Tips for preventing heatstroke and cooling down

Are you ready for the upcoming hot summer? The global temperature is gradually rising, and people's living environment is becoming more and more crowded, making it easy for everyone to suffer from heat stroke. Therefore, we must understand the basic knowledge of heatstroke prevention and cooling down, which can help us prevent heat stroke, have a cool summer, and let others envy your happiness. In fact, the common sense of preventing heatstroke and cooling down is very simple.

The most important thing to prevent heatstroke is to replenish the body's salt and water, so that the body will not suffer from heatstroke due to lack of water. Because in the hot summer, the human body will produce a lot of sweat, which will drain away the body's water and salt and make people faint.

Drink cooling drinks regularly

In addition to paying attention to your physical condition, environment, diet, and always having some anti-heatstroke medicines such as Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, Shidi Shui, and Ren Dan, drinking more anti-heatstroke and cooling drinks is also one of the best ways to prevent heatstroke. Here are some cooling drinks:

1. Hawthorn soup. Add 100 grams of hawthorn slices and 50 grams of sour plums into 3.5 kilograms of water and boil until soft. Add 100 grams of white chrysanthemum and bring to a boil. Then add appropriate amount of white sugar and let it cool before drinking.

2. Iced watermelon syrup. Peel and seed the watermelon, dice the flesh, pour into a bowl with the juice and chill. Then add appropriate amount of rock sugar and white sugar to water and boil it, skim off the foam and refrigerate. When eating, pour the diced watermelon into iced sugar water.

3. Mung bean and sour plum soup. Boil 150 grams of mung beans and 100 grams of sour plums in water, add appropriate amount of sugar, let cool and drink.

4. Honeysuckle (or chrysanthemum) soup. Add 30 grams of honeysuckle (or chrysanthemum) to appropriate amount of white sugar, brew with boiling water, and drink after cooling.

5. Watermelon rind soup. Wash the watermelon, cut off the thin green skin, add water and boil for 30 minutes, remove the residue and add appropriate amount of sugar, and drink after cooling.

6. Coconut milk and Tremella soup. Wash 30 grams of white fungus, soak it in warm water, remove the hard skin, and boil it with 125 grams of coconut milk, rock sugar and appropriate amount of water.

Summer heat prevention tips

1. Eat small and frequent meals: The more you eat in one meal, the more metabolic heat your body will generate in order to digest the food. Pay special attention to eating less high-protein foods, which generate more metabolic heat.

2. Eating spicy food: Doctors believe that although it is unimaginable to eat these things on a hot day, spicy food can stimulate the heat reception in the mouth, improve blood circulation, and cause a lot of sweating, which helps to lower body temperature;

3. Warm water shower: It is best to shower or bathe with warm water slightly below body temperature, especially before going to bed;

The above is an introduction to some common knowledge about heatstroke prevention and cooling down. I hope it will be of some help to you in the summer. If you make good use of some of the simple methods above, you can avoid heatstroke. You can also introduce these methods to your relatives and friends around you so that they can also have a cool summer.