"Nasal cleansing" is not for our people.

August 14, the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau issued a National Health meteorological index-"nasal cleaning index", received wide attention and questioned. According to reports, the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau from the middle of the 90 's to launch a variety of index forecasts, including the UV index, skin index, such as popular with the public. The introduction of the "nasal cleaning index", according to the weather conditions, to remind the public air pollution to a lot of cleaning the nasal cavity to avoid respiratory diseases. The index, a number of medical experts questioned, the Chinese Medical Association of Shanghai, Fanglu, professor of Otolaryngology, said the experts in the field of the exchange of views after the unanimous expression, strongly requested the Meteorological Office to remove the nasal wash index forecast.　　On the evening of August 17, the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau suspended the index, saying it would listen to experts, the public and all parties, and decide whether to put into business on the basis of further scientific argumentation. Develop good hygiene habits the most important to the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau of this "nasal cleaning index", the Dalian City Center Hospital ENT Director, chief physician Zhangqingfung think "too frontier". He said that nasal cleansing is a very professional thing that not every ordinary citizen can handle. The introduction of this index may mislead the healthy population, because the normal nasal cavity itself has immune defense and self-purification, can cope with a variety of environment and maintain a smooth breathing, and maintenance of respiratory cleansing, nasal cavity in the environment is the basic guarantee of this defense system, do not need artificial change,　　Not by washing the nasal cavity to prevent disease and keep healthy. The nasal cavity breathes through 24 hours, and the dust that is inhaled is cleared away in 15 minutes. However, in the case of pollution, dry, nasal cilia movement will be hindered, nasal mucosa and nasal cilia will deposit a large number of dirt and bacteria, and rhinitis, sinusitis and other inflammatory and allergic diseases caused by direct correlation.　　Therefore, in daily life, it is very important to develop good personal hygiene habits. Zhangqingfung suggested that the usual attention should be paid to maintain the appropriate indoor temperature, humidity; Do not use your hands to pick your nose, do not pull nose hair, grasp the correct way to blow the nose, you can use a handkerchief or tissue gently cover the external mouth of two nostrils, with appropriate strength to blow out, to avoid the foreign　　To take appropriate protective measures when entering air pollution environment, such as wearing masks, rinse nose scab with warm water, and patients with allergic rhinitis should promptly use drugs to avoid aggravation of allergic degree and affect nasal function. Seasonal nasal allergy should pay extra attention now is the summer and autumn season, but also allergic rhinitis easy to hair period. Zhangqingfung director warns, nasal allergy should avoid allergy source, such as early autumn pollen, dust mites, blankets or animal dander. Eat less cold food or colder sex food. such as cold drinks, ice cream, cola, cold fruit, balsam pear and so on. In the air conditioning environment time should not be too long, fan should not be straight blown. Rinse the nasal cavity with warm water.　　Take part in physical exercise, such as swimming, jogging, striding fast, playing Taijiquan and so on, enhance their own immunity. At the same time, to distinguish the difference between cold and allergic rhinitis: 1Sneezing。　　A cold can sneeze, but not many times, and one of the symptoms of allergic rhinitis is continuous sneezing. 2. Clear your nose. A cold runny nose usually appears in the early cold, and the amount is not much.　　Allergic rhinitis, on the contrary, is accompanied by sneezing with a lot of snot. 3. Itchy nose. The main symptom of a cold nose is a long nasal congestion.　　and suffering from allergic rhinitis, nasal cavity and throat parts will be very itchy. 4. Systemic symptoms. Colds can also be accompanied by some systemic symptoms, such as systemic weakness, muscle aches and so on. Allergic rhinitis usually does not appear above symptom.