"Affected by the weather, it indicates that the meteorological risk of stroke is high, and the general public is advised to take precautions..." Under extreme weather, you may receive high temperature warnings, strong wind warnings, rainstorm warnings, and geological disaster meteorological risk warnings... But you Have you received the "Stroke Weather Risk Warning"? Can weather forecasts still "predict" disease?
"Affected by the weather, it indicates that the meteorological risk of stroke is high, and the general public is advised to take precautions..." Under extreme weather, you may receive high temperature warnings, strong wind warnings, rainstorm warnings, and geological disaster meteorological risk warnings... But you Have you received the "Stroke Weather Risk Warning"? Can weather forecasts still "predict" disease? Stroke
Meteorological Risk Warning
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"Often one person has a stroke, and the whole family is 'collapsed'," said Li Xin, vice president of the Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University. He has been researching cerebrovascular diseases for a long time, and he has been concerned about the possible serious consequences of stroke more than 10 years ago. As a result, it was decided to start with prevention, so that more families would be free from this dangerous disease.
Li Xin led the team to collect risk indicators affecting stroke for more than 10 years. Combined with a large number of case studies, it was found that the incidence of ischemic stroke will increase when the temperature rises by 2.1°C or more in summer and falls by more than 2.3°C in winter. The drastic change of weather is the main meteorological factor affecting the incidence of stroke, especially the sudden drop in temperature is more closely related to the incidence of stroke.
In February 2021, the "Tianjin Interdisciplinary Innovation Center for Health and Meteorology" was established, and experts from many fields such as medicine and meteorology participated. Beginning in November last year, the center has pushed "stroke meteorological risk warning" to Tianjin citizens. The warning is divided into three levels, namely level III (high risk), level II (high risk), and level I (high risk). , corresponding to yellow, orange and red respectively, and each level has corresponding medical information to remind the public how to take preventive measures.
Up to now, Tianjin's stroke weather risk warning has issued 1 orange warning and 3 yellow warnings through various channels such as WeChat, text messages, and broadcasting, with an audience of more than 4 million.
"Judging from the extreme weather such as high temperature and cold waves that have frequently occurred in recent years, climate change is not only an environmental problem, but also directly affects people's health." Han Suqin, director of the Tianjin Environmental Meteorological Center, said, "In addition to stroke meteorological risk warning In addition, we will gradually establish a health meteorological risk level forecast system for other diseases, and carry out scientific early warnings for various diseases, so that more people can 'prevent diseases before they occur'."
Learn to distinguish between stroke and
heat stroke. Most of the "heat strokes" are ischemic strokes. Dizziness is one of the early symptoms of stroke, and heat stroke also has this symptom. To determine whether dizziness is a precursor to stroke, you may as well use the following 5S method to identify, and you can operate it at home.
The first S: Strength.
Try to see if your arms and legs have strength, look in the mirror to see if your eyes are skewed, and whether one limb will twitch involuntarily.
The second S: Sense (feeling).
Feel for numbness or weakness in your arms, legs, face, especially your lips and tongue.
The third S: Swallow (swallow).
Swallow or drink a small amount of water to see if you have a cough or can't swallow.
Fourth S: Speak (speak).
Is it difficult to speak, always vague.
Fifth S: Seeing (seeing things).
See if there is a double image, if there is blackness in front of the eyes, if there is any blur.
If you have symptoms of dizziness, accompanied by one or more of the above 5S, the risk of stroke is relatively high, and you should go to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible.
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