What is Fibromyalgia?
Fibromyalgia is a chronic or long-term illness. Its symptoms are severe pain in the muscles and bones, general fatigue, and tenderness in different parts of the body.
Weathers and Fibromyalgia patients
For the patients of fibromyalgia and other such chronic diseases, weather plays a very significant role. From the chill of winter and hot of the summers, both are not friendly for the patients. They can live in moderate weather. Too cold, too hot, or rainy season affects them badly and worsen their pains and symptoms. Every patient of fibromyalgia reacts on different weathers differently. All the extreme weathers have a negative impact on the patients.
Summer weather and Fibromyalgia patients
Many people wait for summer weather as they have planned vacations and other activities. But some people including the patients of chronic illness fibromyalgia are afraid of summers. They hibernated and impatiently start the countdown for the end of the summer season. It is the need of the hour to create awareness among the patients. Tell them how summers can worsen their symptoms and how they can protect themselves.
Cause of fibromyalgia seriousness in summers
In summers due to the heat the temperature of body and muscles increases. When a patient exposed to the high heat or sunlight, he loses the water or body liquids easily. Because of this patients get dehydrated. They get tired very easily.
Humidity
Humidity also has a negative impact on fibromyalgia patients. In the air, the presence of water vapor causes humidity. It impacts the patient body because in such climate it becomes difficult for the body to cool down it also makes the heavy ambient. When it is low, the patients of fibromyalgia complained that they suffer from more headaches, widespread pain, flares, and stiffness.
Effects of summer and humidity on fibromyalgia patients
There are different researches going on to study the impact of all weathers on the patients. Few studies show that the summer and humidity worsen the few symptoms of the disease. These worsen symptoms are:
- Headaches
- Muscle pains
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Fatigues
- Dehydration
- Sleeplessness
Precautionary measures
The fibromyalgia patients need to take some precautionary measures in hot weather. It is very important for them to keep themselves safe. These precautionary measures lessen the seriousness of fibromyalgia symptoms. These safety measures are discussed under:
Drink a lot of water
The most important thing is to keep yourself hydrated. Drink a lot of water. Drink water after half an hour or an hour. It doesn’t matter that you are thirsty or not. You feel thirsty when dehydration started. It is not compulsory to drink a whole glass of water at a time. You can drink it in sips. Keep a water bottle along with you and drink water in sips after small intervals. Do not drink alcohol as it can cause you serious damage in summers. Because of Alcohol, you can lose all your body fluids. It is also recommended to not drink overly cold liquids. These cold drinks can cause you the cramping.
Keep yourself cool
You can lessen the risk of severe pain and other symptoms by keeping yourself and your surroundings cool. Sit in an air-conditioned room. Take a bath with cold water twice a day. Go for swimming. In case of muscle pain, an ice pack can also help you and can provide you relief. You can use ice packs or ice cubes to minimize the effects of hot weather.
Comfortable clothes
Wear loose, cool, thin, and comfortable clothes. It is suggested to use white or light color dresses because they do not observe the heat. While dark colors observe the heat and can cause discomfort.
Bottom Line
The body of the fibromyalgia patient is not able to adjust the body temperatures according to the weather. It causes trouble for the patients. All the extreme weathers including summer worsen the disease. It causes severe pain and discomfort for the patient. A patient makes himself hibernate to avoid sun exposer. As discussed above, by taking a few precautionary measures you can protect yourself. At the initial stage of the disease, you will feel it difficult to manage. It will become easy for you to manage this disease when you will understand it. When you will observe that which season bothers you the most it will become easy for you to protect yourself. With proper planning before starting of the summers, you will tackle the fibromyalgia effectively.
