How To Stay Healthy In The Country?

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

With the words "dacha", "country life", "house in the suburbs", many people associate with excellent outdoor recreation, with barbecue and going to the bathhouse. However, gardeners and summer residents do not at all consider summer cottage work to be a rest, perfectly understanding how much they have to work on them to grow a beautiful garden, to take an excellent harvest from the beds. And very few people know how to work in the country in moderation, not to the detriment of their health

Possible physical overloads when working in the garden and in the garden and methods of their prevention

With heart disease. Summer heat, heat exert special pressure on workers who work in the beds under the hot midday sun. However, even the increased humidity in the air during the summer rains creates a special kind of load that doubles for people suffering from cardiovascular diseases.

For such people, doctors recommend working in the country only when the air humidity is no more than 60 percent.

With hypertension. Also, one cannot fail to say that intense physical activity, even in healthy people, can cause jumps in blood pressure, not to mention people of retirement age or not entirely healthy gardeners. After all, the favorite pose of the summer resident, over which wit do not get tired of laughing in anecdotes - standing, bending down to the ground and tilting his head low. This pose causes a rise in pressure. When the body is straightened, the pressure drops sharply. Since the summer resident does this, cultivating the beds, constantly, he causes by his actions the so-called orthostatic pressure surges, which in turn cause dizziness, spinning "flies" in front of the eyes, darkening in them.

For people suffering from hypertension, such summer cottage work and the position of the body during it are fraught with a hypertensive crisis. The best posture while working on the beds is sitting on a small bench, which would be convenient to move along the bed. Thus, you can weed, loosen the soil, plant seeds, plants in it, pick berries and other fruits. It will also be a good position if the summer resident begins to lay a soft mat under his knees and thus, sitting on his knees, move along the garden bed.

With varicose veins. People suffering from varicose veins can be advised the following - to put on before going out to the garden to work, compression knee-highs or tighten the veins in the legs with an elastic bandage. And for healthy people, if after working in the garden they feel lead heaviness, pain in the legs, severe fatigue - it is also advisable to do the same for the prevention of varicose veins.

Also, with a predisposition to varicose veins, and even more so in the presence of such a disease, you cannot stand in one position for a long time at summer cottages and you should not lift weights in the form of buckets of water and compost. For the prevention of varicose veins, swelling of the veins on the legs, from time to time, you need to give the body front - lie on the sofa and raise your legs up for 3-5 minutes, put a high pillow under them and lie down in this position. In hot weather, you need to pour cool water on your feet 2-3 times a day.

With osteochondrosis. Exacerbations during work in the garden or in the garden are inevitable with such a frequent illness in a summer resident as osteochondrosis. Muscle pain, muscle spasm, back pain, neck pain are just some of the symptoms of an exacerbation of this disease.

In order for the disease to make itself felt as rarely as possible, you should monitor the position of the back while working in the country. It should be as direct as possible. That is, you need to try to avoid bending to the ground, working in a bent state. Garden tools must be selected in such a way that they can be used while standing.

With severe osteochondrosis, diseases of the spine, it is recommended to work in the garden only in a special orthopedic corset, or at least you need to firmly tie the lower back with a rolled towel. And of course, in case of diseases of the musculoskeletal system, one should not lift and carry weights around the summer cottage. By the way, improper lifting of weights can cause back pain, pinching of a nerve, lumbar lumbago (lumbago), even in a healthy person. Therefore, one should learn to carry and lift weights in the correct position.

With the omission of internal organs. It happens that a person has problems with the prolapse of some internal organs - the kidneys, uterus in women, stomach, or there have been recent operations to remove various internal organs, their parts. In this case, lifting weights at the dacha of such a category of summer residents is strictly prohibited.

And finally, tipshow to properly lift heavy objects and how they should be carried from place to place:

-no need to lift a heavy one jerk;

- you do not need to tilt the body down to take the load, you should put it on the side of you, grab the handle of the load with your hand slightly squatting in your knees with a straight back and straighten your knees;

- you should not lift more than 5-6 pounds at a time;

-It is recommended not to carry weights in one hand, it is better to evenly distribute them in two hands;

- digging up the ground, you do not need to throw it from the shovel behind your back, it is better to do it to the side, without sharp turns of the body.