Preventing rhinitis requires a coordinated approach to clothing, diet, daily routines, and living environment

External factors such as cold and heat, dust, and so on, when they arise or are applied improperly, can cause illness in some people. Those with allergic constitutions, those with weak bodies, children, the elderly, as well as common and individual factors such as smoking and excessive drinking, can all easily trigger illnesses such as colds and rhinitis. Therefore, in prevention, just as in treatment, it is necessary to differentiate by type according to the symptoms and suit the individual's objective condition. There are also great differences between common and individual factors here, and on the whole, common preventive measures are more practical.

Preventing cooking fumes

Whether diseases such as rhinitis manifest as cold syndromes or heat syndromes, there are differences in the body's innate cold-heat endowment, as well as distinctions of cold and heat from external contraction, diet, and so on. To prevent illness, it is necessary to balance the body's internal and external aspects, cold and heat, and all other aspects and factors. For example, people with excessive internal heat can also suppress it by eating more cold and cool foods. However, yin-yang and cold-heat are like the cycle of the four seasons; one cannot persistently favor cold or heat over the long term, otherwise even a cold-type constitution can transform into a fire-type constitution, and losing balance makes illness likely.

For the prevention of rhinitis, for patients with allergic constitutions or a family history of rhinitis and similar conditions, eliminating allergic pathogens is the greatest preventive measure. For patients with general rhinitis, based on one's own constitution and the objective conditions of life and work, the first step is to quit smoking and quit drinking, and then correspondingly eat less cold and cool food, fried food, allergy-causing food, and food with additives, eat more natural food, breathe more fresh air, and so on.

Rhinitis perplexities

Rhinitis of a cold constitution, also called deficiency-cold constitution, mostly arises from catching a chill or from long-term consumption of cold-natured food and so on, without balancing one's state well. Therefore, in prevention, those with a cold constitution should eat more warm-natured food and live more in warm environments, otherwise it is easy to damage the yang qi of the spleen and stomach, causing the body's internal qi movement to become unsmooth and leading to illness. Fried food is not suitable for excessive consumption by either cold or heat constitutions, because fried food is hard to digest, especially for the weak, the elderly, and young children, and it can impair bodily functions and cause illness. In addition, foods, vegetables, and fruits that have been treated with pesticides, or that use additives or growth promoters, are also not suitable to eat in large amounts, and so on.