World Osteoporosis Day, what do you know about osteoporosis?

Today is the World Osteoporosis Day. Osteoporosis is the most common bone disease in the elderly. Globally, a osteoporotic fracture occurs every 3 seconds. The International Osteoporosis Foundation survey found that 1/3 of women over 50 years of age in the world have osteoporosis fractures, and 1/5 of men over 50 years of age have osteoporotic fractures. By 2050, nearly 50 million people in China will have broken bones due to osteoporosis. So what is osteoporosis? What are the main symptoms of it? What should be done to prevent it?

What is osteoporosis?

Osteoporosis is a group of bone diseases caused by a variety of causes, bone tissue has normal calcification, calcium salt and matrix are normal proportions, in the volume of bone tissue in the reduction of the characteristics of metabolic bone lesions. In most osteoporosis, the decrease of bone tissue is mainly caused by the increase of bone resorption. Characterized by bone pain and easy fracture.

Major manifestations of osteoporosis:

The main manifestations of osteoporosis are pain, stature, and fracture. Severe bone pain can affect the elderly's daily life, diet and sleep, often make the patient's life irregular, teeth premature fall off, eat not think, painful abnormal.

The incidence of fracture is high. The most common complication of osteoporosis is fracture, a slight external force can cause fracture, such as a cough can occur rib fracture. Osteoporosis and fracture were as high as 12% in elderly people over 60 years old. Light can limit activities, the heavy must be confined to bed for a long time, causing a great burden to the society and the family.

High-risk population of osteoporosis:

Middle-aged and elderly, pregnant women and wet nurse, menopausal woman, athlete

The intake of calcium is low, not often bask in the sun, vitamin D intake is insufficient people

Heavy intake of coffee, tea, diet, smoking, alcoholism

A person with little exercise and long bed

What are the common misconceptions in osteoporosis?

1, osteoporosis is a unique phenomenon of the elderly, and young people have nothing to do.

Osteoporosis is not a "patent" for the elderly, and if young age ignores exercise, often picky eaters or dieting, diet structure is uneven, lead to dietary calcium intake, body thin, and do not reject bad habits, so that can not reach the ideal bone peak and quality, it will make osteoporosis has the opportunity to invade young people, especially young women. Therefore, the prevention of osteoporosis should begin early so as to get the ideal bone peak in young age.

2, drink bone soup can prevent osteoporosis.

Experiments have shown that the same amount of calcium in a bowl of milk is much higher than a bowl of bone soup. For the elderly, bone soup dissolves a large amount of bone fat, which can also cause other health problems. Should pay attention to the diversification of diet, less greasy, insist on drinking milk, should not eat too much protein and caffeine.

3, osteoporosis prone to fracture, should not move.

Maintaining normal bone density and bone strength requires constant exercise stimulation, and lack of exercise can result in loss of bone mass. Physical exercise has a positive effect on preventing osteoporosis. In addition, if you do not pay attention to exercise, osteoporosis, muscle strength will decrease, the stimulation of the skeleton further reduced. This will not only accelerate the development of osteoporosis, but also affect the flexibility of the joints, easy to fall, resulting in fractures.

4, the elderly treatment of osteoporosis is too late.

Many elderly people think that osteoporosis can not be reversed, to old age treatment has no effect, it is a pity to give up treatment. From the point of view of treatment, the earlier the treatment, the better the effect. Therefore, the elderly once diagnosed with osteoporosis, should receive formal treatment, reduce pain, improve the quality of life.

Prevention and treatment measures of osteoporosis:

1, the appropriate amount of calcium: experts to remind each age group of people should pay attention to calcium intake, by eating more calcium-containing food to fill calcium. Milk, bone soup, sea products and green leafy vegetables contain richer, can be absorbed by the body of calcium ions, eat more of these foods conducive to increased intake of calcium.

2, the intake of adequate protein: to ensure that people to meet the needs of the body's protein, protein is the basic unit of human tissue cells, the maintenance of bone matrix has a great role, the intake of adequate food protein can prevent osteoporosis has some help.

3, to maintain good living habits: prevention of osteoporosis to quit alcohol, alcohol and tobacco harmful substances and toxins can cause osteoblast poisoning, destruction, resulting in decreased bone mass and induce osteoporosis. Alcohol and tobacco will not only lead to osteoporosis, alcohol and tobacco hazards, the whole body of the organs must be affected.

4, to participate in appropriate physical exercise: appropriate exercise can enhance bone strength and bone mass, not only to maintain the flexibility of the body, but also to avoid the body stiffness, to a large extent to prevent the occurrence of osteoporosis.

5, at ordinary times to bask in the sun: sunlight in the ultraviolet radiation can cause a series of reactions in vivo, the formation of active vitamin D, thereby promoting calcium absorption.