If you feel unwell in the hours immediately preceding a change in weather, you could suffer from meteoropathy, like three out of ten Italians. The abrupt climatic variations in fact, can cause unmotivated nervousness, anxiety, headache, heaviness of the limbs, but also accentuate the intensity of the symptoms of some pathologies. Let’s get to know this particular ailment better.
How do you to understand if there is a link between your own health state and the whims of the time? The signals are not lacking and they begin to manifest already in 24-48 hours before the arrival of a change weather.
Why do you suffer from meteoropathy
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According to established from a research ofUniversity of Milan,
“When change the weather, the air becomes charged with electricity. Generally the hypothalamus he “notices”, sometimes even 48 hours before, e modification its functioning so to avoid that our body does resents. In some people however, for reasons that are not entirely clear, this mechanism is not coordinated and here are the well known symptoms “.
To give an idea, one disturbance can increase by intensity an ailment you already have, such as toothache or rheumatic pains; while a cold wind, such as the north wind or north wind, could trigger a worsening of your crises of asthma or give palpitations to the heart.
A hot wind, like the Fohn or lo Scirocco, often causes one fatigue exaggerated or, on the contrary, restlessness. An abrupt thermal shock instead, with increase o decrease of the temperature of many degrees, can result migraines also a lot intense.
Meteoropathy: those who suffer from it
“Once in a lifetime it can happen to everyone of”feel”The arrival of a thunderstorm particularly threatening “,
Professor intervenes Massirone.
“There are those who suffer from a real one sensitivity meteoropathic, especially when the organism it’s more vulnerable, as during a period of super work or in the week before the arrival of Menses.
There are also those who are true barometer and detects each change of time. In this case, to confirm that you suffer from meteoropathy, you can undergo the test of Gualtierotti-Tromp, that comes performed in the main centers of bioclimatology.
The doctor measures the temperature of the Palm of the hand left, which is typically approx 32 °C, then you dip it for two minutes into one basin of cold water a 10 °C. If you go back to one new temperature measurement and if this within six minutes has not yet returned to normality, it means that the subject is meteoropathic “,
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concludes professor Massirone.
Treating meteoropathy
If your “Bad weather” It makes you irritable, in the evening you can sip one herbal tea prepared with orange blossom, rose petals and anise. If you notice that the disorder you were already suffering from getting worse, you can take a painkiller without waiting for evil to become unbearable.
Per “train” the hypothalamus to get used to variations temperature, you can make gods bathrooms alternating water hot e cold, which have an effect tonic on the whole the organism. The ideal measures, however, must be taken for the disturbances that yes they sharpen with the weather changes.
For example, those who suffer from pain rheumatic could undergo a cycle of physiotherapy; against the palpitations, to regularize the heart, you can adopt one diet based on fish; while if your problem is the fatigue, you can try with some supplements of vitamins and minerals.