Elderly Health Network

The core function of "Senior Health Network" is to provide middle-aged and elderly friends with a health information platform that is free of rumors, promotions, and can be implemented directly. There is no need to guess right or wrong in the various health care contents. If you follow the instructions, you will get less sick and avoid pitfalls.

Last week, Aunt Zhang downstairs came to our office with her cell phone in hand to express her gratitude. A while ago, she posted a short video message saying that "eating onions can replace antihypertensive drugs." She secretly stopped taking the medicine for half a month, fell dizzy and fell in the vegetable market, and was sent to the hospital by passers-by. Later, her daughter saved our website to her mobile phone desktop. Now she scans it for ten minutes every day before cooking. She recently followed the salt control tips and went to the community to measure her blood pressure last week. It was already stable at 130/80. Don't tell me, our backend receives more than a dozen similar requests for help every month. Either they believed in "eating mung beans to cure diabetes" and stopped taking the medicine without permission, or they spent thousands to buy a massager that can "open blood vessels", but the money was wasted and the condition was delayed.

We have been running this website for almost 7 years. Three of the team members have medical licenses. The rest of the editors have elderly people over 80 years old at home. When selecting content, the first reaction is "Will my parents step into this trap?" ”. Take calcium supplementation, which the elderly are most concerned about, as an example. There have always been two different views in this field: Doctors with traditional clinical orientation generally believe that people over 60 years old, regardless of whether they have backache or leg pain, should supplement 800-1000mg of calcium every day, combined with vitamin D to reduce the risk of osteoporosis. ； However, experts in the field of functional medicine will also remind that elderly people with high blood calcium concentrations and a history of kidney stones cannot blindly take supplements. It is best to check the 25-hydroxyvitamin D and urinary calcium levels before deciding whether to take supplements and how much. We won’t just pick one theory and push it to everyone. Both viewpoints will be presented. A simple self-assessment form is also attached. You can choose based on your own physical condition. You don’t need to be biased by extreme statements such as “must take supplements” or “supplements will be harmful”.

Oh, by the way, many merchants came to us to advertise health products. The prices were really high, so we rejected them without even thinking about it. To be honest, half of the parents in the team have suffered from fake health products. My mother spent more than 3,000 in the past two years to buy energy insoles that are said to be able to "cure arthritis." After wearing them for half a month, her feet were even worn out, but they were not healed. So we made a rule on the first day we built the website: the entire site will not accept any advertisements for health products or physical therapy devices. All content is purely popular science. If you need to buy any medicine or nutritional supplements, we will only tell you how to check the official batch number and how to choose the specifications that suit you. We will never give you a purchase link. This has not changed until now.

Many people have given us opinions, asking why your science popularization is not as "high-end" as other platforms? Hi, it’s not that I can’t write. I posted a dietary guide written in professional terms before, and an old man in the background left a message saying, “I graduated from elementary school, and I read it three times and I still don’t know what you are talking about.” Since then, all our content has been required to be "understandable by even the elderly with primary school education." When it comes to salt control for high blood pressure, we don't say "daily sodium intake is less than 2g." Instead, we say "the amount of salt in a beer cap is the total amount you can eat in a day, and the salt in pickles, soybean curd, and ham sausages must be included."” ； When it comes to preventing falls, here are some real-life pictures of Grandma Wang’s house in the community: the bathroom has been replaced with a non-slip mat with suction cups, and a 15-centimeter-high shoe-changing stool is placed at the door, so there is no need to bend down to put on shoes. These are real life experiences and are much more useful than dry theories.

Recently, we have just updated the special topic on winter respiratory disease care. There is also a practical video recorded by a respiratory doctor on back patting and phlegm elimination. Elderly people at home with severe coughs can follow the video. If there is anything you want to know, just leave a message in the background and we will find the corresponding doctor to explain it to you, which is much more reliable than the baseless health care jokes you read.