What to do with a headache with changes in atmospheric pressure.

The fact that the weather is in direct proportion to the magnitude of pressure earth's atmosphere, people noticed a few centuries ago. It is no coincidence that an aneroid barometer has been used for centuries to predict it. And, of course, they knew how the weather depends on atmospheric pressure.

Today, everyone knows that in areas of high atmospheric pressure, which are called anticyclones, the weather is better. That is, there is usually no precipitation in the anticyclone area, and the sun is shining. In a zone of low atmospheric pressure, called a cyclone, the weather is worse. In the cyclone area, it usually rains or snows, and the sun hides behind clouds or clouds.

That is, a decrease in atmospheric pressure is a harbinger of bad weather, and its increase indicates its possible improvement. "Possible" because the weather is affected by many factors and atmospheric pressure is only one of them.

Meteorological dependence: weather factors affecting well-being

The human body exists in constant interaction with the environment, therefore, all people, without exception, are characterized by meteosensitivity - the ability of the body (primarily the nervous system) to respond to changes in weather factors, such as atmospheric pressure, wind, solar radiation intensity, etc.

The main factor that is responsible for the weather on Earth is the Sun. Its rays warm the atmosphere, but do it unevenly. This happens, firstly, because the Earth rotates, and secondly, because the axis of its rotation is inclined to the plane of the orbit by 66 ° 33. This explains the presence of five climatic zones, and the change in seasonal temperatures, as well as fluctuations in night and daytime temperatures, notes Dr. Tatyana Lagutina in her book 200 Health Recipes for Weather-Sensitive People.

The amount of atmospheric pressure, the evaporation of water, and hence the humidity of the air, the amount of gases, and most importantly, the amount of atmospheric oxygen in the surface layer depend on how warm the surface of the earth and atmospheric air are in a particular region of our planet. Because the pressure atmospheric air in different areas of the Earth is never the same, the air is in constant motion, moving from areas of high pressure to areas low pressure. As a result of air movement, wind, cyclones, anticyclones are formed, clouds are formed, precipitation falls, that is, weather is created.

Sometimes huge, up to several thousand kilometers in diameter, vortices are observed in the atmosphere, which are called cyclones and anticyclones. During the passage of such eddies over a certain territory, stable weather is established, characteristic features which are deviations from the average seasonal indicators of atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity and atmospheric oxygen.
The cyclone brings with it a sharp change in the weather, increased wind, a decrease in atmospheric pressure, temperature, and an increase in humidity. There are bad weather, cold snap, cloudiness appears, depending on the season it rains or snows.

An anticyclone, on the contrary, leads to an increase in atmospheric pressure and a decrease in air humidity. The weather is clear, sunny, without precipitation, frosty in winter, hot in summer, winds blow from the center to the periphery.
Depending on the influence of a particular weather on a person's well-being, 5 types of weather conditions are distinguished.

Indifferent type - minor changes in the atmosphere that do not affect the state of health and well-being of a person.

Tonic type - the establishment of such weather conditions that favorably affect the well-being of a person. Such weather is especially good for the well-being of patients suffering from chronic oxygen deficiency, hypertension, ischemic disease heart, chronic bronchitis.

Spastic type - a sharp cold snap, accompanied by an increase in atmospheric pressure. Such weather, as a rule, leads to an increase in blood pressure, the occurrence of vasospasm, headaches and heart pain, and angina attacks.

Hypotensive type - a decrease in atmospheric pressure, which leads to a decrease in vascular tone, and consequently, to a decrease in blood pressure. On such days, hypertensive patients experience an improvement in well-being.

Hypoxic type - an increase in temperature and a decrease in the amount of atmospheric oxygen in the surface air layer. Such weather is especially unfavorable for patients with cardiovascular and respiratory insufficiency.

So, speaking about the influence of weather on human well-being, it is necessary to take into account many factors, which include temperature, humidity and air composition, pressure, wind speed, solar radiation fluxes, long-wave solar radiation, type and intensity of precipitation, atmospheric electricity, atmospheric radioactivity, subsonic noise.

Atmosphere pressure

Atmospheric pressure is the pressure exerted by an air column per unit area. Traditionally, it is measured in millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). A pressure of 1 atmosphere is considered normal, capable of balancing a column of mercury 760 mm high at a temperature of 0 ° C at sea level and a latitude of 45 °.

Depending on geographical conditions, time of year, day and various meteorological factors, the value of atmospheric, or barometric, pressure varies. So, if we do not take into account natural disasters, annual fluctuations in atmospheric pressure on the earth's surface do not exceed 30 mm, and daily fluctuations - 4-5 mm.

The role of atmospheric pressure in the formation of weather is very large. It is responsible for the strength and direction of the wind, the frequency and amount of precipitation and temperature fluctuations. So, a decrease in pressure is followed by cloudy, rainy weather, an increase - dry, with a strong cooling in winter.

A sharp change in atmospheric pressure causes drops in blood pressure, fluctuations in the electrical resistance of the skin, as well as an increase or decrease in the number of leukocytes in the blood. Thus, at low atmospheric pressure electrical resistance skin significantly exceeds the norm, the number of leukocytes increases, the pressure in the stomach and intestines increases, which leads to a high standing of the diaphragm. As a result, activity is disrupted gastrointestinal tract, the work of the heart and lungs is difficult.

As a rule, atmospheric pressure drops that do not go beyond the norm do not affect the well-being of healthy people. The situation is different with sick or overly emotional natures. With a decrease in atmospheric pressure, for example, in people suffering from rheumatism, pain in the joints worsens, in hypertensive patients the state of health worsens, doctors note a sharp jump in angina attacks. People with increased nervous excitability with sharp jumps in atmospheric pressure complain of a feeling of fear, insomnia and a deterioration in mood.

Air temperature

Air temperature is responsible for the heat exchange processes occurring between the human body and the environment. Temperature effects are perceived by a person as a sensation of heat or cold. Moreover, from this point of view, it is associated not only with solar energy and its intensity, but also with wind speed and air humidity. Comfortable conditions for a healthy person, that is, when he does not experience heat, cold, or stuffiness, depend on climate zone his residence, time of year, socio-economic conditions and age and cannot be determined unambiguously.

Moreover, the well-being of a person is affected not so much by temperature indicators as by its day-to-day fluctuations. So, a slight change in temperature is a deviation from the average daily norm by 1–2 °C, a moderate one by 3–4 °C and a sharp one by more than 4 °C. It is generally accepted that the optimal conditions for a person are those under which he feels an air temperature of 16–18 ° C at a relative humidity of 50%.

The most dangerous for people are sudden changes in temperature, as they are usually fraught with outbreaks of acute respiratory infectious diseases. Science knows such a fact, when during one night the temperature rose from -44 ° C to +6 ° C, which occurred in St. Petersburg in January 1780, 40 thousand inhabitants fell ill in the city.

Fastest to swing air temperature human vessels react, which, narrowing or expanding, carry out thermoregulation and maintain a constant body temperature. With prolonged exposure to low temperatures, excessive vasospasm often occurs, which, in turn, in people suffering from hypertension or hypotension, as well as coronary heart disease, can cause severe headaches, pain in the heart area, and blood pressure jumps.

High temperature also negatively affects the work of the human body. Its detrimental effect is manifested in a decrease in blood pressure, dehydration of the body, and a deterioration in the blood supply to many organs.

Air humidity

The same air temperature with different indicators of its humidity is perceived by a person in different ways. So, with high humidity, which prevents the evaporation of moisture from the surface of the body, heat is difficult to tolerate and the effect of cold intensifies. Besides, wet air several times increases the risk of infections transmitted by airborne droplets.
Insufficient moisture leads to intense sweating, as a result of which acceptable standards a person can lose up to 2-3% of his mass. Excreted from the body with sweat a large number of mineral salts. Therefore, their stock in hot and dry weather must be constantly replenished with salted sparkling water. Profuse sweating dries up the mucous membranes. As a result, they are covered with the smallest cracks, into which pathogenic microorganisms penetrate.

In practice, to determine the humidity of the air, it is customary to use the term " relative humidity". This attitude absolute humidity(the amount of water vapor in grams contained in 1 m3 of air) to the maximum humidity (the amount of water vapor in grams required to saturate 1 m3 of air at the same temperature). Relative humidity is expressed as a percentage and determines the degree of saturation of the air with water vapor at the time of observation.

The optimal indicator of relative air humidity for a healthy person is 45–65%.

People suffering from hypertension and atherosclerosis are especially difficult to endure days characterized by high humidity (80-95%). In rainy and inclement weather, the approach of an attack in such patients can be determined by the pallor that appears on their face.

High humidity, which heralds the approach of a cyclone, is usually accompanied by a sharp decrease in oxygen in the air. Lack of oxygen worsens the well-being of patients with chronic diseases of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, as well as the musculoskeletal system.

Healthy people, although to a lesser extent, also experience oxygen deficiency, which can manifest itself in them in the form of increased fatigue, drowsiness, weakness, etc.

Especially dangerous high humidity combined with high temperatures. Such a meteorological combination makes it difficult to transfer heat and can cause heat stroke and other disorders of the body.

Wind direction and speed

Wind, or air movement, along with temperature and humidity, affects the heat exchange that occurs between a person and the environment. In hot weather, the wind increases the release of heat, having a beneficial effect on well-being, and at low temperatures, it enhances the effect of cold, leading to a cooling of the body. So, with an increase in wind speed by 1 m / s, a person perceives the air temperature 2 ° C lower.

In summer, we feel good at wind speeds of 1–4 m/s, but already 6–7 m/s bring us into a state of mild irritability and anxiety.

However, wind speed is not the decisive factor in the impact on the human body. From this point of view, it is necessary to take into account all the sudden changes that, as a rule, accompany the movement of air masses: pressure, temperature, humidity, electric potential. That is why, along with classical definitions temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind strength and direction, modern meteorologists have put forward another concept - "air mass". This is a certain volume of air that has the same physical and chemical properties. The air mass can spread over hundreds of kilometers and be over 1,000 meters thick. It forms at the equator or the poles, where, unlike at other latitudes, the atmosphere is relatively calm.

For a long time it remains motionless, acquiring the peculiarities of the climate of the place of its origin. Then the air mass begins to move, setting the weather that it absorbed in the process of formation and which is fundamentally different from the meteorological conditions of the territories along its path.

When 2 air masses collide, they do not overlap each other, although more light warm air and tends to rise. Their dividing line forms an acute angle with the soil. In meteorology, this line is called a front, and the displacement of one air mass by another is called the passage of a front, which brings a change in the weather.

The confrontation between two air masses, preceding the victory of one of them, lasts about a day. Weather-sensitive people are able to pick up the very first signs of an impending collision between two air masses, which explains their ability to predict the weather.

Healthy people practically do not feel the passage of the air front. However, this does not mean that it does not have any effect on the biological processes occurring in their body. Doctors have established that at this time, for example, the properties of blood change. Shortly before the collision of two air masses, the rate of blood clotting increases, and when a cold front passes, blood clots dissolve faster. The air mass of tropical origin affects the amount of urine excreted, the activity of the endocrine glands, the content of sugar, calcium, phosphates, sodium and magnesium in the blood.

Windy days exacerbate chronic diseases, especially if they affect the cardiovascular and respiratory systems. For people with a nervous or mental pathology, such weather can cause a feeling of anxiety, unreasonable longing and anxiety.

The establishment of certain meteorological conditions also affects chemical composition air. Its main component, without which most biological processes are impossible, is oxygen. In the atmosphere, its content is 21%, although this figure may vary depending on geographical conditions. Yes, in countryside the oxygen content, as a rule, exceeds 21.6%, in the city it is approximately 20.5%, and in large metropolitan areas it is even lower - 17–18%. However, under adverse weather conditions, the amount of oxygen in the air can drop to 12%.

A healthy person practically does not feel the decrease in the oxygen content in the air to 16–18%. signs oxygen deficiency(hypoxia) appear in most cases when the oxygen content drops to a level of 14%, and the figure of 9% threatens with serious disturbances in the functioning of vital organs.

The decrease in the amount of atmospheric oxygen, and, consequently, its entry into the body, is largely facilitated by increased air humidity, accompanied by high temperature. To compensate for the lack of oxygen in such conditions, a person has to breathe more often.

Lack of oxygen leads to a slowdown in metabolic processes, even practically healthy people complain of weakness, fatigue, distracted attention, headache, depression.

sunlight

Many people are well aware of the state of depression, bordering on depressive, which they experience in a rainy autumn or the same rainy winter, when the sun hides behind clouds for several days. The reason for this mood should be sought not in bad weather, but primarily in the lack of light.

Interestingly, it is impossible to deceive the body with the help of artificial lighting on such days. Even if you spend the whole day in a room with a large number of lamps on, the body will still recognize the substitution, since the spectral composition of sunlight and artificial lighting is significantly different.

A person's eyes are part of his brain, which needs a stream of light impulses in order to work quickly and productively. Receptors of the retina, reacting to a light stimulus, send signals to the central nervous system - to the hypothalamus. He, in turn, with the help of the mechanism of hormonal and nervous regulation, carries out seasonal restructuring and adaptation of the body to changing meteorological conditions. However, during this transitional period, the body is most vulnerable and painfully reacts to any "abnormal" action of various environmental factors.

A large role in the synchronization of biological rhythms depending on the illumination is assigned to the pineal gland - the pineal gland located in the brain. With its help, even blind people at the level of biorhythms are able to feel the change of day and night. In addition, the pineal gland produces many biologically active substances that are involved in the regulation of immunity, puberty and fading (menopause), menstrual function, water-salt metabolism, pigmentation processes, aging of the body, as well as in the synchronization of sleep and wakefulness cycles. There is reason to believe that the influence of unfavorable meteorological conditions on the pineal gland explains the causes of meteopathy and desynchronosis (violation of the physical and mental functions of the human body under the influence of changes in its daily rhythms).

Magnetic storms

Magnetic storms are strong disturbances magnetic field Earth under the influence of enhanced solar plasma flows. They occur quite often, 2-4 times a month, and last for several days.

A calm geomagnetic environment has practically no effect on a person's well-being. But on magnetic storms respond from 50 to 75% of the world's population. Moreover, the beginning of such a reaction depends on each specific person and the nature of the storm itself. Thus, most people begin to experience various kinds of ailments 1–2 days before a magnetic storm, which corresponds to the moment of solar flares that caused it.

Scientists have established another curious fact. Almost half of the inhabitants of our planet are able to adapt to magnetic storms that follow one after another with an interval of 6-7 days, and practically stop noticing them.
Electromagnetic fluctuations that occur in the process of changing the geomagnetic background, combined with low-frequency sound vibrations that occur during the passage of cyclones, disrupt biorhythms. And most of all, this violation concerns mid-frequency biorhythms, close to them in frequency. This phenomenon is called forced synchronization, which causes a deterioration in human well-being.

Manifestations of forced synchronization can be very different: jumps in blood pressure, cardiac arrhythmia, difficulty breathing, etc. Moreover, serious health problems occur in people suffering from chronic diseases of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems.

Receptors located on the walls of large blood vessels pick up electromagnetic vibrations and disrupt the functioning of the vascular system. A spasm of blood vessels develops, the movement of blood in small vessels slows down, the blood thickens and there is a risk of blood clots, the blood supply to vital organs is disrupted, and the amount of stress hormones in the blood increases. This explains the fact that during the days of magnetic storms the number of heart attacks and strokes, sudden deaths increases sharply.

No less than the vascular system, during the period of geomagnetic disturbance, the pineal gland, one of the main regulators and synchronizers of human biorhythms, suffers.
AT recent times the media often publish long-term forecasts of unfavorable days for a week, a month, or even a year. This is just a tribute to fashion, which has nothing to do with science. According to the Center for Predictions of the Geomagnetic Situation of the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism and Radio Wave Propagation Russian Academy Sciences, a magnetic storm on Earth can be predicted only 2-3 days in advance, not earlier.

Manifestations of meteosensitivity

The dependence of the human body on the weather is so great that along with the term “meteosensitivity”, which characterizes mild symptoms of malaise that occur under the influence of environmental factors, doctors introduced another one - “meteorological dependence” to refer to a more severe condition caused by sharp fluctuations in weather conditions.

Meteorological dependence, or meteopathy, the main signs of which are a sharp deterioration in well-being and unmotivated mood swings, affects from 8 to 35% of the inhabitants of our planet.

It is not yet possible to determine a more accurate figure, since scientists have not yet established criteria that would distinguish the body's normal response to weather changes from pathological ones.

In the very general view we can say that meteorological dependence manifests itself as severe headaches, insomnia or, conversely, increased drowsiness, weakness, which leads to fatigue, mood changes. People suffering from cardiovascular diseases may experience a sharp increase in blood pressure, and in more severe cases, pain in the heart area. With a sharp change in the weather, many chronic diseases and previous injuries are exacerbated.

To indicate the reaction of the human body to meteorological changes environment doctors use another term - "meteoneurosis", by which they define a type of neurotic disorder associated with weather changes. Meteoneurotics on unfavorable days experience a sharp deterioration in well-being: irritability, depression, shortness of breath, palpitations, dizziness, etc. are observed. However, if you measure their temperature, pressure and other indicators, they will be in absolute norm. As a rule, meteoneurosis is observed in people with increased emotionality, or is an external manifestation of internal mental failures.

What happens in the body when the weather changes

The human body responds to any change in weather with rapid changes in hormone production, platelet count in the blood, blood clotting, and enzyme activity. This is nothing more than a protective reaction of the body, with the help of which it adapts to new meteorological conditions and which practically does not affect the well-being of a healthy person.

However, more than half of the inhabitants of the Earth "feel" the weather. Such meteorological sensitivity is explained by the fact that the body of these people is already in a state of pre-illness, which prevents the launch of the adaptation mechanism. Moreover, overweight, endocrine disorders during puberty, pregnancy and menopause, head injuries, flu, tonsillitis, pneumonia, and chronic fatigue contribute to increased weather sensitivity.

How does the body react to each specific change in the weather?

With a sharp drop in air temperature, even healthy people feel some discomfort. Their skin becomes covered with small pimples, increased tension and trembling are observed in the muscles, skin vessels narrow, and cold diuresis (frequent urination) often begins. All these are manifestations of the “regular” reaction of the body, which, having tuned in to heat, again finds itself in the cold.
If the weather does not change in the near future and the unseasonable cold sets in for a long time, a decrease in immunity may occur. As a result, there is a sharp increase in the number of acute respiratory diseases and exacerbation of chronic ones - bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis, tonsillitis, sinusitis.

At a consistently high temperature, sweating increases, the heartbeat and breathing become more frequent, and the amount of urine excreted decreases. In addition, along with sweat and exhaled air, a large amount of water-soluble vitamins and mineral salts (sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium) is excreted from the body. The consequence of this, even in healthy people, is weakness, headache, apathy, drowsiness, and intense thirst.

Until now, scientists are not ready to describe in detail the process of the impact of meteorological factors on the human body. One of the most likely assumptions today is a sharp change in blood volumes in the systemic and pulmonary circulation.

In a small circle (heart - lungs), venous blood flows from the heart to the lungs. In the capillaries of the pulmonary vasculature, which permeate everything, even the smallest, bronchi, it is enriched with oxygen and returns to the heart again.
In a large circle, oxygenated blood flows through all vessels, including the smallest capillaries, oxygenates all muscles and tissues, and then returns to the heart and lungs.

With an increase in atmospheric pressure, the pressure in the pulmonary vessels increases, and blood is forced out of the small circle into the large one. With a decrease, on the contrary, blood rushes into the small circle, which means that it becomes less in the large circle.
Thus, both an increase and a decrease in atmospheric pressure lead to the same result - an imbalance in the body.

Manifestations of meteosensitivity in various diseases

If healthy people react to weather changes in almost the same way or do not react at all, then people with chronic diseases have their own set of symptoms corresponding to sudden changes in temperature, pressure, oxygen content in the air, etc. Moreover, such a “barometer”, depending on specific disease as the main one will be guided by different parameters.

Diseases of the cardiovascular system

The well-being of people suffering from cardiovascular diseases, as a rule, begins to deteriorate rapidly a few hours before a sharp change in temperature and atmospheric pressure. Moreover, an attack of angina pectoris can be caused even by a change in the direction of the wind. During a magnetic storm, blood pressure rises in the cores and coronary circulation is disturbed, which often leads to a hypertensive crisis, stroke and myocardial infarction. However, the most unfavorable factor for this category of patients is high humidity. And on the eve of a thunderstorm, doctors register an increase in cases of sudden death.

Hypertensive patients react most acutely to changes in the weather in spring. In summer, it is difficult for them to endure windless heat, but in winter and autumn, their body is more tolerant of changes in meteorological indicators. Typical manifestations meteotropic reactions in people with hypertension: jumps in blood pressure, headache, tinnitus.

Both hypertensive patients and hypotensive patients equally painfully perceive sudden changes in atmospheric pressure.

Respiratory diseases

Patients suffering from respiratory diseases (especially chronic bronchitis and bronchial asthma) are the worst sharp decline air temperature, strong wind and relative humidity over 70%. In addition, this category of patients reacts heavily to changes in atmospheric pressure, and it does not matter whether it rises or falls, and to a low oxygen content in the air. The response to such meteorological "aggression", as a rule, is general weakness, shortness of breath, coughing, and in especially severe cases - suffocation.

Magnetic storms have the same adverse effect, changing biological rhythms. Moreover, some patients feel their approach, and their health worsens on the eve of a magnetic storm, while the body of others reacts to it after. Doctors state with regret the fact that the possibility of adaptation of patients with chronic diseases of the respiratory system to the conditions of magnetic storms is practically zero.

Joint diseases

Although there are many examples of joint pain and aches, especially in cold and wet weather, the mechanism that causes these symptoms is still not understood.

Currently, scientists are inclined to believe that the most typical sign of the influence of weather on the health of people suffering from diseases of the joints and the musculoskeletal system is atmospheric pressure, which, of course, is also influenced by the surrounding air. A decrease in atmospheric pressure on the eve of a thunderstorm can provoke swelling of the periarticular tissue, which, in turn, causes pain in the joints.

Diseases of the nervous system

It has already been mentioned above that sharp fluctuations in meteorological parameters primarily have a detrimental effect on the work of adaptation mechanisms, knocking down biological rhythms. And if in a healthy body the distortion of biorhythms leads only to a subtle change in well-being that does not affect the general state of health, then with existing disorders of the autonomic nervous system, a person can feel very bad. The number of people with problems of the autonomic nervous system has been steadily growing recently, and this is mainly due to the action of adverse factors of modern civilization: stress, haste, physical inactivity, overeating or, conversely, malnutrition, and many others.

Different reactions to the weather, when, for example, diametrically opposite medical indicators can be observed in people with the same disease under the same meteorological conditions, are explained by the unequal functional state of their nervous system. Pronounced meteosensitivity is noted in people with a weak (melancholic) and strong unbalanced (choleric) type of nervous system. But sanguine people, who have a strong balanced type of nervous system, begin to feel the weather only when the body is weakened.

A special category of people who react painfully to the weather are the so-called meteoneurotics, in whom, in the absence of chronic diseases, their mood is directly dependent on the state of the weather. Doctors have found that the cause of bad mood, unmotivated fatigue, apathy, etc., caused by certain meteorological indicators, should be sought in childhood memories. If the parents of the child, who for him, undoubtedly, were an indisputable authority, often quarreled in rainy weather or, on the contrary, looked tired and broken, then a logical chain formed in the baby’s head: it’s raining outside - people are angry and unfriendly in the rain - such a day can bring nothing good.

Meteoneurosis can also be congenital. People with this type of meteoneurosis have a genetic need for a certain amount of sunlight and heat.
Traditionally, solar warm weather- it's good. However, there are meteoneurotics who can hardly endure such grace and look forward to the onset of rainy cloudy weather that lifts their spirits. And the point here is not in physiology, but in personality traits. That is why it is not doctors who help to get rid of meteoneurosis, but psychologists, who, of course, need the help of the patient himself, who has firmly decided to get rid of the dependence of his mood on the vagaries of the weather.

mental illness

Especially hard people suffering from mental illness endure magnetic storms and windy weather. In addition, their condition can deteriorate significantly before a thunderstorm or snowfall. Aggravation of the depressive state is observed at abnormally high temperatures in winter, which are the reason for the establishment of cloudy and slushy weather, as well as with a long absence of the sun in summer.

With sudden changes in the weather or prolonged exposure to anomalous meteorological factors, the human body works to the limit of its capabilities, but it should be remembered that this in no way causes serious mental disorders. Depression, suicidal ideation and exacerbation of mental illness occur for a variety of other reasons (physiological, psychological and social), and meteorological factors play only the role of a catalyst.

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Dependence on the weather: how to survive?

Hostile whirlwinds blow over us and change - either atmospheric pressure, then humidity, then the concentration of oxygen in the air, then some other vital indicator. Because of this, people have headaches, cramps, rumbling in the stomach, can’t sleep, and in general ... Every year more and more Russians fall into the category of “weather-dependent”. Why? And what to do with it?

We immediately inform you that there is no official diagnosis of “meteorological dependence”. Rather, this is the average value of three conditions - weather sensitivity (when a person is subject to weather fluctuations to a slight degree), meteorological dependence itself (when a change in weather causes a noticeable deterioration in well-being) and meteopathy - a severe dependence on weather phenomena, forcing a person to take medicine or see a doctor. It is generally accepted that the more chronic diseases a person has and the weaker the immune system, the stronger the reaction to the weather. However, not all doctors agree with this ...

Most researchers argue that of all the races living on the planet, Caucasians suffer the most from weather dependence. Especially those living in temperate continental climatic zones- in the center of Europe, in the European part of Russia and Central Siberia. In about 10% of cases, meteorological dependence is inherited (more often through the maternal line), in 40% it is the result of vascular diseases, and in the remaining half, doctors include health problems that have accumulated over a lifetime - from birth trauma to obesity and stomach ulcers ...

Meteorological dependence in children is almost always a consequence of severe pregnancy, prematurity or postmaturity, or difficult childbirth. Alas, most often the ailments received in this period remain with a person for life.

The most insidious diseases that can lead to meteorological dependence throughout life are chronic respiratory diseases (tonsillitis, tonsillitis, recurrent pneumonia), atherosclerosis, autoimmune diseases (for example, diabetes mellitus), hypotension and hypertension.

It is interesting that people with different ailments react differently to various changes in the weather - and it often happens that, for example, for some, the bright sun is a holiday and a feeling of a surge of strength, while for others it is an occasion to urgently drink painkillers and go to bed ...

High atmospheric pressure This means - rising above 755 mmHg. Information about the current atmospheric pressure can always be obtained from the weather forecast. Who does it badly if the column rises above the mark of 750 - 755 mm? Firstly, asthmatics and people with mental disabilities who are prone to violent manifestations. Asthmatics sharply lack oxygen, and in the second category, anxiety increases sharply. The "cores" do not feel well either, especially those diagnosed with angina pectoris. But hypotension and hypertension increased absolute pressure tolerated relatively normally - however, only if it reached its indicators gradually, and did not jump by 20 mm within a few hours. And most importantly - then it did not fall sharply ...

How to improve your condition during such a period? First, avoid physical activity - sport requires a lot of oxygen supply. Secondly, accessible way dilate blood vessels and thin the blood - with the help of medicines, hot black tea or, if there are no contraindications, a serving of alcohol (cognac or red wine).

Low atmospheric pressure Also not a gift ... Absolute atmospheric pressure below 748 mmHg brings with it much more problems. Firstly, it becomes very bad for hypotensive patients - they have no strength, they are drawn to sleep, feel sick, dizzy. Hypertensive patients are not much better - they begin to knock in the temples, the headache intensifies. People with heart rhythm disturbances - tachycardia, bradycardia, arrhythmia also have a hard time.

However, the main problem of low atmospheric pressure is a strong deterioration in well-being in people with a tendency to depression and suicide.

However, doctors say that it is easier to neutralize the effects of low pressure than high pressure: you just need to provide yourself with fresh air (no time or energy to walk - open the window) and long sleep, and preferably also daytime. The ideal time for a siesta in winter is from 10 to 12 noon, in summer - from 14 to 16 hours. It is important that you wake up at least three hours before dusk.

You can correct your well-being with the help of nutrition - eat something moderately salty, for example, a piece of herring or a salted tomato. This will have a good effect on the ionic balance in the body.

Snowfall In fact, snowfall snowfall is different. We will consider the classic one - when snow flakes fall in almost calm weather. For 70% of people, this weather does not bring anything bad. But for those who suffer from vegetovascular dystonia, snowfall can be a very unpleasant period: improperly functioning brain vessels can respond to the weather with dizziness, a feeling of stupor, and even nausea.

To prevent this from happening, at the very beginning of the snowfall, take the usual vascular preparations, as well as means to increase tone - ginseng tincture, succinic acid or eleutherococcus extract.

storm front This is perhaps the most unpleasant weather phenomenon in terms of well-being. Moreover, according to statistics, the legendary "thunderstorm in early May" is the most dangerous. An abnormal electromagnetic field, which always precedes a thunderstorm, can affect people with an unstable psyche so strongly that it can provoke a relapse of manic-depressive psychosis. It is hard on the eve of a thunderstorm for ladies of menopausal age - they are exhausted by "hot flashes", sweating and hysterical mood.

Avoiding the effects of thunderstorms is almost impossible. The only thing that can really ease the tension a little is the opportunity to hide somewhere underground. So, if you have a suitable underground restaurant or mall nearby - welcome!

Heat Heat tolerance is directly related to wind strength and relative humidity. The windier and wetter, the harder it is. It is generally accepted that the average Russian begins to feel discomfort if the air temperature exceeds 27 C and the relative humidity is 80%. The exception is coastal regions, where the heat is more easily tolerated. Worst of all, at high air temperatures, people with autoimmune diseases, metabolic disorders, and those who have suffered a traumatic brain injury feel the worst.

There are only two ways to defeat the heat - drink a lot of water (preferably mixed with pomegranate or apple juice) and take a cool shower as often as possible - not so much for hygiene reasons, but to activate the nerve receptors of the skin responsible for thermoregulation.

Cold snap Doctors believe that a decrease in air temperature by more than 12 degrees Celsius within 12 hours is not capable of in the best way affect a person's well-being. At the same time, it is no less important in which particular range this cooling occurred: if, for example, the temperature dropped from +32 to +20 C, then nothing particularly bad will happen. But if the spread of readings is about 0 C or in a sharp "minus", then problems cannot be avoided.

Worst of all, such weather affects people with diseases of the vessels of the brain and heart, as well as those who have had a heart attack and stroke.

Wind A strong wind, as a rule, accompanies the movement of air masses of different densities. Surprisingly, adult men hardly react to it, but women have a hard time - especially those prone to migraines. Children also react badly to the wind, especially babies under 3 years old. By the way, for some people the wind brings a significant improvement in well-being - in particular, it becomes much easier for asthmatics to breathe.

If you can't stand the wind, take note of the old folk recipe: mix honey, lemon and nut butter in equal proportions and take a tablespoon several times during a windy day.

Calm It may seem strange, but completely calm weather can also be a source of problems! Complete calm causes anxiety in people suffering from schizophrenia, as well as in adolescents and people 45-60 years old: due to age-related hormonal fluctuations.

Doctors cannot accurately explain the cause of the problems, and so far they are of the opinion that it is associated with the lack of mixing of air layers, which is why the concentration of pollution reaches a maximum at a height of 1-1.5 m above the ground.

If they are right, then you can alleviate the condition in an air-conditioned room or just near a fan.

Doctor's opinion Marina Vakulenko, therapist:

Half a century ago, such a thing as "meteorological dependence" in relation to the entire population did not exist. Experienced doctors, for example, knew that during a period of low pressure, the well-being of newly operated patients and women in childbirth may worsen, and during the bright sun and severe frost, one should expect an influx of so-called “violent” mentally unhealthy people. But mass weather dependence was not considered. Even now, doctors of the classical school believe that, at least in half of the cases, “meteorological dependence” is the result of meteoneurosis, when a person who has heard something about “magnetic storms” and the like, after reading another forecast, begins to wind himself up.

Normal atmospheric pressure varies from 750 to 760 mm Hg. Art. For a year it can change by 30 mm, and for a day - 1-3 mm. Many people complain that they feel worse when the weather changes, calling themselves weather dependent. Also, similar symptoms occur in people with hypertension and hypotension.

Blood pressure shows how intensely blood is pushed out of the heart and how vascular resistance occurs. Mainly influenced by changes in anticyclones or cyclones. Symptoms vary depending on whether the person has high or low blood pressure.

Hypotensive patients usually suffer from low atmospheric pressure, but this does not affect hypertensive patients so much. But if the high temperature is accompanied by high humidity, the state of health often worsens and the pressure rises. This is the reason why it is harmful for hypertensive patients to play sports in the heat.

When climbing a mountain or immersing in water, the effect of atmospheric pressure on blood pressure is noticeable. Climbing to altitude often requires an oxygen mask. Symptoms such as respiratory pathology, nosebleeds, and rapid heartbeat are observed.

People who suffer from high blood pressure often faint because of this. During immersion in water, an increase in atmospheric pressure occurs, which can also harm hypertensive patients.

It is necessary to dive to depth through locks in which the pressure changes slowly. At high atmospheric pressure, the gases that are present in the air dissolve in the blood, which is called "saturation". Decompression provokes their exit from the blood. The process is called "desaturation".

When lowering under the ground or water in violation of the sluice mode, a supersaturation with nitrogen will occur. This can lead to decompression sickness. It consists in the penetration of gas bubbles into the vessels, which lead to the appearance of embolism in large quantities.

This problem is expressed in painful sensations in the joints and muscles. In the advanced stages, the eardrums burst, dizziness appears, and labyrinthine nystagmus develops. The disease can lead to death.

A cyclone appears due to warm air and water evaporating from the ocean. The weather changes, becomes warmer, there are rains, high humidity. The amount of oxygen in the air decreases and carbon dioxide increases. The cyclone has a bad effect on people with diseases of the heart and blood vessels. It is expressed as a decrease in atmospheric pressure.

The anticyclone is expressed in clear, dry weather without wind. The air is standing, there are no clouds. This can take up to 5 days. If the duration exceeds 14 days, fires often start during the warm season due to abnormal heat and drought. An anticyclone is expressed by increased atmospheric pressure.

If atmospheric pressure exceeds 760 mm Hg. Art. , there is no wind and precipitation - an anticyclone is coming. At this time, there are no sudden temperature jumps, harmful impurities in the air increase.

This weather has a negative impact on patients suffering from high blood pressure. The ability to work decreases, throbbing pains in the head are observed, the heart hurts.

You can also see symptoms such as:

1. Tachycardia;
2. General deterioration of well-being;
3. Tinnitus;
4. The area of ​​the face is covered with red spots;
5. Blurred eyes.

The anticyclone has a particularly bad effect on pensioners suffering from diseases of the cardiovascular system of a chronic nature. The risk of a crisis increases, especially with indicators of 220120 mm Hg. Art. It can also lead to coma, thrombosis, embolism.

Cyclone also provides Negative influence at elevated pressure. Outside the window there is increased humidity, rain, cloudy weather. The air pressure drops to less than 750 mmHg.

Often, hypertensive patients take medications, so low atmospheric pressure can cause the following symptoms:

• General deterioration of well-being;
• Headache;
• Dizziness;
• Drowsiness;
• Deterioration of the digestive tract.

With an anticyclone, hypertensive patients should not go in for sports, pay more attention to rest. Eat better low-calorie foods, eat more fruits. If there is heat during the anticyclone, physical exercise should definitely be excluded. You need to make sure that the air conditioner is working in the room.

With a cyclone, you need to drink plenty of fluids, herbal decoctions. You need to sleep well, on awakening you can drink coffee or tea. You need to check the pressure readings on the tonometer several times during the day.

The anticyclone has a negative effect on hypertensive patients, but hypotensive patients sometimes suffer from unpleasant symptoms. This can be explained by the adaptive properties of the organism. If hypotension patients have at least a slight increase in pressure (even if this indicator is normal for ordinary people), they tolerate it very badly.

The cyclone is bad for the health of hypotensive patients. They show symptoms such as:

• Slowing down the speed of blood flow;
• Deterioration of blood supply to tissues and organs;
• Pressure drop;
• Weakened pulse;
• respiratory pathology;
• Dizziness;
• Weakness;
• Drowsiness;
• Nausea;
• Spasmodic head pain;
• The heart rate becomes faster.

Complications from the influence of a cyclone are a hypotonic crisis and coma.

To improve well-being, you need to raise blood pressure. A sound sleep will help with this, when you wake up, you can drink a drink with caffeine, take a contrast shower. During the negative effects of the cyclone and anticyclone, you need to drink more water, you can use ginseng tincture. Hypotension patients are very well influenced by hardening procedures.

A negative reaction to weather changes manifests itself in three stages:

1. Weather sensitivity - the appearance of weakness, which is not confirmed by medical research.
2. Meteorological dependence. Symptoms: decrease or increase in blood pressure and heart rate.
3. Meteopathy is the most difficult stage.
4. Meteopathy is a negative reaction of the body to changes in weather conditions. Negative reactions begin from a slight deterioration in well-being and end with severe pathologies of the myocardium, causing tissue damage.

The duration of symptoms and their intensity depend on weight, age, chronic diseases. Sometimes they can last a week. Meteopathy affects 70% of patients with chronic diseases and 30% of ordinary people.

If hypertension is combined with meteorological dependence, ailments can be affected not only by changes in atmospheric pressure, but also by other environmental changes. Such people need to be especially attentive to weather forecasts.

If atmospheric pressure is not kept very high - 750 - 740 mm, its uneven decrease is observed: sometimes faster, sometimes slower; sometimes there may even be a short-term slight increase followed by a fall - this indicates the passage of a cyclone. A common misconception is that a cyclone always brings bad weather with it. In fact, the weather in a cyclone is very heterogeneous - sometimes the sky remains absolutely cloudless and the cyclone leaves without shedding a single drop of rain. More significant is not the very fact of low pressure, but its gradual fall. Low atmospheric pressure in itself is not yet a sign of bad weather.

If the pressure drops very quickly to 740 or even 730 mm, this promises a short but violent storm, which will continue for some time even with an increase in pressure. The faster the pressure drops, the longer the unsettled weather will last; a prolonged storm is possible.

At what atmospheric pressure does it rain?

In Moscow, for example, rains are far from uncommon, but the atmospheric pressure of 760 mm during rain is, I think, an absolutely incredible event! 760 mm for Moscow is significantly higher than the norm, this (and more) happens mainly in winter, during an anticyclone, and in winter it still rains rarely. And not during anticyclones, but vice versa - when a cyclone comes with a correspondingly lower pressure. Our barometer (bought in Kharkov in the mid-70s) usually shows mm. The minimum was 717 mm, the maximum mm. This is what I have noted.

Before the rain, a zone of low atmospheric pressure is formed (warm air is replaced by cold air saturated with water molecules).

Rainfall falls at a pressure below 760 mmHg, on our barometer I noticed the values ​​indicated by the arrow - 755,750,745 mmHg.

It usually rains at a pressure of 760 millimeters of mercury and below. The lower the atmospheric pressure, the heavier the precipitation can be. Since the lowest pressure is created in the center of the cyclone. A cyclone is an area of ​​bad weather.

at what pressure does it rain

Why does the wind blow and it rains video

In chapter Natural Sciences to the question At what readings of the barometer can it rain. Why is it raining at high readings. given by the author Ѐuslan Vitalievich, the best answer is a signal for a change in the weather, which means that it is probably not low atmospheric pressure for rain either. The main criterion is a sharp change in pressure. It often happens that the pressure rises and it rains. The reason is simple: a sharp change in pressure causes the appearance of winds, and they bring rain clouds.

DV wrote everything correctly, but it is necessary to add. The wind always blows from where the pressure is higher to where the pressure is lower. If we have high pressure, then the wind blows from us somewhere else, and carries our clouds there.

Therefore, we do not have rain, but where the pressure is low, there is rain.

And if our pressure is low, then, accordingly, the wind brings clouds to us, and it rains here.

The study of natural phenomena: changes in atmospheric pressure, the approach of rain

“Oh, how many wonderful discoveries we have

Prepare enlightenment spirit

And a genius, a friend of paradoxes. ”

It was not in vain that I took the lines of the great Russian poet A. S. Pushkin as an epithet, because the study of most sciences is impossible without setting up experiments.

From the textbook "The World Around" I learned about many amazing natural phenomena. I wanted to make layouts natural phenomena and experiment with them. Having become interested, I got acquainted with these phenomena from the literature in more detail. Decided to experiment on my own. I had to show creativity and ingenuity.

I chose two natural phenomena:

* Atmospheric precipitation (rain).

There is an atmosphere around our globe. The atmosphere is a mixture of various gases, mainly nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%). The atmosphere presses on the Earth's surface. But the influence (pressure) of the atmosphere cannot be seen with the eyes. We can only feel it when our state of health changes. And how is it not easy for a person to understand and study what cannot be seen. A barometer can help with this. It measures atmospheric pressure. But modern barometers are very complex and show digital changes in the atmosphere. I designed the layout of the simplest barometer. It allows you to see the effect of atmospheric pressure on the membrane of the device and makes this phenomenon from invisible, quite real (visible).

More than 70% of the Earth's surface is covered with water. Of the total amount of water, 1% is in the atmosphere, 97% in the oceans, and the rest in rivers, lakes and glaciers. Under the influence of solar heat, the water evaporates and rises into the air. Air contains this invisible water vapor. The amount of water vapor in the air is characterized by an indicator of humidity. As the water vapor rises, it cools and collects into tiny water droplets to form clouds. When the drops are large enough, they fall out as precipitation (rain or snow). The higher the humidity, the greater the likelihood of cloud formation and precipitation. This means that by establishing empirically, an increase in humidity in the atmosphere, we will be able to predict rainfall. I've put together a rain detector based on the effect of humidity in the atmosphere.

Setting up experiments is a very exciting activity. All the experiments I conducted are simple and are carried out with the implementation of safety precautions, which is important for those who conduct experiments at home, especially for the first time. I describe the preliminary preparation and stages of execution, which allows me to carefully handle objects in the future and properly organize my work plan. In addition to the studied natural phenomena, in these experiments you can simultaneously get acquainted with the laws of physics (electricity) and acquire technical skills (soldering, assembling an electrical circuit, working with a screwdriver). It is always useful to a man.

Thus, the studied information material and our own experiments based on it formed the basis of this work, defining its purpose, objectives and conclusions.

Setting up experiments to study phenomena surrounding nature.

* Conduct observations of natural phenomena selected for experiments (changes in weather, precipitation);

* Develop and conduct experiments;

* Take a picture of the results;

Model of my barometer (Experiment No. 1).

experience material: jar, balloon, juice tube, scotch tape and cardboard.

I cut off the balloon and pulled it over the jar. The result is a stretched membrane. Secured the ball on the neck with an elastic band. I made an arrow out of a juice tube, sharpening its end. I fixed one end of it with tape in the middle of the ball covering the jar. The arrow must be strictly horizontal. I put a piece of cardboard next to the jar so that the outer end of the arrow barely touched it, and marked the position of its tip in red (atmospheric pressure at the beginning of the experiment). Draw a scale along this line. I glued this piece of cardboard with duct tape to the jar and followed the position of the arrow.

With an increase in atmospheric pressure, the surface of the ball seemed to be pressed into the vessel and the arrow rose up the scale.

When the atmospheric pressure dropped, the air from the can pressed on the surface of the ball from the inside, tending upwards, and lifted the ball.

The arrow went down the scale. You will not see the exact indicators of atmospheric pressure on such a barometer, since the membrane of a stretched ball is not thin and sensitive enough. The tube descends and rises by only one division, but the rise and fall of atmospheric pressure can be seen very clearly. These results matched the weather announcements in the local newspaper.

Observations have shown: With an increase in atmospheric pressure, the weather was clear and sunny. With a decrease in pressure - cloudy, sometimes rainy.

My next experience is devoted to the study of precipitation (rain). The clouds have gathered. Soon it will rain. How to find out about it in time? The rain gauge will help me.

Construction of the “Rain Determinant” model (Experiment No. 2).

experience material: clothespin, electric wire (about 2m, so that the wire reaches the window), 2 “finger” batteries, a flashlight bulb, 2 screws, lump sugar.

I screwed 2 screws into the clothespin from different sides. I attached (soldered) the stripped ends of the wire to them. I fixed a piece of sugar between the ends of the clothespin so that the electrical circuit would not close.

I assembled the “rain detector” electrical circuit: I connected the wire from the clothespin with a battery and a light bulb in series.

He put the clothespin with a piece of sugar out the window into the street. With increased air humidity (humidity is the amount of water in the atmosphere), which happens before rain, sugar gradually absorbs water, crumbles and breaks. The contacts close and the light turns on.

According to my observations, after about 30 minutes. it started to rain.

CONCLUSIONS

1. Atmospheric pressure, rain are phenomena subject to clear laws of nature that can be observed and studied.

2. The experiments carried out make it possible to better understand these laws.

3. Photographs and models of experiments confirm this study.

Based on the results obtained in the course of the work, a set of recommendations for novice experimenters has been developed:

* all substances and materials used must be accessible and safe for health;

* when setting up the “barometer model” experiment, it is necessary to use a large container with a wide neck to create a thinner and more sensitive membrane

a ball when pulled and more air in the jar for better visibility of the experience; the tube should be as thin and light as possible;

* when setting up the “rain detector” experiment, you need to use a 3V battery or two 1.5V batteries; instead of a light bulb, you can use an electric bell (or a small transistor that runs on batteries and turns on a musical wave), collect the electrical circuit in series, it is better to solder the stripped ends of the wire, for the strength of the contacts.

CONCLUSION

It is not difficult to conduct these experiments, but it is interesting. They are safe, simple and useful. My barometer warns my grandmother about changes in atmospheric pressure, and she takes her medicine on time. The rain won't surprise me. New research ahead!

BIBLIOGRAPHY

* Children's encyclopedia "I want to know everything" // M. "Planet of Childhood" - 2003. - P. 260–261.

* New schoolchild encyclopedia //– M. Makhaon.– 2009.– P. 128 – 129.

MOU-Lyceum (Physics and Mathematics), Vladikavkaz

1. All pictures had to be taken clearly in the plane of the cover, and not at an angle. Otherwise, it is not entirely clear whether the deviation of the arrow is really associated with a change in pressure, or just an unsuccessful angle.

2. The tube must end exactly in the middle, otherwise, when the film is pressed in, it will rest in the opposite direction.

3. Well, in fact, there are no pictures with film bending - this would be the most obvious proof of the barometer.

And one more thing (I repeat, of course, but the works are similar) WE DO NOT TEACH THE CHILD TO MAKE ASSUMPTIONS (to put forward hypotheses)

And the work itself is very interesting and completely on topic!

delta_P = 30 mm. rt. Art.

P = 760 mm. rt. Art.

hence delta_V = 0.04 liters = 40 cm 3.

They looked like this: transparent on the sides, and in contact with the asphalt they had a thick water curl inside and the same on top. I didn’t find an explanation anywhere, it’s very interesting and I can’t forget the balls. Sincerely, L.

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Vessels, nerves and atmospheric pressure

Everyone, without exception, has had a headache at least once in their life. Headaches come in many forms. The forehead hurts, it hurts the temples, the crown or the back of the head. The pain aches, presses, bursts, shoots. It happens in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening, at night, after too short or, on the contrary, a long sleep, in the heat, before the rain, in the rain. Sometimes the pain is accompanied by nausea, vomiting, epistaxis, dizziness, photophobia. What can all this mean?

The three most common causes of headache are known: psycho-emotional stress, vascular disorders and intoxication with an infectious disease. If everything is more or less clear with infections - at the beginning of ARVI, many note the onset of a headache even before the temperature rises - then let's talk a little more about the vascular component. What causes it?

Fatigue and stress provoke tension in the muscles of the neck and scalp, this tension, in turn, causes spasm of the vessels of the neck and head. This is a mechanism for the development of so-called tension headaches, previously they were called "neurotic helmet", because patients compare the sensation with a heavy helmet or helmet put on their heads.

The lability of blood pressure (its increase and decrease) changes vascular tone. For weather-dependent people, this may be a reaction to changes in atmospheric pressure: there are “barometer people” whose headache predicts rain more accurately than any weather station. In cervical osteochondrosis, altered vertebrae or a herniated disc compress the vertebral arteries, disrupting blood flow, especially when turning and tilting the head.

Violation of vasomotor regulation on the part of the central nervous system, due to a complex set of causes, causes symptoms of hemicrania, brilliantly described by Bulgakov in The Master and Margarita as the disease of the procurator Pontius Pilate.

In the modern world, young women are more likely to suffer from migraines. The frequency of migraine attacks can be from two to eight per month, and the duration is from 20-30 minutes to 3 days. You can imagine how much this disease spoils life.

The attack can be preceded by the so-called aura - these are visual (flickering light, fog before the eyes), auditory, gustatory, tactile illusions and hallucinations, dizziness, changes in speech and perception. After the aura, the actual headache develops - strong, throbbing. One half of the head hurts (hence the name "hemicrania"), the pain can spread to the eye, face, neck. The pain is aggravated by bright light, sharp sounds, smells, so complete darkness and silence is the first, albeit insufficient, self-help. Plus complete rest and sick leave for a couple of days to avoid deterioration of standing.

Treating a migraine is very difficult. This is a capricious, not fully understood disease, which is difficult to treat. And, of course, not only treatment is important, but also prevention of migraine attacks. As with other headaches with a vascular component, a drug is needed that effectively improves cerebral circulation. Vasobral (dihydroergocryptine and caffeine) has been shown to be effective in preventing migraine attacks. In a study involving more than 4,500 patients, Vasobral was shown to reduce the frequency, duration and intensity of headaches in patients with migraine1.

Relieve spasm, solve problems

The mechanism of action of the drug Vasobral is explained by the targeted effect on vascular smooth muscle cells: vascular spasm is stopped, blood circulation and metabolic processes in the brain are improved. By reducing platelet aggregation, the drug facilitates the passage of blood through the vessels, prevents thrombosis, and also activates serotonin and dopamine receptors, which is especially important for migraine prevention.

Additionally, Vazobral improves mood and well-being, increases physical and mental performance, reduces fatigue and drowsiness, and facilitates the assimilation of new information.

Vazobral is available in two forms - an oral solution (for convenience, a dosing syringe is attached) and tablets. For a long lasting effect, a course of 3 months is indicated, one tablet or 4 ml of solution 2 times a day. This is a good prevention of headache attacks of a vascular nature.

Discard heavy hairpins, tightly braided braids, headbands.

Get a blood pressure monitor and monitor your blood pressure regularly. Even if you have never had high blood pressure before, everything can happen for the first time.

Observe the sleep and rest regimen, sleep in a ventilated room, walk before going to bed in the fresh air.

Massage of the neck, head and collar area will have a beneficial effect on the condition of the muscles and blood vessels of the neck and head.

Drugs that improve cerebral circulation, such as Vasobral, when taken regularly, will help you forget about headaches and improve your well-being.

1. Tabeeva G.R., Azimova Yu.Z. Migraine - emphasis on preventive treatment // Handbook of a polyclinic doctor. 2010. No. 8.

Rainy summer diseases: why before a thunderstorm a headache and aching joints

How not to become a living barometer

However, most often people who feel the approach of rain literally with their skin or heart complain about a change in the weather. Indeed, at risk, which can suffer from constant downpours, are people with such diseases:

• migraine;
• cardiovascular diseases;
• vegetative-vascular dystonia;
• asthma;
• osteoatrosis;
• hormonal imbalance;
• pyelonephritis, cystitis;
• chronic diseases.

It turned out that from a medical point of view, such dependence on rain on the street is not dangerous, but it significantly impairs the quality of life. The body tries to adapt to adverse conditions, including protective functions, but in weather-sensitive people, this protection fails, which is why adverse effects appear. The mechanism of the influence of weather conditions on the human body is still unknown, but people have already learned how to alleviate their condition.

Barometric pressure fluctuations and rarefied air (one with little oxygen) before rain can come back to haunt a migraine for weather-sensitive people. This is due to a violation of the work of blood vessels. The body regulates the pressure in the cardiovascular system, focusing on the pressure in the external environment. The brain signals that it needs more oxygen. If the elasticity of the vessels is broken, they quickly narrow, but slowly expand, which adversely affects blood circulation. If such headaches become frequent, these attacks are stopped with the help of medicines, but this should be done only under the guidance of a doctor. If the problem is more of a one-time nature, you can normalize oxygen consumption: open the window, go outside.

Rheumatic people react especially strongly to rain. Their bones break before the rain. Also, living barometers are people who have undergone fractures or operations. This is due to the fact that with increasing humidity, not only atmospheric pressure changes, but also the pressure in the articular cavity. Healthy joints do not feel this pressure. But if the cartilage tissue is damaged or inflamed, the joints begin to ache. This group of weather-dependent people is recommended to keep anti-inflammatory ointments on hand and not to forget about sports related to water (swimming, water aerobics). Sauna or bath will also help to cope with the malaise. But if the joints hurt only because of the weather, you need to visit a doctor. Since this symptom may be associated with rheumatoid arthritis or arthrosis.

In damp weather it is not easy for asthmatics. On such days, you can not leave the house without an inhaler, and asthma attacks must be dealt with with the help of medicines prescribed by the doctor. For rainy weather, asthma patients are advised to prepare in advance. Your daily diet should be enriched with fresh fruits, vegetables, lean meat, fish, while avoiding the use of spicy, fatty and salty foods.

Vegetative-vascular dystonia is also activated in rainy weather. Loss of strength, chills, dizziness, sweating - these are the symptoms that a person feels before a thunderstorm and a downpour. Such patients are recommended to take adaptogens that help to adapt to adverse conditions - eleutherococcus, tinctures of hawthorn, ginseng, lemongrass.

Some people notice that in the rain they become irritable, suffer from insomnia and unreasonable anxiety. This is due to the fact that due to changes in atmospheric pressure, the work of the thalamus (a part of the brain responsible, in particular, for regulating the functions of all systems and organs in accordance with the weather) fails. You can normalize sleep with infusions of soothing herbs - peony, motherwort, valerian. Baths with coniferous extract or essential oils of fir, pine, cedar, and spruce also help.

Whatever symptoms the body reacts to rainy weather, doctors have developed a number of general recommendations for all groups of weather-sensitive people. These days it is better to protect yourself from physical and emotional stress, live unfavorable days in a sparing mode: without alcohol, junk food and tobacco. Rain is not at all a reason to refuse walks, you just need to dress for the weather and stock up on good mood and optimism, because nature does not have bad weather.

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Pressure drops in rain or snow - drink sweet tea

Why do people react to the whims of the heavenly office and how to reduce this influence. These and other questions to our newspaper were answered by the chief therapist of the city, doctor the highest category Ludmila Dorozhkina.

Lyudmila Evgenievna, there is slush in the yard, there is no sun. Many Kaliningraders assure that they feel bad in bad weather. Is there such a disease - meteorological dependence?

This is not a disease. But according to statistics, a third of Russians really react to changes in atmospheric pressure, a sharp change in weather, and solar activity. Most often, patients with chronic cardiovascular and lung diseases. People with an unstable psyche also react to weather disasters. On bad days, they complain about feeling unwell, but at the same time, they do not experience any negative changes in the body.

How does a person react to celestial cataclysms?

Differently. For some, the pressure goes down, for others, on the contrary, it goes up. There are headaches, dizziness, vomiting, and loss of consciousness may occur. Emotional people complain of a deterioration in mood, apathy, or, conversely, unmotivated aggression.

Why does the human body react in such a way to weather changes and how to explain that not all people are weather dependent?

More often, people with an unstable vascular wall suffer from changes in atmospheric pressure. With a sharp change in the weather, there is a redistribution of blood in the body. When the vessels do not keep up with this process, crises occur - a sharp drop or increase in blood pressure. Both of these conditions are extremely dangerous. The consequences are strokes and heart attacks.

What to do to avoid deterioration of health in rainy days?

Check the weather forecasts in newspapers or on TV. Tracking this information, prepare (including mentally) for bad day. Heart patients need to stock up on medicines to help avoid critical conditions. You know that your blood pressure may rise - take drugs that regulate this process. Hypotension patients should definitely have breakfast in the morning and drink sweet strong tea or coffee. These drinks or tablets containing caffeine will help you cope with low pressure at work. You can also take a drop of Corvalol or Valocordin. They raise the pressure a little. I want to warn you, hypotension can occur not only from changes in the weather. This is a symptom of thyroid disease, vascular disorders. If you often suffer from low blood pressure, be sure to see your doctor.

And what about those who have symptoms of meteorological dependence not due to chronic ailments, but on a mental level?

Such people also need to monitor the weather and take calming drugs on the eve of bad days, drink tea with mint, valerian. Try to convince yourself that a magnetic storm, rain, snowfall are not eternal. A day or two - the weather will improve and the sun will come out. At home and at work on gloomy days, turn on more lights, this will help get rid of autumn depression. If the blues do not go away, contact a psychotherapist. There was a breakdown - drink a monthly course of multivitamins. Be outdoors more. Rain is no problem for this. Dress in warm clothes, waterproof boots and then you will be convinced that nature does not have bad weather.

What to do if the weather changes dramatically:

Limit physical activity, try to avoid additional physical (psycho-emotional) stress;

Take medications that help you with worsening symptoms, the appearance of symptoms of exacerbation of chronic diseases;

With the initial manifestations of an increase or decrease in blood pressure, you should do a light massage of the neck and shoulder girdle, mustard foot baths, put mustard plasters on the back of the head;

Take drugs that calm the nervous system - tincture of valerian, motherwort, mint tea, as well as drugs that lower or increase blood pressure;

If there is little oxygen in the air (this happens when warming and the low atmospheric pressure that accompanies it), those suffering from cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases need to be in the air more. Remedial gymnastics, especially breathing exercises, will help.

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pressure during rain

Here I have a headache for a change in the weather, something with pressure.

During the day it was sickening before the rain.

Now it's raining and my head hurts again.

Somehow I want to learn how to navigate in atmospheric pressure, in order to know approximately when you may feel unwell.

Because air pressure drops quickly before a thunderstorm, and your internal blood and cerebrospinal fluid pressure does not have time to decrease, it is elevated, and then intracranial pressure rises. here it is pressing. Massage, an osteopath, do dopplerography of the cerebral vessels, you will find a difficult outflow of blood.

Only a barometer will certainly show exactly what pressure is at your point.

There is a difference even between the 1st and 9th floors.

762 is almost the norm is still good. Bad for hypotension around 780

Atmospheric pressure fluctuations at sea level have been noted % BC% D0% BE% D1% 80% D1% 8F) within 684 - 809 mm Hg. Art. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D 1%80_ %D1%80%D1%82%D1%83%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0 %BE_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0 %B1%D0%B0)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%80%D 0%BD% D0%BE%D0%B5_%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0 %BD%D0%B8%D0%B5

So maybe an hour ago it was 767. And it fell sharply, then it doesn’t matter what is normal now, what matters is what has changed. and the body did not have time to rebuild.

Diuretic tablets. This is for hypertensive patients.

Hypotensive patients drink coffee.

Let him take my cat with him: 046: Fart always sleeps with a thunderstorm and rain.

Scientists observed the mentally ill and found that Greidenberg also had the opportunity to repeatedly observe the undoubted effect of barometric fluctuations on the mentally ill. The striking coincidence of his observations with those of Kripiakevich gave Greidenberg reason to put forward the following propositions: 1) barometer fluctuations have an undoubted effect on the mentally ill; 2) this influence is expressed mainly in a change in the well-being and mood of patients, causing or strengthening their anxiety and arousal, insomnia, etc .; 3) these phenomena usually follow barometer fluctuations, rarely precede them; 4) a particularly sharp appearance of the effect of barometric fluctuations on the mentally ill is found during the periods of spring and autumn equinox, in March and September; 5) the course of some forms of periodic psychoses, apparently, is subject, along with other causing causes, to external atmospheric influences.

Maybe if they observed healthy people, they would draw the same conclusions about healthy people?

Hypotonic patients drink coffee. I am a normosthenic, neither one nor the other helps me.

In general, you need to train the vessels. Bath, contrast shower. But all this had to be done in advance, and not wait for the thunder. And this does not help either.

this is average temperature by hospital. emnip for peter norm - around 740

I, too, if possible, will sleep before a thunderstorm and rain.:065.

Scientists have proven that the weather has a very strong effect on health. With a sharp change in weather conditions, many people experience:

1. The blood pressure rises
2. A strong heartbeat begins;
3. There is insomnia and a bad mood;
4. Fatigue, depression, laziness.

People suffering from weather sensitivity should take their health more seriously. Sometimes a normal increase in air temperature can not only increase upper blood pressure, but also cause a heart attack.

A sharp increase or decrease in degrees outside can lead to the development of complications for those who suffer from chronic diseases. The weather forecast for such people should become daily monitoring. It is necessary to monitor the air temperature, jumps in atmospheric pressure, wind speed. It is very important to prepare for the changing weather!

Symptoms of meteosensitivity in hypertension

How does the weather affect blood pressure? In hypertensive patients with changes in weather conditions, severe headaches appear. Sometimes there are cases of severe dizziness and fainting.

Starting from the second stage of hypertension, symptoms may appear:

• heart pain;
• High blood pressure;
• shortness of breath and nausea;
• Depression and stress.

In patients who suffer from a disorder of the nervous system, it often happens! To a greater extent, such cases are diagnosed in the spring.

Heart attack and stroke are more common in hypertensive patients and heart patients during the passage of a weather front or on a full moon. At this time, the vascular tone changes in people, the blood begins to clot more intensively, blood clots form. On such days, you need to keep yourself in good shape, give up alcohol, drink decoctions of medicinal herbs, and eat healthy foods.

Magnetic storms are another enemy of hypertensive patients. During this period, in 70% of people diagnosed with hypertension, blood pressure changes, drowsiness appears, vision deteriorates, and the heart hurts.

Doctors advise with magnetosensitivity to eat fish, milk, peas and lentils.

Prevention of meteopathies

If a person is sensitive to changes in weather conditions, then you should remember simple recommendations:

1. You can not overwork in early spring and late autumn.
2. You need to sleep at least 8 hours a day.
3. Finding several hours a day in the fresh air away from the city and highways.
4. Need to lead active image life. Morning exercises, evening jogs or walks, swimming in the pool on weekends.
5. Daily shower with cool water.

Spring and autumn are the best occasions to go to a sanatorium or resort vacation. For hypertensive patients it is useful to go closer to the mountains.

Table: scheme of medical assessment of weather conditions

Healthy Herbs for Weather Sensitive People

Phytotherapeutists in the period of a sharp change in weather advise drinking decoctions or adding medicinal plants to tea:

• To normalize blood pressure in hypertension: arnica, mistletoe, cudweed, sedge, chokeberry, periwinkle.
• For quick falling asleep and in cases of emotional excitement: valerian, motherwort, lemon balm, oregano.
• Diuretics: birch, mountaineer, lingonberry, cranberry, St. John's wort.
• To reduce intracranial pressure: cornflower, birch, blueberry, knotweed.

It is important to monitor your BP throughout the day! Strong jumps can cause a stroke or heart attack, so you should not postpone the fight against the disease.

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