Why are some elderly people afraid of heat, and some are afraid of heat?

People always have to face birth, old age, sickness and death, and as they grow older, they slowly change from the first newborn child to a teenager, a young adult, and an old ......In the end, we will always become old people with gray hair and teeth, and each of us also has grandparents at home, and we will also find that they are particularly afraid of cold and heat.

Sometimes it's not winter, as long as the weather is a little cooler, wear a lot of thick clothes, maybe we still have a long-sleeved jacket, in fact, when we get old, it will be like this, the old people are afraid of cold and heat and are not willing to do this, because people are old, the function of various parts of the body declines, just like we adults have to sleep for at least ten hours to feel the most comfortable, and we have been asleep when the movement is not large.

But the old people are different, as long as there is a little movement to wake up, the daily sleep time seems to be only a few hours, always sleep is not enough, we often see that in the winter the old people will hold a warmer.

The quality of the body is declining, and the kidneys are failing, so if you don't pay attention to it, it is not the cold and fever of young people, but these diseases that are causing some existing diseases in the body, and they burst out together and finally they are hospitalized, which is not like us taking a medicine, and the body's recovery ability is also very low.

It's like my grandmother accidentally broke her hand the year before last, and as a result, this break didn't fully recover until this year, and every time I came home, she would say that my hand hurts, which really made me know how people change when they get older.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the fear of heat in old age is mainly related to yin deficiency.

I think this situation is related to the external environment of people's physical signs, and people's physical signs are different, so some elderly people are heat-resistant, and some people are not afraid of heat.

There are a variety of reasons why older people are more sensitive to heat. First of all, it may be due to the fact that the fat layer is relatively thin, so it is more sensitive to temperature increases. Second, it may be due to insufficient thyroid secretion.

There are several reasons why older people feel hot when it's cold:

1. Autonomic or autonomic nerves.

Dysfunction, after the elderly age, the function of various tissues and organs in the body is declining, including the autonomic nervous system or autonomic nervous system, and the elderly will feel uncomfortable feeling of cold or heat all over the body after the autonomic nervous system function declines.

2. Hyperthyroidism. Due to the basal metabolic rate of patients with hyperthyroidism.

Elevated, older people often feel hot and irritated, accompanied by hyperphagia and weight loss.

Fat is a good insulating material, while obese people have thicker subcutaneous fat, as if wearing a close-fitting leather jacket. It stands to reason that obese people should be more hardy than thin people, but the opposite is true. During the winter months, it is common to hear obese people complaining about the cold weather, wearing more clothes than others, and looking more bulky.

What is the reason for this? It may be that the heat production efficiency of obese people is different from that of thin people. After studying the phenomenon of Berleng in obese people, some scholars put forward the hypothermic hypothesis:

No matter how much heat is produced, the thin person has a high heat production efficiency; In obese people, the efficiency of heat production is very low. It's like saying that the thin man is like a well-burned boiler, and the fuel he throws in burns it completely, and it quickly heats up the boiler; But the fat man is like a poorly burned boiler, the fuel thrown in can't be burned out, and the boiler can't be heated.

This hypothermic hypothesis has been supported by a number of scientific findings, such as the discovery that obese people have shown significantly lower postprandial thermogenesis than non-obese people since childhood.

Therefore, although obese people have one more "leather jacket" than thin people, due to the low efficiency of the body in converting food into heat, they often feel cold when they are cold.

In addition, it is precisely because obese people have an extra "leather jacket" that makes it difficult for them to dissipate heat, so in the hot summer, obese people are more afraid of heat than normal people.

Some are due to physical reasons, and it is not only related to fat and thin.

This is an incurable ......