What are the occupational diseases of teachers?

Teachers are one of the great professions. During the heavy and hard teaching, they have to teach and educate people while also enduring the suffering of occupational diseases. As a hard-working gardener, in addition to doing a good job of teaching and educating people, we must also think about our own health, especially preventing occupational diseases. So what are the occupational diseases of teachers? How to prevent teachers’ occupational diseases?

Occupational diseases of being a teacher

1. Chronic pharyngitis

Teachers talk loudly for a long time in class, which can easily cause vocal cord edema and congestion. In addition, long-term dust irritation can easily cause Chronic pharyngitis.

Chronic pharyngitis will make teachers often feel that their throats are dry, burning, painful and itchy, especially when they are overworked and affected by climate change. Their speaking voices will be very hoarse, and some people may even lose their voice temporarily.

In order to prevent chronic pharyngitis, teachers should:

Pay attention to throat hygiene in class. Do not speak too loudly or eagerly during class. Modify the way you speak. Change chest breathing to Abdominal breathing.

Try not to focus too much on teaching, and try to talk as little as possible after class.

Commonly used warm water and mint oral tablets to moisten the throat to stimulate saliva secretion and lubricate the throat. It is not advisable to eat too much irritating foods such as peppers and high-sugar foods such as chocolate.

In addition, a "counting breathing training method" is recommended, silently reciting "123" when inhaling, and silently reciting "4567" when exhaling. The number of numbers in the exhalation phase is greater than that in the inhalation phase. Between the numbers Evenly spaced.

2. Cervical spine pain

In addition to giving lectures in class, teachers also have to prepare lessons and correct homework outside class. They work with their heads down at their desks for long periods of time and their posture remains fixed, which can easily lead to shoulder and neck pain. .

Long-lasting pain will affect normal work and life.

Not only that, a few serious people will also suffer from cervical spondylosis, which compresses the spinal cord and damages the nerves.

In order to prevent cervical spine diseases, teachers should:

Try to avoid sitting in the same desk posture for a long time, and take a short break every hour.

Pay attention to exercising your neck muscles at ordinary times.

Put the back of your head against the wall. Hold it for a few minutes each time, then release it, and then repeat the shoulder shrug exercise.

If possible, you can enjoy shoulder and neck massage, which can expel fatigue metabolites and improve blood circulation in the neck.

Make the movement of the head in the word "rice" and avoid turning the head in circles.

First tilt your head in one direction, stay there for 5 seconds, then stand upright for 5 seconds, and then tilt your head in the next direction for 5 seconds, repeating this for 8 directions.

3. Varicose veins

When teachers stand for a long time, the blood in the veins of the lower limbs cannot flow back to the heart for a long time, and it accumulates in the veins of the legs and feet.

Legs and feet are prone to swelling, and veins like earthworms will appear on the legs. In severe cases, the legs will turn black, eczema, ulcers will appear, and even more serious.

To prevent varicose veins, teachers should:

Try to stand as little as possible. You can try the following methods during class lectures: As needed, alternately shift the body's center of gravity from one foot to the other. Always keep one foot at rest.

Try to straighten your abdomen and exhale deeply, and then turn your abdomen to exhale deeply; Tighten the muscles of your back, neck and abdomen for 30 to 40 seconds at regular intervals to keep your back straight, shoulders level, and Tighten your abdomen and maintain a good posture.

Wear low or mid-heeled shoes that support the arch of your foot.

Or wear a pair of high-elastic stockings close to your skin to protect your veins and reduce pressure.

After class or when you have nothing to do at home, apply hot water to your legs, soak your feet, and do ankle flexion and extension activities.

4. Chronic bronchitis

Teachers should use chalk to write on the blackboard when teaching.

During the writing and erasing process, dust will be caused to fly. Long-term inhalation of dust can easily cause chronic bronchitis.

Long-term and heavy teaching tasks have made smoking a refreshing agent for many teachers. However, smoking damages the bronchial mucosal epithelial tissue and seriously weakens the purification effect of the respiratory tract itself.

To prevent chronic bronchitis, teachers need to:

Rinse with salt water to help clear oropharyngeal inflammation.

Appropriately eat some traditional Chinese medicines that are beneficial to the lungs, promote fluid production, and resolve phlegm, such as lily, adenophora, Ophiopogon japonicus, almonds, Fritillaria fritillary, etc.

Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, especially mushrooms, and supplement with vitamins and carotene.

During class, you can wet the chalk before writing, and wipe the blackboard with a damp cloth.

5. Peptic ulcer

High stress, high mental tension, and irregular diet are common problems among teachers, especially graduate teachers.

Eating at irregular times, coupled with strong and continuous physical and mental tension, can easily lead to emotions such as anxiety and anger, increased gastric juice secretion, increased gastric acid and pepsin, which can damage the gastrointestinal tract and lead to ulcers.

In order to prevent peptic ulcer, teachers should do the following:

Put three meals a day on the agenda. You must eat at regular intervals and eat more protein and vitamins. 'Food.

Eat less food that is too cold, too hot, too sweet, or too salty. Eat less food that easily produces acid, such as sweet potatoes, or food that produces gas, such as raw onions and white radish.

The most important thing is to relax, avoid overexertion, and do more exercise to keep yourself happy at all times.

6. Psychological disorders

Nowadays, teachers’ psychological problems are becoming more and more common, and high stress is the main factor affecting teachers’ mental health.

In addition to making fundamental reforms in the education system and transforming exam-oriented education into real quality education, the most important thing is to care about the mental health of teachers, popularize mental health knowledge among teachers, and teach them how to vent their unhealthy behaviors. Emotional approach.

To prevent psychological problems, teachers should:

Improve their psychological quality, pay attention to the balance between work and rest, and participate in activities that alternate between body and brain, movement and stillness, such as table tennis and badminton.

Appreciate more music, theatrical performances, and art works.

Some young teachers’ growth paths have been relatively flat and smooth before, so their psychological ability to withstand setbacks and failures is relatively fragile, so they need a certain amount of courage and preparation to face difficulties and challenges.

In your spare time, you can participate in mountain climbing, long-distance running, swimming, obstacle running, cross-country running, chess and Go games, and consciously exercise your will.

Relevant survey data show that 70% of teachers are in a sub-healthy state, and high-intensity work has caused considerable physical and psychological pressure on teachers, leading to the emergence of occupational diseases among teachers.

Here I would like to remind every teacher: Eat a reasonable diet, exercise moderately, live an active life, let yourself go, pay attention to your physical health, stay away from sub-health, and say goodbye to occupational diseases.

Dietary therapy methods for teachers’ occupational diseases

For teachers who often use their throats, in order to protect their throats, in addition to drinking more water, they can also eat more heat-clearing and detoxifying foods, such as Pumpkin, loofah, celery, lotus root, olives, pear, black plum, lotus seed heart, etc. Try to eat less irritating foods such as peppers and garlic, avoid fried and fried foods, try to quit smoking and alcohol, and develop a healthy lifestyle.

In order to better resist the harm of dust to the throat, teachers can also use some anti-dust foods. In their daily meals, they can increase the consumption of carrots, papayas, pumpkins, broccoli, spinach, nectarines and Xingzi et al.

Because the above foods contain more beta-carotene.

β-Carotene is an antioxidant, has antioxidant effects, and can prevent the occurrence of pneumoconiosis. Foods that can remove dust can also be eaten in moderation, such as black fungus and pig blood. Food can remove dust from the gastrointestinal tract, thereby preventing dust from harming the digestive tract.

In addition, since teachers are mental workers, and mental work consumes a lot of energy, teachers should appropriately supplement foods rich in amino acids, such as fish, milk and other protein foods, to ensure that teachers Energetic and improve thinking ability, phospholipid-containing foods such as egg yolks, soybeans, carrots, fish, meat, etc. can enhance teachers' brain activity and improve work efficiency.

In view of the current situation that teachers need to stand for long periods of time to give lectures, teachers can eat more foods rich in vitamin C, such as fruits, vegetables and beans, to eliminate fatigue.

Sub-health diseases may occur in the teaching profession, so everyone needs to pay attention to comprehensive conditioning, drink more water, and protect their own throats. In daily life, everyone needs to pay attention to reasonable health care, and in daily life, everyone It is necessary to pay attention to comprehensive conditioning to avoid harming the waist and kidney function, and pay attention to the adjustment method, which is good for the body.