Going to a country house, air conditioning and drinking clean water during a heat wave can save the lives of the elderly. This was told socialbites.ca by a geriatrician, neurologist, head of the gerontology department of MOIP at Moscow State University. MV Lomonosov Valery Novoselov.
High temperature causes extreme mortality, first of all among the elderly, the doctor said: they can account for more than 90% of deaths in heat. This is because their ability to adapt to extreme conditions is reduced.
“It’s important to monitor your exercise, your diet, and drink enough clean water. It is better not to drink carbonated drinks, juices, fruit drinks and other sugary drinks, because almost all elderly people have impaired blood sugar metabolism, and often there is prediabetes, ”Novoselov explained.
Air conditioning helps return to the physiological comfort zone in the heat: cooling the air can significantly reduce health risks. Novoselov emphasized that this is a vital thing for today. A trip to the cottage can also help: the temperature is usually lower in rural areas, especially in wooden houses, where you can do without air conditioning.
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According to geriatrician Novoselov, a number of deaths of Russian celebrities are associated with abnormal heat at the beginning of the month.
“Many world celebrities died in the period of intense heat from the 1st to the 10th of August, aged 70-90. It should be understood that these people died not from the heat, but from the sum of the factors. The weather just pushed them into the abyss. Old age is always a decline in vitality. The same load, for example, running in the heat behind a moving tram, can significantly increase the risk of heart attack in a 90-year-old person, and in a 20-year-old it has almost no effect, ”the gerontologist concluded.
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