How meteorological conditions affect the body depends on its adaptive abilities: someone reacts to them, someone does not notice at all, but there are those who, according to their well-being, can predict the weather. It is believed that people with an unbalanced nervous system - melancholic and choleric people - are especially susceptible to weather dependence. In sanguine and phlegmatic people, it most often manifests itself either against the background of a weakened immune system, or with a chronic disease. However, meteosensitivity as a diagnosis is characteristic just for those who already suffer from some kind of disease. As a rule, these are pathologies of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, diseases nervous system, rheumatoid arthritis.
What weather factors affect our well-being? The head of the neurology department of the 122nd clinical hospital, Professor Alexander Yelchaninov, refers to the most significant meteotropic factors as air temperature, humidity, wind speed and barometric (atmospheric) pressure. The human body is also influenced by heliophysical factors - magnetic fields.
Air temperature
It has the most noticeable effect on human well-being in combination with air humidity. The most comfortable is the combination of temperature 18-20C ° and humidity 40-60%. At the same time, fluctuations in air temperature in the range of 1-10 ° C are considered favorable, 10-15 ° C - unfavorable, and above 15 ° C - very unfavorable. - explains Professor Elchaninov. - Comfort temperature for sleep - from 16 ° C to 18 ° C.
The oxygen content in the air directly depends on the air temperature. When it gets cold, it is saturated with oxygen, and when it gets warmer, on the contrary, it becomes thinner. Typically in hot weather the atmospheric pressure also decreases, and as a result, those suffering from diseases of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems do not feel well.
If, against the background of high pressure, the air temperature drops and is accompanied by cold rains, then hypertensive patients, asthmatics, people with kidney stones and cholelithiasis... Sudden changes in temperature (8-10 ° C per day) are dangerous for allergy sufferers and asthmatics.
Extreme temperatures
According to the director of the State Research Center for Preventive Medicine Sergei Boytsov, in case of abnormal heat, people with a normal thermoregulation mechanism, in which the cardiovascular system is actively involved, increases blood circulation directly under the skin, feel best. But if the air temperature exceeds 38 degrees, it no longer saves: the external temperature becomes higher than the internal temperature, there is a risk of thrombus formation against the background of centralization of blood flow and blood clotting. Therefore, in the heat, there is a great risk of stroke. Doctors advise when abnormal heat stay in a room with an air conditioner or at least a fan as much as possible, avoid the sun, unnecessary physical exertion. The rest of the recommendations depend on the state of health of the person.
An anticyclone is an increased atmospheric pressure, which brings with it calm, clear weather, without sudden changes in temperature and humidity.
A cyclone is a reduced atmospheric pressure, which is accompanied by cloudiness, high humidity, precipitation and an increase in air temperature.
In extreme frosty weather, the body can be hypothermic due to increased heat transfer. The combination of low temperature with high humidity and high air velocity is especially dangerous. Moreover, due to reflex mechanisms, the sensation of cold arises not only in the area of its influence, but also in parts of the body that seem to be far from it. So, if your feet are frozen, your nose will inevitably freeze, a sensation of cold will arise in your throat, as a result of which ARVI, diseases of ENT organs develop. Also, if you are frozen, say in anticipation public transport, another reflex mechanism is activated, in which there is a spasm of the vessels of the kidneys, circulatory disorders, and a decrease in immunity are also possible. As a rule, extremely low temperatures cause spastic-type reactions. Any procedures and actions that increase blood circulation help to cope with them: gymnastics, hot foot baths, a sauna, a bath, a contrast shower.
Air humidity
At high temperature air humidity (air saturation with water vapor) decreases, and in rainy weather it can reach 80-90%. During the heating season, the air humidity in our apartments drops to 15-20% (for comparison: in the Sahara Desert the humidity is 25%). Often it is the dryness of the home air, and not high humidity on the street, becomes the cause of the addiction to colds: the mucous membranes of the nasopharynx dry out, reducing its protective functions, which makes it easy for respiratory viruses to "take root". To avoid increased dryness in the nasopharynx, allergy sufferers and often suffering from ENT diseases, it is recommended to rinse with a solution of slightly salted or non-carbonated mineral water.
With high humidity, people suffering from diseases of the respiratory tract, joints and kidneys are more likely to get sick, especially if the humidity is accompanied by a cold snap.
Fluctuations in moisture indicators from 5 to 20% are assessed as more or less favorable for the body, and from 20 to 30% - as unfavorable.
Wind
Air speed - the wind is perceived by us as comfortable or uncomfortable, depending on the humidity and air temperature. So, in the thermal comfort zone (17-27C °) with a quiet and light wind (1-4 m / s), a person feels good. However, as soon as the temperature rises, he will experience a similar sensation if the air movement becomes faster. Conversely, for low temperatures Oh high speed wind enhances the feeling of cold. The mountain-valley wind and other wind regimes (breeze, hair dryer) have a daily periodicity. The importance of have day-to-day fluctuations in the wind regime: the difference in air speed within 0.7 m / s is favorable, and 8-17 m / s is unfavorable.
Meteosensitive people are sure that the main role in their reaction to the weather, atmospheric pressure exerts. This is so and not so. Because it basically affects our body in combination with others. natural phenomena... It is generally accepted that the meteorological state is observed at an atmospheric pressure of about 1013 mbar, that is, 760 mm Hg. Art., - says Professor Alexander Elchaninov.
If, with a decrease in atmospheric pressure, the oxygen content in the atmosphere drops sharply, humidity and temperature increase, a person's blood pressure drops and the blood flow rate decreases, as a result, breathing becomes difficult, a heaviness appears in the head, and the work of the cardiovascular system is disrupted. When atmospheric pressure drops, hypotonic people feel worst of all, which is manifested by pronounced pastiness (swelling) of tissues, tachycardia, tachypnea (rapid breathing), that is, symptoms characterizing the deepening of hypoxia (oxygen starvation) caused by low atmospheric pressure. In hypertensive patients, such weather improves their well-being: blood pressure decreases and only with increasing hypoxia do drowsiness, fatigue, shortness of breath, ischemic heart pains appear, that is, the same symptoms that hypotensive patients experience immediately in such weather. When the temperature decreases with an increase in atmospheric pressure, the oxygen content in the air increases, hypertensive patients feel bad, because their blood pressure rises and the blood flow rate increases. Hypotonic people live well in such weather, they feel a surge of strength.
Solar Activity
We are children of the sun; if it were not there, there would be no life. Thanks to the notorious solar wind and changes in solar activity, the Earth's magnetic field, the permeability of the ozone layer, standards meteorological conditions... It is the sun that affects the cyclicality of the human body, which works in accordance with the seasons. We have an innate need for a certain amount of sunlight, sunlight and heat. No wonder, with a short winter daylight almost everyone suffers from hyposolar syndrome: increased sleepiness, fatigue, depression, apathy, decreased performance and attention. We can say that the number of sunny days per year for the body is much more important than a change in, say, atmospheric pressure. Therefore, residents of coastal, for example, Mediterranean countries, or highlands, live more comfortably than Petersburgers or polar explorers.
Weather in the house
We cannot influence the weather conditions. But we can reduce the health risks associated with the influence of the external environment. The main thing to remember is that meteosensitivity does not manifest itself as an independent problem, it is like a car after a steam locomotive, it follows a certain disease, most often a chronic one. Therefore, first of all, it is necessary to identify and treat it. In case of exacerbation of the disease on the background bad weather, you should take medications prescribed by a doctor for the underlying pathology (migraine, vascular dystonia, panic attacks, neuroses and neurasthenia). And besides, in accordance with the weather forecast, you need to develop certain rules of behavior for yourself. For example, "cores" react sharply to high humidity air and the approach of a thunderstorm, which means that on such days it is necessary to avoid physical exertion and be sure to take medications prescribed by a doctor.
- Anyone who has a change climatic conditions the state of health changes, it is important to be more careful about your health on such days: do not overwork, get enough sleep, avoid drinking alcohol, as well as physical activity. Postpone, for example, jogging every morning, otherwise, say, in hot weather, you can run away from a heart attack and resort to a stroke. Any emotional and physical exercise in bad weather - this is stress that can lead to failures of autonomic regulation, heart rhythm disturbances, surges in blood pressure, exacerbation of chronic diseases.
- Monitor barometric pressure to understand how to control blood pressure. For example, with low atmospheric hypertension, it is necessary to reduce the intake of drugs that lower blood pressure, and for hypotensive patients - to take adaptogens (ginseng, eleutherococcus, lemongrass), drink coffee. And in general, it should be remembered that in summer, in warm and hot weather, there is a redistribution of blood from internal organs to the skin, so blood pressure is lower in summer than in winter.
- Residents of St. Petersburg, like any other metropolis, most lives are spent indoors. And the more time we "hide" in comfort from external climatic factors, the more the balance between the human body and external environment, its adaptive capabilities are reduced. We need to improve the body's resistance to adverse weather changes. Therefore, if there are no contraindications, train the autonomic nervous and cardiovascular systems. A contrast or cold shower, a Russian bath, a sauna, walking tours, better before bedtime will help you with this.
- Organize physical activity for yourself - they increase blood pressure, decrease the level of oxygen in tissues, increase metabolism, heat generation and heat transfer. The cardiovascular and respiratory systems are well trained by brisk walking for 1 hour, light jogging, swimming. Trained people can easily tolerate changes in the weather, which have a similar effect on the body.
- It is recommended to sleep with the window open. Moreover, the sleep should be sufficient - upon waking up, you should feel that you have slept well.
- Monitor the level of humidity and artificial light in the apartment.
- Dress according to the weather to keep your body comfortable in all weather conditions.
- If you find yourself feeling dependent on the weather, forget about traveling to distant countries"From winter to summer" or "from summer to winter". Disruption of seasonal adaptation is dangerous even for those who are practically healthy.
Irina Dontsova
Dr. Peter
The weather now and then goes to extremes: from unbearable frosts to warm spring-like days. Such changes cannot but affect our body. We will tell you how to get through this difficult period.
Protect the heart and blood vessels
One of the most common causes of poor health meteorological people- change in atmospheric pressure. Abrupt weather changes, first of all, negatively affect the health of people suffering from cardiovascular diseases. Their health worsens due to a decrease in atmospheric pressure, forcing the vessels to work with increased stress.
Influence of temperature drops on pressure. In winter, severe frosts traditionally bring areas of high atmospheric pressure - anticyclones. They are characterized by cloudy or clear weather without precipitation. The Atlantic cyclone, a giant atmospheric vortex dominated by reduced pressure, brings in warmer air.
Where is the relationship between atmospheric and blood pressure? Although we cannot see or feel air, it is not ethereal. This gas has a weight that would flatten us if its own pressure - arterial pressure - were not maintained inside the human body. Depending on how the atmospheric pressure changes, our own becomes lower or higher.
This process takes place thanks to the baroreceptors that are located in the vessels. In a healthy person, they will easily adapt to what is happening, but in meteosensitive ones, unfortunately, they will not cope with such a task as well as we would like. When atmospheric pressure increases, baroreceptors not only increase the pressure, but provoke a surge in it. As a result, the person begins to have a headache, nausea appears and “flies” flash before the eyes. A slight chill is sometimes joined to these sensations. With a decrease in atmospheric pressure, meteosensitive people have the same reaction: at first, their baroreceptors decrease arterial parameters, but at a certain moment the body thinks that these parameters become too low, which is why it immediately provokes a sharp increase.
What to do?
Eliminate foods that increase blood pressure from your diet: coffee, fish and meat broths, strong tea, sodas, beans and peas.
Don't overeat. It is better to make a diet of fish and vegetable dishes, while eating more greens.
Moderate physical activity, give up hard work. Try to unload this day as much as possible.
For sleep disturbances, take sedatives (motherwort or valerian tincture). However, the best remedy for "weather insomnia" is considered to be a melatonin tablet taken at night.
We save ourselves from colds
Disease-causing bacteria and viruses are activated during warming, and not in severe frosts. The increased humidity of the air helps to reduce the body's resistance to disease. Therefore, at this time it is easiest to catch a flu or a cold, which can be complicated by bronchitis, and the incidence of pneumonia also increases.
What to do?
Dress warmly enough to keep you cool, but don't overdo it so you don't overheat. Try not to get your feet wet.
Give up cigarettes or smoke less for a while.
If you experience suffocation, shortness of breath or oxygen starvation (hypoxia), this is due to the fact that the cyclone causes a decrease in atmospheric pressure, as a result of which the oxygen content in the air decreases. Because of this, breathing will be difficult even in a healthy person, to say nothing of patients with bronchial asthma. Therefore, the main rule of asthmatics these days is to remember about the inhaler.
Track your mood
Any natural disasters have an impact on the mental state of a person. Due to abnormal atmospheric pressure, some people turn into a somnambulist. Others, on the other hand, develop unexplained aggression. It is especially important for these people to learn how to relax after hard day... Choose the relaxation method based on your preferences: meditation, yoga, auto-training, walking before bed.
Try these days to pull yourself together and not quarrel with anyone, as stress will only aggravate the painful condition. Those feeling aggression, nervousness and excitement these days should not drive, plan serious negotiations, or do dangerous work.
Protect your joints
People with sore joints feel the slightest weather changes more acutely than others. Warming or cooling, together with high humidity, negatively affect the condition of such patients. In the case of using warming ointments and dressings made of natural wool, you can get rid of the pain at least for a while.
Don't fall
During the thaw, ice often forms, which is why emergency rooms are filled with people with bruises, fractures and concussions. In addition, victims of icicles and ice falling from roofs are admitted to hospitals. The number of road accidents is on the rise, as cars slow down and maneuver with great difficulty on slippery roads. Therefore, walk slowly, away from buildings and carefully look at your step. For this period, you need to give preference to non-slip flat shoes.
The health and mental state of a person depends on many factors. One of them is the climate, it is he who has a huge impact on the human body. In this article, we will look at how the climate affects people.
When climatic effects are noticeable
The most obvious impact occurs in the following cases:
- A sharp change in the weather. Sudden strong wind, a thunderstorm or cold snap causes a change in the state of health. In stronger people, the deterioration of well-being is practically not felt, but in the heart, hypertensive patients, diabetics, severe headaches begin, blood pressure rises up to a hypertensive crisis, and there may be a heart attack.
- Long distance travel. Climate and humans are closely related to each other. For example, when the inhabitants of the north come on vacation to the sea, for a while they do not feel very well due to the sea air, hot sun and other factors. Doctors do not recommend long-distance travel for people with chronic diseases.
Many people believe that if you live in one place for a long time, then over time the body adapts, and all influence stops, but in fact this is not so. Climatic conditions affect a person constantly. For some, this is a beneficial effect, for others it is detrimental. It all depends on the individual characteristics of each.
What is climate
This is not only a combination of hot and cold days in a year, not only average daily temperature or the amount of precipitation. This is as well as terrestrial and solar radiation, magnetic field, landscape, electricity emitted by the atmosphere. The influence of climate on humans occurs due to the combination of these factors.
Scientific approach
Even in ancient times, in India and Tibet, conclusions were made about how different weather conditions, such as sun, rain, thunderstorms, affect well-being. In these countries, to this day, they study how the climate affects people. For treatment, techniques are preserved that are closely related to the seasons or the weather. Already in the 460s, Hippocrates wrote in his treatises that weather and health have a direct connection with each other.
The development and progression of some diseases varies throughout the year. All doctors know that an exacerbation occurs in winter and autumn. gastrointestinal diseases... More scientific approach to this issue was carried out in the XIX century, when at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences prominent scientists of that time - Pavlov, Sechenov and others - studied how the climate affects people. They conducted medical experiments, analyzed the available information and came to the conclusion that some epidemics appear and are especially difficult depending on climatic conditions. Thus, an outbreak of West Nile fever was recorded twice in Russia during an abnormally warm winter. Already in our time, these observations have been repeatedly confirmed.
Interaction types
There are two types of climate influence on the body: direct and indirect. The first is directly related to climatic conditions, and its results are easily distinguishable. This can be observed on the processes of human heat exchange and environment as well as on skin, sweating, circulation and metabolism.
The indirect influence of climate on a person is longer in time. These are changes in his body that occur after a certain period of stay in a specific natural zone. One example of this influence is climate adaptation. Many climbers experience painful sensations and breathing problems when climbing to high altitudes. However, they disappear with frequent ascents or with a certain adaptation program.
The effect of high temperatures on the human body
A hot climate, especially a tropical one, is a very aggressive environment in terms of the degree of impact on the human body. This is primarily due to increased heat transfer. At high temperatures, it rises 5-6 times. This leads to the fact that the receptors transmit signals to the brain, and the blood begins to circulate much faster, at this time vasodilation occurs. If such measures are not enough to maintain heat balance, then profuse sweating begins. Most often, people who suffer from heart disease suffer from heat. Doctors confirm that hot summer is the time when most heart attacks occur, as well as exacerbation of chronic cardiovascular diseases.
You should also know how the climate affects people living in the tropics. They have a lean build, more sinewy build. Elongated limbs can be observed among the inhabitants of Africa. Among the inhabitants of hot countries, people with large fat deposits are less common. In general, the populations of these countries are "smaller" than those who live in natural areas where the climate is temperate.
Effect on well-being of lower temperatures
For those who enter the northern regions or live there permanently, a decrease in heat transfer is observed. This is achieved by slowing down blood circulation and vasoconstriction. The normal reaction of the body is to achieve a balance between heat transfer and heat generation, and if this does not happen, then the body temperature gradually decreases, body functions are inhibited, a mental disorder occurs, the result of this is cardiac arrest. Important role in the normal life of the body where there is a cold climate, lipid metabolism plays. The northerners have a much faster and easier metabolism, so a constant replenishment of energy losses is needed. For this reason, their main diet is fats and proteins.
The inhabitants of the north have a larger physique and a significant layer of subcutaneous fat, which prevents the release of heat. But not all people are able to normally adapt to the cold, if there is abrupt change climate. Usually, the work of the defense mechanism in such people leads to the fact that they develop a "polar disease". To avoid difficulties with adaptation to cold, you need to take in large quantities vitamin C.
Changing climatic conditions
Weather and health have a direct and very close relationship with each other. In regions characterized by a gradual change in weather conditions, people experience these transitions less acutely. It is believed that the middle lane has the most favorable climate for health. Because where the change of seasons occurs very abruptly, most people suffer from rheumatic reactions, pain in places of old injuries, headaches associated with pressure drops.
However, there is also back side medals. Temperate climate does not contribute to the development of rapid adaptation to new environment... Few people from middle lane they are able to get used to a sharp change in ambient temperature without any problems, and immediately adapt to the hot air and bright sun of the south. They are more likely to suffer from headaches, burn faster in the sun and take longer to get used to new conditions.
The fact that climate and man are inextricably linked is confirmed by the following facts:
- Inhabitants of the south are more difficult to endure the cold where the locals can walk without wearing a lot of clothes.
- When people in arid regions enter a tropical area where water is literally in the air, they become sick.
- The heat and high humidity make people from the middle lane and northern regions lethargic, painful and apathetic, it becomes difficult for them to breathe, and sweating also increases significantly.
Temperature fluctuations
Temperature extremes are a serious health test. Climate change is especially painful for a child. What happens in the body during sudden temperature fluctuations?
A very cold climate provokes excessive excitement, at the same time, the heat, on the contrary, plunges a person into a state of apathy. The change in these two states depends on the rate at which the temperature changes. At sharp cold snap or warming, chronic problems are aggravated, cardiovascular diseases... Only with a smooth transition from low temperatures to high temperatures and vice versa, the body has time to adapt.
Height is also unsafe
Air humidity and pressure changes also have serious significance... This primarily affects thermoregulation. Cold air cools the body, while hot air, on the contrary, to which the skin receptors react accordingly. This effect is very well noticeable when climbing the mountains, where climatic conditions, atmospheric pressure, wind speed and air temperature change with every ten meters.
Already at an altitude of 300 meters, it begins due to the fact that the wind and low oxygen content in the air interfere with normal breathing. Blood circulation is accelerated because the body tries to disperse insufficient oxygen through all cells. With an increase in altitude, these processes intensify even more, a large number of erythrocytes and hemoglobin appear in the blood.
At high altitudes, where the oxygen content is low and the solar radiation is stronger, a person's metabolism is significantly increased. This can slow the progression of metabolic diseases. However, a sudden change in altitude can also have a detrimental effect. That is why many people are recommended to rest and treatment in sanatoriums at moderate altitudes, where the pressure is higher and more fresh air, but at the same time there is a sufficient amount of oxygen in it. In the last century, many tuberculosis patients were sent to such sanatoriums or to places with a dry climate.
Defense mechanism
With frequent changes in natural conditions, the human body over time builds something like a barrier, so no significant changes are observed. Adaptation occurs quickly and relatively painlessly, regardless of the direction of travel and how sharply the temperature changes with climate change.
Climbers experience great g-forces at the summits, which can be fatal. Therefore, they take with them special ones from local residents, who from birth live high above sea level, there are no such problems.
The mechanism of climate protection is currently unclear to scientists.
Seasonal fluctuations
Influence is also important seasonal changes... Healthy people practically do not react to them, the body adjusts itself to a certain time of the year and continues to work optimally for it. But people who have chronic ailments or injuries can react painfully to the transition from one season to the next. At the same time, everyone has a change in the speed of mental reactions, the work of the endocrine glands, as well as the rate of heat exchange. These changes are completely normal and not abnormal, so people do not notice them.
Weather dependence
Some people are especially sensitive to changes in the temperature environment and climate, this phenomenon is called meteopathy, or meteorological dependence. There can be many reasons for this: individual characteristics organism, weakened immunity due to illness. However, they may experience symptoms such as increased drowsiness and impotence, sore throat, runny nose, dizziness, inability to concentrate, shortness of breath and nausea.
In order to overcome these problems, you need to analyze your condition and identify what specific changes are causing these symptoms. After that, you can try to cope with them. First of all, the normalization of the general condition is promoted by healthy image life. It includes: prolonged sleep, proper nutrition, walking on fresh air, moderate physical activity.
To combat the heat and dryness of the air, you can use air fresheners and air conditioners, and plenty of drinking helps. Be sure to eat fresh fruit and meat.
Climatic changes during pregnancy
Often, meteorological dependence can occur in pregnant women, who previously quite calmly experienced the change of seasons or weather.
Long journeys or long journeys are not recommended for pregnant women. In an "interesting" position, the body is already under stress from hormonal changes, moreover, most of the nutrients go to the fetus, and not to the female body. For these reasons, the additional burdens associated with adapting to a new climate during travel are completely unnecessary.
The influence of climate on the child's body
Children are also sensitive to climate change. But here everything happens a little differently than in adults. The child's body, in principle, adapts much faster to any conditions, so a healthy child does not experience big problems when the season or climate changes.
The main problem with climate change lies not in the adaptation process, but in the child's own reaction. Any climatic change causes certain processes in the human body. And if adults are able to adequately respond to them, for example, in the heat, hide in the shade or put on hats, then in children the sense of self-preservation is not so developed. Body signals in adults will lead to certain actions being taken, the child will ignore them. It is for this reason that during a climate change, adults should closely monitor the condition of the baby.
Because children react more sharply to different climatic changes, there is a whole section in medicine - climatotherapy. Doctors who practice this kind of treatment, without the help of medication, can make significant improvements in a child's health.
Most beneficial influence the child's body has a sea or mountain climate. Marine salty water, sunbathing has a beneficial effect on his mental state, and also strengthens general health and promote the production of vitamin D.
In order to achieve a certain effect, the child needs to spend at least four weeks at the resort, this is the optimal period. In severe forms of chronic diseases or pathologies, the sanatorium period can take several months. Most often, treatment in sea and mountain areas is used for children with rickets, respiratory and skin diseases, mental disorders.
Impact of climate on older people
Elderly people are a category that needs to be especially attentive to climate change or travel. This is primarily due to the fact that elderly people often suffer from diseases of the cardiovascular system, as well as the musculoskeletal system. A sharp change in climate can adversely affect their health and the course of these diseases. In summer, seizures most often occur, the mortality rate of the elderly increases.
The second factor is the speed of adaptation as well as habits. If a young and healthy person needs from five to seven days to adapt to a new climate, then in older people these periods increase significantly, and the body is not always able to adequately respond to changes in temperature, humidity or pressure. This is the risk of travel for older people.
An abrupt change will surely entail a change in the time zone and the length of the day and night. These changes are hard to bear even healthy people, not to mention the old people. Insomnia is one of the most innocent problems in older people.
Impact on the health of different climatic zones
It has a beneficial effect on people with disorders of the nervous system. The cool air does not cause irritation, there is rarely a sharp change in temperature near the sea, it is warmer in winter and cooler in summer. Moreover, the sea scatters solar radiation, and the opportunity to enjoy great open space has a positive effect on the eyes and soothes the nerves.
The mountainous climate, on the other hand, serves to excite nervous activity and improve performance. This is due to high pressure, frequent changes in temperature, when you can sunbathe during the day, and at night you have to save yourself from frostbite. The rapid change of day and night plays a role, because in the mountains this process is almost invisible. Very often people engaged in creative activities go to the mountains to get inspiration.
The northern climate, where it is constantly cold and there is no particular variety of landscapes, temper not only character, but also human health. Scientists have proven that people who are constantly in places with a cold climate are more resistant to various diseases, including chronic ones. The inhabitants of the north practically do not get sick diabetes mellitus and aging more slowly.
Good afternoon, like-minded people! Today I will share with you my own opinion about the influence of weather on the mental and physical state of a person. There are many discussions about how weather changes affect a person. So, let's try to figure out with you which of this is true and which is fiction.
With the help of correctly formulated and presented information, the consciousness of the masses of people is manipulated. That is, information is nothing more than a means of managing individual groups of people and entire nations.
It was not for nothing that I started this article with the term manipulation of consciousness. You can believe it, or you can not believe it due to the lack of certain knowledge, but the fact remains. Constant changes in weather conditions have recently acquired manipulative features.
This is done in order to focus the attention of the masses on a specific problem, for example global warming or cold snap, solar flares and the like. While there is a reorientation of people's attention from some other, more pressing problem.
I will not say that this is bad. In terms of adherence to management principles large groups people, this is logical. Indeed, the people in their mass, lacking objective data on a particular problem, can do irreparable damage, and sometimes not only to the ruling elite, but also to themselves. Therefore, government circles (not political) people have always been distracted by various - less pronounced problems of a natural nature, and even stupidity.
The examples are simple. Just remember how much attention on TV and on the Internet is paid to the problems of global warming, and some are now talking about global cooling, and also discuss the topic of the existence of UFOs, some kind of cosmic holes, etc. And people in the majority of their masses subconsciously (from the point of view of the logic of psychology) absorb this information and willingly or not freely become its objects (carriers and distributors).
Oh, something I started to deviate from the topic. But this is a small lyrical digression so that you have a general idea that we are all being manipulated, they are laying down a specific program and style of behavior in society for us, distracting or, conversely, focusing our attention on a specific problem ... And " psychological game"With changing weather conditions is also included in the same list.
So does the change in the weather actually affect the human condition, or is it still a myth to distract attention. Let's figure this out.
How weather changes affect the human condition: man and nature
We live in a country where the temperature in some regions reaches the lower limit (up to -50 degrees Celsius), while in others it rises above +40 in the summer. You can also observe such a picture when in the same region the air temperature is -40 in winter and +40 in summer.
This, of course, has its advantages. Fun for the kids. In winter, you can build an ice fortress, play snowballs, ride down an ice slide. In summer, go swimming in a river or lake. Of course, these are the memories of my childhood. Children today spend their time in a slightly different way. Although on the streets you can see children playing in places where the so-called "renovations" and "modernizations" have not yet reached international process globalization; where popular stereotypes have not yet been completely destroyed.
So let's get down to business. We are still talking about how changes in the weather affect the mental and physical state of a person, I would even say: on human health.
First, let's find out what weather is from a scientific point of view. So, weather is a set of physical properties of the surface layer of the atmosphere over a relatively short period of time (hour, day, week, month). As a rule, the weather corresponds to the climatic conditions of a particular region of our country and the planet as a whole. That is, for some region, rains are typical on most days of the year, and on some drier days. There are notions of the norm. They are individual for each subject.
It is worth stating the fact that man is a part of nature; it is a biophysical body that interacts with its other elements through complex system receptors. That is, a person, being a part of nature, cannot but be exposed to various climatic factors: atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity, Earth's magnetic background, solar activity, radiation, etc. The response of the human body, as a rule, occurs to changes in any of the listed natural factors.
That is, the influence of changes in weather conditions on a person's condition is natural and logical from the point of view of the world order. But man has been living on planet Earth for not the first century. Over the long millennia, every living organism has developed a protective function that allows it to tolerate certain weather changes in a particular season of the year.
Our body, one way or another, adapts to changes in the weather in order to maintain its internal constancy. There is a restructuring of certain biological systems organism. Specifically: the production of hormones increases, the activity of enzymes increases, blood clotting and platelet count change. There is a change in vascular tone to change the intensity of heat transfer.
In other words, the restructuring of systems when the weather changes is a kind of adaptation of the body to new conditions. A significant part of people do not feel it in any way. But for some, the adaptation mechanisms are delayed or do not work at all. And then it develops hypersensitivity organism to the change of weather, which is called meteosensitivity. It is in these cases that the state of a person depends on the change in weather.
Hence, we can state the fact that people who have lived for many generations in the same territorial area are less susceptible to weather changes than those who have moved there recently. It should be borne in mind that the adaptation period may be too long. It all depends on the genetic and physiological characteristics of a particular person. It is under these circumstances that the change in the weather affects the state of a person.
Also meteosensitive, as a rule, are people with pre-existing diseases - cardiovascular diseases and diseases respiratory system... But the influence of weather changes on a person's condition can also be found in a healthy person.
People who are dependent on meteorological factors, but do not have chronic diseases, may experience increased fatigue, both physical and mental, when the weather changes. Unreasonable excitement, anxiety, irritability, irascibility may even develop. Sleep may be disturbed: some people - , others have constant drowsiness. Headaches, an unreasonable rise in blood pressure (BP) or a rise in body temperature to subfebrile numbers - 37.0-37.3. Cramping abdominal pains not associated with food intake may occur. These manifestations begin with a change in weather factors, pass on their own and, which is very important, are not considered a disease.
Let's take a closer look at the possible reaction of the body to changes in certain climatic factors.
Possible body reaction to magnetic storms
During the period when a flash occurs in the sun, the flow of charged particles rushes towards the Earth with great speed. The magnetic field of our planet takes on this blow. From this impact, radio waves of various frequencies are generated. Scientists call this phenomenon a perturbation of the Earth's geomagnetic field, and among the people there is a concept - "magnetic storm". Although the human body is affected by radio waves.
A person who is sensitive to magnetic storms may experience a rapid heart rate, and an oxygen starvation headache may develop. This is due to the fact that the blood becomes more viscous and hardly moves through the thin vessels of the brain.
In general, it should be noted that you and I live in a world in which all living things are surrounded from all sides by various energy waves. Energy surrounds us. Water, fire, air, earth, even you and me - we generate energy. Even a stone can generate energy. The interaction of energy waves can be positive or negative. That is why we are so sensitive to thunderstorms, winds, storms, changes in air temperature. Any natural changes energetically affect the living organisms of the planet. Therefore, to a certain extent, this is normal.
The influence of atmospheric pressure on the human condition
How else does weather change affect a person's condition? This can happen when the atmospheric pressure changes. Atmospheric pressure changes when some natural phenomenon approaches, for example, thunderstorms and winds, in winter when cold weather or snow falls. Asthmatics and people with heart disease are especially sensitive to pressure changes.
This is due to the fact that a change in atmospheric pressure leads to a change in the internal pressure in the human body. Accordingly, there is a direct relationship between natural phenomena and the living organisms of the planet.
Influence on the human condition with a decrease in pressure
Let's go further. How else does weather change affect a person's condition? Possible pressure drop. A decrease in pressure indicates an increase in humidity, possible precipitation and almost always leads to an increase in air temperature. Again, the heart and people suffering from respiratory diseases are more sensitive to a decrease in pressure.
In such patients, there is a feeling of lack of air and shortness of breath. General weakness may occur. During this period, migraine attacks are often exacerbated in meteosensitive people.
Influence on the human condition with increasing pressure
The pressure rises upon the onset clear weather, and in winter - at the onset of frost. Allergy sufferers, hypertensive patients, as well as people with respiratory diseases are acutely aware of the approach of clear weather.
When the pressure rises, as a rule, calm weather is established in nature. V large cities smog appears and concentration increases harmful substances from factories, factories and cars. Sensitive people may experience headaches and general malaise. It is worth noting that with an increase in pressure, immunity decreases sharply.
The effect of a sharp drop in temperature on a person's condition
For a comfortable life, we need an air temperature of +18 - +21 degrees. Yes Yes. This is exactly the temperature. Therefore, those who strive to live in hot countries for eternity simply do not realize what problems they may face in the future.
But nature does not always create such comfort for us. The fact is that temperature drops lead to a sharp change in the oxygen content in the air. So, with a decrease in temperature, the oxygen content in the air increases, and with an increase in temperature, it decreases. By the way, this is the reason why it is difficult to breathe in hot weather.
Any sudden change in air temperature negatively affects a person's well-being. The cause is the body's production a large number histamine, a substance that causes allergic reactions. This is how a change in the weather affects a person's condition.
How weather changes affect a person's condition: at the same time, he must warn
Recently, you can see that on TV and on the Internet here and there they say publicly that there was a flash in the sun, a magnetic storm is approaching, global warming all over the world. Everything would be fine if it was simply stated as a fact. But no. They immediately scream at the top of their lungs about diseases, changes in a person's condition, the need to stock up on the necessary medications. O-pa-chki! The necessary medications? This is the whole secret of this informational chatter!
Actually, touching upon psychology, I already wrote above, this "information noise" is a way to manipulate the consciousness of masses of people to distract attention. But private enterprises are not lagging behind in this either. The media propaganda today, unfortunately, acts, among other things, in the interests of large pharmaceutical companies. There is no need to promote this topic in this article. So I'll just state it as a fact!
Poor grandmothers were scared that any headaches were now associated with magnetic storms. Did you even know about them before? They knew, but there was no such information propaganda. And people lived in peace.
How weather changes affect a person's condition: solving a problem
Why did I decide to write this article at all? Yes, changes in nature directly affect the general condition of a person. This is logical enough. - an inseparable whole. My task is for you, knowing the information that how and under what circumstances changes in the weather affect a person's condition(in the event that you are affected by these changes) knew how to overcome such addiction.
Of course, I would NOT recommend you run to the pharmacy and buy remedies for headaches, increased or decreased blood pressure, and the like. I discussed this issue in detail in the book. ... In it, in a clear and understandable language, it is told about "putting people" on vitamin complexes, dietary supplements and medicines.
Remember, your health is only in your hands. Only you yourself can preserve your health throughout your life and ... Which is what I personally do. The main thing is to know how! If you are interested, you can borrow from your friends to read. I'm sure many people have it, because in the past year alone I sold about ten thousand copies of the book.
So what do I propose to reduce the impact natural changes on the state of the body:
- Turn off your TV, radio, surf the Internet less. Find something to do, take up a hobby, take a family trip to nature. Don't listen to false propaganda from “interested people”.
- Correct psychological attitude(this is the main aspect). "We are what we think of ourselves." Stop thinking about weather conditions, as I said before - watch less TV, especially TV shows that talk about the effect of weather on human health. The less you pay attention to this, the less it will bother the body with a sharp change in the weather. Give yourself a mindset: "nature does not have bad weather, any weather is up to me, how well I feel in such weather ..."
- ... Remember! Regular minute gymnastics "saves" the heart 7-10 beats per minute. Over the course of a year, this will help reduce the work of the heart by millions of beats, and avoid many heart diseases.
- Regularly (at least 3-4 times a week) engage in physical culture or sports training (read how physical education differs from sports in this ). Physical activity combined with proper nutrition increases the body's immune defenses, including protection from external effects of magnetic waves.
- Walk in the fresh air more often. In general, walking is very beneficial for your health, especially before bed.
- ... In combination with physical activity hardening will significantly strengthen the body's immunity, which will make it "impenetrable" even with the most drastic changes in the weather.
- Organize. Correct breathing improves the functioning of all systems of the human body. With the help of it, you will restore the mental and physical health, normalize sleep and improve overall well-being.
Here are the main tips in terms of how to reduce or prevent altogether "a sharp impact of weather changes on mental and physical condition." I hope that you have understood why today they are publicly talking about magnetic waves, radiation, global warming, etc.
I also hope that after reading this article, you will not repeat the mistakes that you made before. Remember the above nine points. It is they, and only they, who can change your life for the better. No pills, medications, vitamins, devices, ever and under any circumstances are able to fully and objectively help solve your health problem. Don't waste your money.
Yes, observing these 9 points, you will not immediately get rid of the sensitivity of weather changes. But step by step, gradually you will familiarize - temper your body to such changes.
Take care of your health. Remember, you can't buy health for any money! All in your hands. For all questions, write to e-mail.
Best regards, your home doctor and trainer Vinivitin P.A.
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Research work on geography Completed by: 8th grade student Yulia Efanova Supervisor: Fomina I.M. MBOU "Sukhosolotinskaya OOSH" Ivnyanskiy district Belgorod region"The influence of weather conditions on human health"
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The purpose of the work is to consider the impact different types weather on the physical condition of a person. The object of study is the types of weather. The subject of the research is the nature of their influence on human well-being.
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Research methods: classification, observation, survey, interview. Objectives: 1. To get acquainted with the literature and information on the Internet on this issue. 2.View general characteristics types of weather. 3. To study the influence of types of weather on human health. 4. Analyze the impact of weather changes on the attendance of students MBOU "Sukhosolotinskaya secondary school" classes in one of the spring months (March). 5. Carry out a questionnaire survey among students of grades 6-9 and school teachers on the topic: "The influence of weather conditions on health" 6. Prepare practical advice in case of a sharp change in weather
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“Nature does not have bad weather - Every weather is grace. Does it rain snow - any time of the year. We must accept it gratefully ... " research work I want to show how people's well-being is connected with the weather, more precisely, with its changes.
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Weather is the state of the troposphere in this place at this time. The type of weather is characterized by a combination of the same indicators of weather elements: temperature, pressure, humidity.
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In geography, the types of weather of the cold season are distinguished: thaw slightly frosty moderately frosty significantly frosty very frosty severely frosty warm season: cold cool moderately warm warm hot very hot extremely hot
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Also in Ancient Greece Hippocrates said that the weather affects a person. He regularly conducted meteorological observations and for the first time noted meteorological dependence - a seasonal alternation of exacerbations of various ailments.
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In recent years, more and more studies have appeared that clarify the effect of weather conditions on the well-being of people, on the course various diseases... Numerous studies on human health show that health depends on the combination and relationship between following factors: - lifestyles, - heredity, - the environment, - health care systems.
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human health is influenced by meteorological factors. These include temperature, air humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind strength and speed. A person is quite sensitive to changes in weather conditions. The pathological dependence of a health condition on weather conditions is called meteopathy.
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Consider how people react to changes in individual weather components. Air temperature is the degree to which the air is heated. It turns out that a person reacts to temperature, the more, the higher the humidity of the air. For the human body, conditions are considered optimal when the relative humidity of the air is about 60%, and the temperature is +240 C.
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Air humidity - it is determined by the presence of water vapor in it. The person feels good when relative humidity from 40 to 75%. A deviation from the norm responds in the body with a sensation of dryness or dampness. Air humidity affects the human body in combination with other meteorological factors, increasing their impact.
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Atmospheric pressure - as you know, this is the force with which the air presses on earth surface and the items on it. A person of average height is pressed by about 1 ton of air. But he does not feel this, since the internal pressure of the body opposes the pressure of the air. (For our age, normal pressure is considered to be from 110/60 to 120/80) Most people do not notice pressure fluctuations.
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With a sharp increase in atmospheric pressure, a difference arises between the pressure inside the body and the pressure of the surrounding air. In these cases, the person may feel headache, pain in the region of the heart and other organs, blood pressure rises, vascular crises and internal hemorrhages occur. Sharp fluctuations in atmospheric pressure cause exacerbation of sciatica, tinnitus appears. Migraine attacks of varying degrees are possible.
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Wind is the movement of air in a horizontal direction. The wind affects the thermoregulation system, and also has a mechanical effect. It promotes either the release of heat or its retention in the body. With a strong cold wind and sharp fluctuations in atmospheric pressure, blood pressure rises, which contributes to the occurrence of hypertensive crises and disruption cerebral circulation... Fluctuations in blood pressure in patients are also noted with a sudden change in the direction of the wind.
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Thus, in real conditions, the whole complex of weather factors acts on the human body. All types of body reactions to the action of meteorological factors are manifested in changes in indicators, both upward and downward.
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Observing weather conditions and their effect on human health and absence from classes due to illness After analyzing the weather calendar for March, I found out that the minimum air temperature was -2, and the maximum +5, therefore, the amplitude is 7 degrees. Atmospheric pressure varied from 740 to 758 mm Hg. 22 cloudy days were observed. These factors could well provoke a painful condition in students.
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