What are the symptoms of hypoxia in the elderly?

1. What are the symptoms of hypoxia in the elderly?

Generally light is dizziness, headache, tinnitus, vertigo, weakness of limbs; or nausea, vomiting, palpitation, shortness of breath, shortness of breath, shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat and weakness.

With the aggravation of hypoxia, it is easy to cause confusion, bruising of skin, lips, and nails, blood pressure drop, mydriasis, coma; in severe cases, it may even lead to difficulty breathing, cardiac arrest, hypoxia asphyxia and death. Normal people occasionally die. Hypoxia symptoms can also occur.

Because the human body has a certain tolerance for short-term hypoxia, the occasional hypoxia symptoms are not terrible, but we should be vigilant about the frequent occurrence of hypoxia symptoms, because oxygen is indispensable for our human life activities. element. People who have been in a state of hypoxia for a long time have reduced immunity, easy to catch colds, and decreased exercise tolerance.

2. The harm of hypoxia in the elderly

In life, middle-aged and elderly people often have symptoms of dizziness, dizziness, and headache, as well as upset, tinnitus, irritability, insomnia and dreaminess, memory loss, inability to concentrate, and forgetfulness (such as: remembering something that happened recently). These are the results of chronic cerebral hypoxia.

According to statistics, the vast majority of middle-aged and elderly people suffer from chronic cerebral hypoxia, which is a frequently-occurring disease of the middle-aged and elderly. Domestic and foreign medical scientists have also found that chronic cerebral hypoxia existed for a long time in the early stage of "senile dementia" and "cerebral infarction". If chronic cerebral hypoxia is not treated in time, it may also cause "senile dementia" and "cerebral infarction". Therefore, chronic cerebral hypoxia is called a "killer" that threatens the health of middle-aged and elderly people.

3. Why are middle-aged and elderly people prone to cerebral hypoxia?

We all know that the brain is an important organ of the human body, and its oxygen consumption is relatively large. The weight of the brain only accounts for about 2% of the body weight, but the oxygen consumption accounts for 20% of the oxygen consumption of the whole body. All the oxygen needed by the brain is supplied by the blood, so there needs to be an adequate supply of blood for the brain to function properly. If the blood flow to a certain part of the brain is completely blocked in a relatively short period of time, local brain tissue necrosis will occur, which is cerebral infarction; if the blood supply to the brain is not completely blocked but slowly reduced, this is chronic cerebral hypoxia. The blood supply to the brain gradually decreases with age. The autoregulatory function of cerebral blood vessels also gradually declines, so as long as there is a slight change in blood supply, it will significantly affect the cerebral blood flow, resulting in the occurrence of chronic cerebral hypoxia.

What should the elderly eat in hypoxia?

Eat more milk, soybeans, walnuts, chestnuts, burdocks, carrots, spinach, millet, eggs, peanuts, corn, day lily, seafood, peppers, sea bass, scallops, oranges, grapefruit, pineapples, pears, seaweed, fungus, apricots, etc. .

Milk: rich in protein, calcium and vitamin B1 and amino acids necessary for the brain. Calcium in milk is easily absorbed. When overworked or insomnia, a glass of hot milk can help you fall asleep.

Carrots: Can stimulate the exchange of substances in the brain.

Corn: Corn embryo is rich in a variety of unsaturated fatty acids, which have the effect of protecting cerebral blood vessels and lowering blood lipids. The high content of glutamic acid can promote the metabolism of brain cells, strengthen the brain, and increase the oxygen supply to the brain.

Eggs: One egg per day is sufficient. People with memory loss eat 5 to 6 a day, which can improve memory (not suitable for people with high cholesterol), and is beneficial to the development of memory, especially egg yolks, which contain nutrients necessary for brain cells such as egg yolk and egg calcium, which can enhance Brain vitality.

Fish: Provides high-quality protein and calcium to the brain. The fatty acids contained in freshwater fish are mostly unsaturated fatty acids, which can protect the cerebral blood vessels and promote the activity of brain cells.

How to prevent cerebral hypoxia?

The severity of the consequences of cerebral hypoxia has a great relationship with the duration of hypoxia. Correcting hypoxia in time can avoid or reduce damage to tissues and organs, and quickly restore the body's metabolic function. If hypoxia is not corrected for a long time, the damage of cells will be difficult to recover and will lead to organ disease. Therefore, mental workers, white-collar workers who have been in air-conditioned rooms with low oxygen content for a long time, patients before and after surgery, tourists to plateau and other places, insomniacs, the elderly and expectant mothers during pregnancy should pay attention to oxygenating their brains In addition to direct oxygen inhalation, external oxygen supply also includes various aerobic exercises, such as walking, jogging, deep breathing, and improving the oxygen inhalation environment.

Oxygen therapy can also relieve stress (oxygen has a sedative effect), replenish physical strength, improve sleep, and improve mental outlook. It will be better to insist on oxygen inhalation every day. Hypoxia is generally a long time, and oxygen supplementation should be done slowly. If you want to have a better body and be a long-lived old man, it is especially important to insist on oxygen inhalation!

Be a healthy old man

Righteousness is the ability of the body to maintain life activities, including the body's ability to adapt to the environment. The stronger the ability to resist diseases, the better the internal and external balance of the body can be maintained, and the good state of "righteousness is inside, evil cannot be done". The stronger the righteousness, the stronger the body's ability to resist various diseases and evils, and the stronger it is in the face of various external pathogenic factors. The stronger the righteousness, the stronger the self-rehabilitation ability. The same medicine for the same disease, the more obvious the effect of the righteousness filling treatment, and the righteousness is the foundation of prolonging life. Oxygen inhalation can play a role in health care for healthy people. Due to the increasingly serious air pollution, regular oxygen inhalation can clean your respiratory system, improve visceral function, improve the comprehensive immunity of the human body, and prevent various diseases.