13 Common Violations in Daily Life
Do you have the habit of plucking your ears and lying down to read? Do you race against time to read the newspaper when you are in the car? There are many unnoticed bad habits in daily life that are endangering our health. Today, the editor lists 13 daily habits that harm health. Come and see if you have been "shot".
1. Frequently pluck your ears
Frequent use of matchsticks, teeth, wire or small fingers in the ears to dig, easy to damage the eardrum, is a bad habit.
The external auditory canal is about seven to eight centimeters, and there is a layer of eardrum at the bottom that is responsible for listening to sounds. When you reach in slightly, you may damage the eardrum and affect your hearing. If you puncture the eardrum, you will become deaf. When you dig out your ears, your nails and ear plucking tools bruise the skin around the external auditory canal, and external otitis can also occur.
A small amount of earwax in the ear can fall out or be shaken out when people talk, eat, run, or exercise.
If there is too much earwax, it will block the hearing, affect the hearing, and make it uncomfortable, you can gently take the earwax out with a cotton swab. Don't use your fingernails or ear spoons to dig it out. If the ear is indeed blocked by a large piece of earwax and itches uncomfortably, you should find a doctor for examination and treatment, and don't dig it out by yourself.
2. Pick your nose casually
Some people have the habit of picking their nostrils, often using their fingers to dig through their nostrils. This will damage the nasal mucosa and is harmful to health.
The nasal mucosa is rich in blood vessels and interlaced into a network. The complete nasal mucosa has strong self-defense ability and is not easy for bacteria to invade. There are many nose hairs in the nasal cavity, which prevent dust and bacteria from entering the respiratory tract and is a big barrier for dust and bacteria to enter the respiratory tract.
People have a lot of bacteria on their hands. When picking their nostrils, it is easy to damage the mucosa of the nasal cavity and destroy the nose hair. The bacteria on their hands will then enter the damaged area, causing inflammation of the nasal hair group, pain, dry nose, fever, and general discomfort.
In severe cases, bacteria can also invade the intracranial cavernous sinus through facial blood vessels, causing infection and causing serious consequences. Therefore, it is not advisable to pick your nose casually, and you should get rid of the habit of picking your nose.
3. Lying down and reading
Reading while lying down can damage your eyesight, which is a well-known truth. However, the harm of reading while lying down goes beyond that.
Some physiologists believe that the bed is a place to sleep and rest. When people lie on the bed, the area of the human body that bears gravity increases, thus slowing down the body's physiological rhythm. This is the information that people sleep in.
However, reading while lying down causes the brain to constantly release signals, forcing a change in the body's already slowed circadian rhythm. Over time, it can throw the body's circadian rhythm out of balance, leading to neurasthenia and cardiovascular disease.
Some people who lie down and read for a long time experience symptoms such as trance and dizziness due to an imbalance in their circadian rhythms, which can lead to various diseases such as bone disease and anemia over time.
4. Reading books and newspapers while riding
Many people like to read books and newspapers while riding trains or cars. This kind of spirit of cherishing time and thirsting for knowledge is commendable, but from the perspective of protecting health, it is inappropriate to do so. No matter whether you take a train or a car, there are many people on the car and there is not enough light. If you read a book for a long time, it will inevitably put a great burden on your eyes and damage your health.
On the other hand, when the vehicle is in motion, it swings left and right and jumps up and down, causing the distance between the eyes and the book to change, the handwriting is unclear, and the light is constantly changing. To see the handwriting on the book and newspaper, the focus must be constantly adjusted, which can easily cause fatigue of the optic nerve and easily lead to myopia. Excessive optic nerve fatigue will inevitably cause serious damage to its health. Therefore, it is not advisable to read books and newspapers when the vehicle is swaying.
5. Reading books and newspapers in the sun
Some people often like to read in the sun in winter or during the lukewarm spring and autumn seasons. They think that this can not only bask in the sun, but also not delay reading and studying, killing two birds with one stone. In fact, this practice is inappropriate. Reading in the sun and letting the sun shine directly is harmful to the eyes.
Sunlight contains infrared and ultraviolet rays that the human eye cannot see at all. If the human eye is directly exposed to ultraviolet rays for too long, it will damage the cells on the black eyes, causing severe pain in the eyes. It will take a few days to return to normal.
Even if you don't let the sun shine directly on your eyes, reading in the sun, the reflected light of the paper is too strong and dazzling, making people uncomfortable to see, causing people's eyes to suffer from photophobia and tingling. Over time, it will hurt your eyes. Therefore, it is inappropriate to read in the sun.
6. Reading newspapers while using the toilet
Some people are used to taking a newspaper or a book while going to the toilet, and squatting for half a day. This approach has less advantages and more disadvantages. Reading and reporting miscellaneous things while going to the toilet will not only inhibit the consciousness of defecation, but also interfere with the brain's command of defecation conduction nerves and prolong the time of defecation. Squatting on the toilet for too long will block the blood flow of the pelvic vein, dilate blood vessels, and easily induce hemorrhoids; even lose the sensitivity of the rectum to fecal stimulation, which will cause stool over time.
Squatting in the toilet for too long can also cause temporary lack of blood supply to the brain, and it is easy to experience syncope and falls when standing up, especially for those who are chronically ill, frail, and elderly, and are more prone to accidents when standing up. In addition, the toilet is generally dim and the light is insufficient. Reading books and newspapers there can also damage eye health. To develop regular defecation every day, you should not spend too long in the toilet. In particular, you should avoid reading books and newspapers during toilet time. Even if it is difficult to defecate, you should not squat for a long time.
7. Sitting on the sofa for a long time reading a book
Some people like to sit on the sofa and read a book, thinking that it is both comfortable and allows them to read and study for a long time, making them less prone to fatigue.
It's okay to do this for a short time, but doing it for a long time is inappropriate and harmful to people's health.
The seat of the sofa is very low, and it is elastic. After sitting on it, the arms are sunken, and the back muscles are elongated at the back of the pelvis. In the sun-watching position at this time, if the book is raised with both hands, the back, neck and eyes are comfortable, but the two arms cannot support it for long, and it is necessary to droop. This will cause the eyes to look down, and over time, the lower eye muscles will be tired.
If you straighten up your body and read a book with your head down, the back muscles are elongated again in the neck due to the force of gravity on your head. The same muscle has been elongated in the pelvis and elongated again in the neck. This will inevitably make people feel lumbar and neck pain for a long time, and it is easy to get cervical spine-related diseases after a long time.
Therefore, it is not advisable to sit on the sofa for a long time and read a book, let alone develop the habit of sitting on the sofa regularly.
8. Suppress crying
Since then, there has been a saying that "a man should not cry lightly", which means that a man should be strong and not cry at every turn. Even if he is very sad or sad, he should hold back. From a physiological health point of view, it is quite inappropriate.
A psychologist once conducted a survey. He divided some adults into two groups according to their blood pressure status, namely those with normal blood pressure and those with high blood pressure, and then investigated whether they had ever cried.
The survey results showed that 87% of people with normal blood pressure cried when they were sad, and the vast majority of people with high blood pressure never cried. Although it cannot be concluded that blood pressure changes are related to crying, crying when people are sad is still good for their health.
When in pain, people will naturally feel sad. This kind of emotion not only causes great pressure on people's spirit, but also has a series of adverse effects on people's physiology, which can make people nervous in a state of tension, loss of appetite, and endocrine dysfunction. If this emotion is not developed, and forcibly suppressed, it will damage people's health.
If you cry a lot when you are devastated, you can express your sadness and feel a lot more relaxed mentally, which is undoubtedly good for your health.
Therefore, when you encounter sadness, you can let it take its course without having to forcefully suppress your crying.
9. Suppress yawning
Yawning is a positive physiological phenomenon, and it is not appropriate to force it. When the body feels tired or sleepy, it cannot help but yawn a few times. This is a signal that it needs to rest or change to a new environment.
After watching a movie or TV, people often like to yawn, which is a kind of self-regulation to return to reality from the plot of the movie or TV.
After getting up in the morning or after sitting for a long time, you want to wake up quickly and cheer up your spirits. Yawning or before going to bed shows that the activity of the human cerebral cortex will enter a state of inhibition. The result of yawning is to relax the mind. This is not only because the oxygen inhaled during yawning increases, but also because the expansion and contraction activities of the head, chest and other parts of the body are enhanced, which improves the circulatory system.
It can be seen that blowing is good for the body. As long as it is not in public or in a serious and formal setting, you can yawn naturally without having to restrain it.
10. Suppress sighs
Generally speaking, sighing is a negative and pessimistic expression, so many people always suppress sighing. However, from a physiological and psychological perspective, sighing is good for health when you encounter problems and have no choice.
When people are frustrated, worried, or worried, they will feel a sense of emptiness after sighing; when people are panicked or melancholy, sighing has the effect of calming their minds; when people are stressed or tired at work, sighing is the effect of relaxing their minds.
When sighing, different sounds will have different effects. For example, spit out the word "call" to nourish the liver, spit out the word "ho" to meditate, spit out the word "call" to strengthen the spleen, and spit out the word "sprinkle" to clear the lungs. But pay attention to the natural flow of inhalation and exhalation.
11. Suppress sneezing
Sneezing is a physiological reflex movement of the human body. When breathing, the nasal cavity inhales some dust and pollen; when catching a cold, the nasal mucosa becomes bloody and secretions increase, causing the nasal mucosa to be irritated, which can cause sneezing. Sometimes, people can also sneeze when they are emotional or encounter strong light stimulation, cold and certain pain attacks.
Sneezing is a protective response. Through sneezing, a large number of bacteria (especially germs) can be expelled from the body when you are sick; when you are in a bad mood, you can sneeze to make your mood comfortable and stable; when you encounter foreign body stimulation, you can spray foreign bodies into the respiratory tract through sneezing.
Suppressing sneezing can cause nosebleeds and even break nasal bones. If you pinch your nose to suppress sneezing, it may also cause sinusitis and otitis media, so it is not advisable to suppress sneezing. However, in order to prevent indecent movements during sneezing, it is necessary to use your hands to grasp your mouth and nose.
12. Ignore snoring
Snoring is a sign of poor sleep breathing, and anyone can snore occasionally. However, with age, the opportunity to snore increases.
In general, light snoring or occasional or intermittent snoring has little impact on human health, but severe snoring or constant snoring every night should not be ignored.
Severe snoring can damage the health of the whole body due to insufficient oxygen inhalation. Severe snoring is often accompanied by frequent awakenings, easy nightmares, headaches after waking up, daytime burnout, and easy dozing off. This is not a normal snoring, but a disease - obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
If left untreated, it can often cause severe syndrome in the long run. Therefore, snoring should not be ignored, and a doctor should be checked and treated early.
13. Always wear headphones
Listening to concerts with headphones often damages hearing and is not good for health.
Scientific experiments have shown that in a noisy environment of more than 90 decibels for a long time, auditory lesions will gradually occur; the volume of stereo headphones reaches 85 to 130 decibels, the auditory canal is closed, and the sound pressure of this strong noise is directly transmitted to the eardrum, which will cause tremendous stimulation to the human auditory nerve and easily cause auditory fatigue.
According to studies, listening to four hours of stereo music a day with headphones can cause hearing loss.
In addition, the noise generated by stereo headphones can also cause damage to the human heart and brain, causing dizziness, brain swelling, heart palpitations, inattention, decreased sensitivity of thinking and reactions, poor memory, and even symptoms such as restlessness and lack of patience.
The issue of health has always been everyone's concern. But in fact, there are many bad habits that everyone knows about, but they have been committing. I hope everyone can pay attention after reading this article.
