Sworn friends of office workers
Our medical consultant: Elena Mikhailova, chief physician of the MEDSI clinic in Mitino.
Most of our contemporaries spend five days a week, or even more, in the office. By selflessly fulfilling our duties and earning a livelihood, we seriously risk our health. What kind of occupational diseases await office workers …
Apchi, allergy
The simplest thing that an office worker faces is an allergy to dust in the office. In order not to cough up to multi-colored stars, clean your workplace often. Use special damp wipes to wipe the monitor, keyboard, mouse and handset. Of course, the employees of the cleaning service do not honor, but conscientiously put things in order in the premises of your company, but, as you know, it is better to overdo it and wipe everything yourself. See your doctor!
Diseases of the digestive system
Refusal to eat breakfast, and sometimes lunch, unbalanced diet and abuse of coffee … as a result - the inevitable payback in the form of chronic diseases of the digestive system. Frequent companions of office workers are gastritis, which will not be difficult to avoid if you observe 3 meals a day plus 2-3 light snacks daily. Do not overload your stomach, give preference to healthy dietary meals that include fats, proteins and carbohydrates. Do not stifle hunger with a cup of coffee and chocolate - this is a direct path to gastritis.
Start your day with a carbohydrate breakfast, preferably oatmeal with fruit. For lunch, eat soup, light salad, a small protein dish, for dinner - low-fat cottage cheese, a glass of kefir with oatmeal cookies. See your doctor!
Hemorrhoids
With prolonged sitting, blood circulation in the pelvic organs is disturbed, there is a risk of hemorrhoids. A special orthopedic pillow will help to avoid this unpleasant, and in the literal sense of the word "acute" disease. The choice of models and colors is the widest. Let this simple prevention tool become a fashionable office gadget thanks to you. See your doctor!
Chronic fatigue syndrome
This is a serious disease that requires prompt medical intervention and timely treatment. Symptoms of CFS "loudly" declare themselves: it is a decrease in performance, bad mood up to depression, attention disorder and memory impairment. According to recent studies, this disease is of a viral nature, and you need to see a specialist to cure it.
To protect against CFS, it is necessary to normalize the daily regimen, take vitamins, spend more in the fresh air, be positively charged and, preferably, engage in auto-training. Decorate your workspace with the We just do it motivator poster and hope for the best. See your doctor!
Varicose veins
Diseases of the veins of the lower extremities are found in all inhabitants of the earth, although statistics say that, allegedly, only 20% of people. In the risk group, citizens with hereditary heredity, employed in standing and sedentary jobs, those who experience severe physical exertion, smoke, are overweight. Also at risk are pregnant women and people taking hormonal drugs. The most common vein pathology - their varicose veins, is found in every fourth man and every sixth woman in Russia.
Office workers, movement is life, and in our case - salvation from varicose veins! Did you have a free minute? Walk along the corridor, jump up several times and in no case sit "side to side". Sitting at the table, take off your shoes, sharply bend-straighten your toes, roll your feet with a cylindrical object, for example, a thick marker. See your doctor!
Tunnel Syndrome
Another danger that awaits everyone who works at a computer is carpal tunnel syndrome ("mouse" disease). The essence of the misfortune is this: your fingers, performing a lot of manipulations, build up tension in the wrist, which lies motionless on the computer mouse. Gradually, blood flow to the area of the carpal joint (tunnel) slows down, tissues swell, and nerves and tendons contract. Over time, the hand and median nerve - it travels through the carpal tunnel - becomes injured. Itching and trembling in the fingers, their numbness, swelling and redness of the back of the hand testify to the presence of "mouse" disease in you. In the later stages, tendon inflammation is possible.
Complete rejection of the computer will help to overcome the tunnel syndrome, and to make it easier - the purchase of an ergonomic keyboard and a special mouse pad with a gel pad for the wrist. To help - cold compresses followed by the application of a warming ointment. These measures will dramatically improve circulation to the wrist. It will not be superfluous to consult a doctor and undergo a course of physical and magnetic therapy, UHF, massage, acupuncture.
Osteochondrosis
Sedentary work with an unbearable load affects our long-suffering spine. A hunched position leads to an unhealthy curvature of the spine, provoking the appearance of at least osteochondrosis.. Muscles are pinched, after a few hours of work in a twisted position, the head begins to ache, the back aches, the lower back hurts.
Effective remedies for osteochondrosis - gymnastics and swimming - should be adopted by everyone who works in the office. Give preference to activities where shock is minimized. Take up yoga. In the fight for spinal health, proper nutrition will help. Fortify your menu with vitamins. Let vitamin B3 (pantothenic acid) and PP (nicotinic acid), C and E become your "best friends" from this day on. Eat more dairy products, as well as dishes with gelling substances - jellied meat, aspic, jelly. See your doctor!
Computer vision syndrome
Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) or dry eye syndrome occurs as a result of a deterioration in the quality of the tear film, which protects the eyeball from drying out and the cornea from pathogenic microbes. The symptoms of CVS are well known to anyone working with a computer. This is itching, burning, blurred images and lacrimation.
The human eye is not designed to read information from a monitor. Since any computer image or text is a collection of dots with fuzzy boundaries, it is difficult for the eye to perceive such "objects".
If you spend more than 6 hours a day in front of the monitor, do not neglect preventive measures: drink 2 liters of clean water a day, blink more often, do special exercises for each eye every couple of hours. Install the monitor correctly. It should be at a distance of 40-75 cm from you, the center of the screen - 15-20 cm below eye level.
Enhance your menu with natural and pharmacy vitamins. As an "ambulance" use special moisturizing drops - natural tear substitutes.
Paraphrasing the words of a famous song, we can say that, yes, we are lucky - we are not like everyone else - we work in the office, but … in order for work to bring joy, not pain, we must observe "safety measures", not neglect the principles rational nutrition and playing sports. See your doctor!
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