Beat the Winter Blues as the Season Changes

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It has been a common knowledge that sudden change in weather condition and barometric pressure can greatly affect your physical condition, which is true. Some people feel feverish or catch cold. Others may experience ringing in the ears, listlessness, upset stomach, nausea, and so on. These are all believed to occur due to the changing of atmospheric pressure as well as weather or climate changes.

Common Health Problems that Occur Due to Weather Changes
1. Fatigue
2. Cold or Fever
3. Skin Irritation : skin rashes caused by dry, cold weather
4. Loss of appetite : happens especially during hot weather.
5. Cough : Try to keep your house clean and free from dust as often as possible to remove the allergens. Avoiding eating strong spicy foods is a good idea, too.

Why Does a Sudden Change in Weather Affect Your Health?

1. Sudden change in temperature, such as going from hot environment to a very cold environment, will weaken your resistance, simply because your body tries to re-balance itself more quickly than usual.

2. Changes in barometric pressure, humidity and wind direction are also factors that can affect your nervous system, cardiovascular system, and endocrine system.

3. People experience many 'physiological' changes that are being continuously altered by the weather or climate. A changing weather can stress out your immune system, making you more vulnerable to infections and viruses. This is why I often see people easily get ill during a seasonal change.

How You Can Prevent Weather-Related Illnesses

1. Boost your immune system - Simply put, a healthy and well-balanced person is seldom sensitive to a sudden weather change. If you are a healthy and strong person, you can actually endure the stress caused by weather changes and not show any signs of discomfort or sickness.

2. Take vitamin C - Vitamin C is definitely an immune system booster. It is also effective in the prevention of colds and flu, or to quickly recover from an illness. Because vitamin C is water soluble, it enters the bloodstream directly and your kidneys can excrete the excess vitamin when needed. Vitamin C and other water-soluble vitamins are not stored in the body so you need to replenish it continuously.

3. Steam Inhalation- For cold, steam inhalation is the best home remedy. Add eucalyptus oil to the hot water that you will use for steam inhalation, it will give an instant relief.

4. Gargle- Apart from gargling to cure sore throat, one can add few drops of ghee and pinch of salt to hot glass of water and drink it. This one is very effective for getting rid of cough

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