Now, most citizens have returned to work after their holidays. In order to help office workers quickly return to their physical and mental positions and avoid the occurrence of "post holiday syndrome", experts suggest that citizens pay attention to a light diet, go to bed and wake up early, exercise more, and relax their psychology.
Spring Festival phenomenon
Excessive diet can lead to gastrointestinal diseases
During the Spring Festival, many citizens broke the normal daily routine of nine to five and three meals a day, exhibiting the "Spring Festival characteristics" of staying up late, getting up late, and binge eating. Sudden changes in life rhythm and improper diet can reduce the body's resistance and cause harm to the body.
Psychologists have introduced that there are two main types of patients during this year's Spring Festival. One is the working class who suffer from digestive system diseases due to excessive socializing, and the other is the elderly who suffer from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases due to cold weather. She particularly reminds working people that digestive system diseases are not all "pediatrics" such as diarrhea. Excessive and unreasonable diet can lead to serious diseases such as cholecystitis, gastric perforation, peritonitis, acute pancreatitis, and gastric bleeding, requiring hospitalization and even life-threatening treatment.
During the Spring Festival, we visited a patient with gastric perforation who usually had stomach problems. In addition, he ate a lot of greasy food, drank too much alcohol, and frequently played hot pot during the holiday, which ultimately led to the serious disease of gastric perforation. Jia Liuping, director of the Department of Gastroenterology at Nanhai District People's Hospital, told reporters that during the holiday, the weather was cold, and many citizens ate hot pot and soup at home, with a greasy diet that was influenced by traditional culture, Many citizens, especially elderly people, are unwilling to go to hospitals during the Spring Festival, accumulating minor illnesses into serious ones. As a result, after the seventh day of the lunar new year, many citizens come to hospitals with serious illnesses and minor illnesses for medical treatment. Jia Liuping suggests that citizens should have a correct attitude towards seeking medical treatment during the Chinese New Year. Being too cautious can actually affect their physical and mental health.
In addition, during an on-site investigation at Foshan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, duty nurse Xiao Guo said that patients and their families who visited the hospital during the Spring Festival were more anxious. She suggests that citizens should relax their mindset, 'Even if they go to see a doctor during the Chinese New Year, it's nothing.'.
Abnormal sleep patterns affect mental health
According to a psychological expert on seeking medical treatment website, changes in daily routines and dietary habits during the Spring Festival have two main impacts on mental health: mild individuals may experience common neurological symptoms, such as neurasthenia, fatigue, insomnia, dizziness, headaches, etc. These symptoms will disappear on their own after sufficient rest and normal diet; Severe cases can lead to long-standing symptoms such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder, and depression, requiring timely medical attention.
Psychological experts point out that due to the fact that people's attention to mental health is far less than that of physical health, some latent psychological diseases have not been discovered for a long time. Disorders in daily routines during the Spring Festival can exacerbate the symptoms of these diseases. He specifically listed the main symptoms of three common psychological disorders. If citizens still experience the following symptoms after a week of self-regulation, they need to seek formal medication and psychological counseling at the hospital: the first is obsessive-compulsive disorder, which mainly manifests as excessive and frequent habits such as washing hands and opening and closing doors. Even if these actions are not necessary, patients will persist in doing them and cannot get rid of them.
Secondly, there is anxiety disorder, where patients often feel flustered, and some chronic pain that cannot be identified through regular physical examinations may also be caused by anxiety disorder. Another issue is depression, where patients may experience low emotions, remain silent, avoid collective activities, and even experience suicidal emotions.
(Intern Editor: Chen Hao)