There are four short-lived things people often do on their way to work. How many of them have you done?

Many office workers choose to take breakfast with them and eat it while walking because of time constraints. However, they do not know that this way of eating breakfast will cause trouble to the stomach and intestines. In addition to this, things like looking at mobile phones on the road, taking naps in the car, etc. are also harmful to health on the way to work. Let's see how to correct it.

Eating while walking puts a heavy burden on the gastrointestinal tract

I bought some breakfast on the roadside and ate it as I walked, and I had almost finished eating by the time I got to work. This seemingly time-saving breakfast can cause trouble to the gastrointestinal tract.

Qiu Baoan, director of the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery at the Navy General Hospital, often tells young people when he sees them that gastrointestinal diseases are a cumulative process. You may think that eating such breakfast a few times a week is nothing, but in the long run, the burden on the gastrointestinal tract will be considerable.

Because when you eat while walking, cold wind and dust will directly enter your mouth and affect the secretion of saliva. At the same time, blood flows to the limbs and very little enters the digestive system. This puts a heavy burden on the gastrointestinal tract, leading to functional disorders and inducing functional diseases such as intestinal polyps.

Breakfast should be eaten slowly to help the digestive tract. It is best to take ten minutes in the morning to drink a cup of warm drink, such as warm water, soy milk, milk, etc., to help the gastrointestinal tract "wake up" and facilitate the digestion of food.

Looking at the phone is the most tiring for the eyes

"On the way to work, on the bus or subway, if you look up, you will see that more than half of the people are playing with their mobile phones," said Tao Hai, director of the Ophthalmology and Lacrimal Disease Center of the General Hospital of the Armed Police Force. When you stare at a shaking screen with small fonts and inaccurate focus, you have to keep adjusting, which artificially increases the burden on your eyes. Maybe you don't feel it, you can test it yourself. If you suddenly look up and look into the distance, your vision will be blurred for one to two seconds, and then you can see clearly. This is visual fatigue. When your eyes become red and uncomfortable, it means that the condition has worsened.

Office workers have to stare at the computer as soon as they arrive at the office, but in fact they should reduce the burden on their eyes on the way to work. If you take the bus, you might as well look at the scenery outside the window. The trees are sprouting in early spring, and the light green is very good for the eyes. You can roll your eyes and blink while riding the subway.

Wearing the mask incorrectly can easily cause throat infection

Sun Shuchen, chief physician of the Department of Otolaryngology at Guang'anmen Hospital of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, has also found in the outpatient clinic that many office workers have come to see him for pharyngitis recently, which is also related to the environment on their way to work.

Because of the recent changeable weather, the flowers are in bloom and the pollen concentration is high. This is a high incidence period for respiratory diseases and pharyngitis, and the polluted air makes the situation even worse. For office workers, the enclosed subway cars are actually a disaster area for air pollution. During rush hour, they are so crowded that people are almost breathing face to face. Add to that the smell of sweat and body odor, and the air is unbreathable.

To deal with smog weather, many people will wear masks. This is also a good way to take the subway. The mask must be worn properly, especially the nose wings. If it is loose, polluted air will still penetrate into the nasal cavity and pharynx, making it susceptible to infection.

In addition, Dr. Sun Shuchen was very anxious when he saw that most people in the subway "didn't know how to cough". In fact, this is one of the important links in preventing respiratory and pharyngeal infections. If you feel your throat is dry and itchy in a crowded place such as a subway and want to cough or clear your throat, be sure to block it with your elbow to prevent the exhaled bacteria from spraying onto other people's faces.

Taking a nap in the car can easily cause cervical injury

"If the car is traveling at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour and encounters an emergency brake, the force on the cervical spine will reach more than 30 kilograms. Although it may not seem large, it is enough to destroy the fragile cervical spine." Mr. Mao, a physics teacher at Hangzhou Xuejun Middle School, gave this analogy when he was interviewed by local media.

If you take a nap in the car on your way to work and encounter sudden situations such as car shaking or sudden braking, your muscles will be tense when you are awake and you can react immediately. But when you are half asleep, the muscles around the cervical spine are completely relaxed. Especially when the car is going at a high speed, the neck and head are swung out like a whip, and the cervical spine can easily be dislocated. There is a medical term for this kind of injury called "whiplash injury."

Even if you feel sleepy, you must insist on not falling asleep in the car. Move your body, yawn, think about today's work and what delicious food to eat in the evening. In short, keep your brain working. Spring sleepiness is caused by temporary lack of oxygen to the brain. Taking deep breaths on the balcony, stretching your arms and kicking your legs before going to work are good ways to increase oxygen supply to the brain.