Summer is here, take care of your health.!

Summer is here, take care of your health.!

World Health organization says that global temperatures and the frequency and intensity of heat waves will rise in the 21st century as a result of climate change. Extended periods of high day and nighttime temperatures would affect physiological stress on the human body. Heatwaves can acutely impact large populations for short periods of time, often trigger public health emergencies and result in excess mortality. They can also cause loss of health service delivery capacity, where power-shortages which often accompany heatwaves disrupt health facilities, transport, and water infrastructure.

In India, as March started, heat of summer is increasing all over the state. Heat stroke also affects the body. Favorable days of winter transforms to two to three months of intolerable days of summer. It should not be ignored that this summer heat causes many bad impact on our health. Impact of summer is referred as heat stroke. Every year heat stroke causes many deaths. Diseases associated with heat, rises with a rise in the temperature of the summer season. Naturally those people are prone for “pitta” (types of nature described in Ayurveda) are more susceptible to heat related diseases, such diseases increases with the increase in heat in this season. Summer heat causes various symptoms such as: burning of the body, burning in stomach, feeling thirsty, perspiration, dizziness, weakness, pain in calf, and many more.

Summer heat may cause diseases ranging from simple fever to measles and many other skin diseases. All this can be prevented by maintaining proper diet planning; even proper planning of clothing and their colors would also help to minimize the impact of summer heat. Seasonal fruits of summer such as mangoes, tadgole, cashew nuts, karavand etc. gave a feeling of completeness in the diet. These can be taken in a proper manner; mainly water is the only main diet factor in summer season. Many people keep water with them, which helps in prevention of dehydration, also helps in cooling of the overall body. Water also helps in prevention of renal diseases by detoxification and also prevents many other diseases indicating the increasing importance of water in the summer season.

Processed cool water with sandal wood, Vala (type of tree which helps in purification of water) and Kapar helps in complete cure of burning all over the body. Coconut water and water in served or kept in copper pot and in silver pot help in prevention of frequent thirsty feeling.  Water processed with dhaniya and cumin seeds help in releasing symptoms such as burning micturition. Water kept in soil pot such as mataka has naturally many good properties. Water from copper pot helps in prevention of cough (Ayurveda types of diseases). Vegetables of food made from kelphul and padval are good for health in this season. Tondali, pumpkin if made in a proper way can helps in minimizing buring sensation in the body.  Methis should not be used as it increases heat in the body. In a similar way, other vegetables such as eggplant, karela etc should also be avoided in these days; instead kohala (types of vegetable) can be taken to prevent the heat stroke in summer. Soup of kohala, paratha of kohala, kohala pak and petha are few of food can be used in these days. Cucumber with cumin seed can be useful for prevention of dehydration. Avoid taking water after having cucumber. If you feel thirsty because of heat, then jowar, rice and khichadi may help, but if you have itching then you have to avoid eating Nachani instead you can have rice, pop-corn sattu etc. if you have pitta then you should avoid nachani. Amla is very useful in the heat and feeling of thirst. Banana, grapes, Pomegranate, kavat, karvand etc also helps in all summer. Coconut water may useful in the prevention of dehydration. Those are suffering from a cough can take coconut water with adrak. Elayachi and jayphal also helpful in thirst.

If body heat increases, then milk, ghee, butter can be useful. In dizziness and weakness, milk of cow and butter can help a lot for prevention of symptoms and weakness. Buttermilk made by adding a pinch of cumin seeds, dhaniya will help in all types of renal and urine related disorders. If you have burning all over the body and dizziness then avoid warm water that will accelerate the intensity of the symptoms. Mug, Masoor and green pea help in all types of summer disorders. Children, pregnant women, women, elderly all should eat laddus of green Mung. These laddus helps in saving skin, increasing energy, and also helps in increasing appetite.  Haldi and adarak may also help in thirst. In severe burning rock candy with Kheer is useful. Rock candy is given more important than normal sugar in market. It is better to avoid Cold beverages, soft drinks, drinks on the road and even roadside ice-gola in these days as these are made by artificial methods and may impact adversely on the human body. Deforestation, lack of water resources causes global warming, which directly result in the increasing intensity of summer in terms of heat. Increasing intensity of summer result in heat waves which affect adversely majorly on human and animals as well. To prevent these global warming and associated situation is a major challenge before us and well planned lifestyle, well planned development would help in prevention of such disastrous future situation. Hence, everybody should undertake resolution of preventive measures from summer heat. 

Vaibhav Patil