Foot infection

Sweat and moisture can increase your chances of foot infection during the summer.

Solution: There are several antibacterial powder in medical stores. And scrub your feet and toes thoroughly wash away the bacteria. But for dire skin ailment consult a dermatologist.

skin care: Shed

Dandruff is aggravated heat and sweat in summer. Dandruff causes hair loss and is an unsanitary condition of the skin.

Summer diet

You have to eat cold foods like watermelon, yogurt, berries and the like. Such foods are low in calories and in addition require very little energy for digestion. Normally such foods are taste better when chilled and are therefore traditionally eaten in this way Of course eating low calorie foods such as chilled feels good in the summer months.

Importance of including a variety of foods in the diet. All nutrients are important in the summer months especially the minerals that are lost in sweat required. It is possible to fill these micro-nutrients again only when the diet contains varied food groups such as fruits, vegetables, dairy, cereals, meat, pulse and fats.

Importance of choosing carefully fats. In the summer months a number of people want to lose that weight switch to zero fat diet. This is not a healthy development. The essential fatty acids that the body needs are available through diet alone. It is therefore useful to limit fat intake to only the essential requirement but to avoid all the extras.

Drinking very cold liquids is not advisable. Food consumed at extreme temperatures, whether hot or cold, is not appropriate for the body. The body has to work to the temperature close to body temperature can get extra. Drinking (as opposed to hot and cold contrast) warm or cool liquids are best for the body.

Maintain a good food hygiene levels. Many harmful bacteria and viruses thrive in the summer months when the temperature is conducive to their growth. The bad bugs usually enter the body through food and water. Therefore the maintenance of food hygiene is this season is crucial.