Youth heart attacks and oncology. What diseases will come to Ukraine after the war
Threats of life, loss of relatives and housing, blackouts and other wanderings increase the risk of cardiovascular disease: heart attacks and strokes will be more common among young people. Equally important are psychological problems. In August 2022, Minister Viktor Lyashko said that 15 million people would need a psychiatrist or psychotherapist.
The spread of diseases is facilitated by limited access to quality medicine: many hospitals are destroyed by Russian rockets, and in rural areas people are forced to go to district or regional centers for examination. Residents of big cities also do not hurry to spend money on medical diagnostics: screening, ultrasound and tests are clearly not prioritized in most Ukrainians in wartime.
Epidemiologists assure that new diseases in Ukraine during and after the war should not be expected, but more health problems will take place. The exception will be the emergence of a new pandemic - a monkey smallpox, which is actively promoted by the world media, the chief physician of the medical center "Biosex" Taras Zhiravetsky. Exacerbation of cardiovascular disease due to permanent stress, according to the doctor, will be the first among the health of the population.
Prolonged stress causes excess cortisol, which threatens problems with the nervous, endocrine and cardiovascular systems. It will worsen the state of affairs and the fact that before the war in Ukraine there was a rapid incidence of coronavirus, he says. "An acute response to stress through rockets, bombs and" Shahmed "will cause delayed heart attacks or strokes. Pressure jump and subsequent problems will manifest over time. The most people's immune system works incorrect .
Psychiatrists, according to Zhiravetsky, will quickly get regular customers. People lose their relatives, acquaintances, housing, injure or go to other countries in search of a better life. All these events do not definitely improve the mental state, explains the specialist. For the sake of maintaining mental health, a specialist advises to maintain a relaxed condition as far as possible.
Stress in the brain and in the body disrupts blood circulation, which affects all physical and mental processes. In this field it is important to adhere to information hygiene - frequent reading of news is anxiety. Post -war Ukraine will face an increase in the number of cases of diseases associated with lack of access to clean water. Bacterial poisoning is threatened by residents of areas where there are problems with water and electricity.
It is primarily about cholera, hepatitis and botulism outbreaks. Acute infectious diseases of the gastrointestinal tract are associated with the inability to process water qualitatively for centralized water supply systems. Spoiled foods cause food poisoning, but doctors successfully use detox therapy, which saves 90% of life, explains Taras Zhiravetsky. Different addictions, including alcoholic and narcotic, also destroy health.
The doctor focuses on cheap alcoholic beverages - the population has an affordable way to temporarily relieve stress. "Strong alcohol is a kind of drug, but the result is guaranteed in the form of cirrhosis," Zhiravetsky notes. A separate layer of problems concerns the health of the military involved in hostilities. Injuries and injuries do not go away without trace, physical rehabilitation is needed both in the wounded and those who have lost their limbs.
The trench lifestyle is extremely harmful to the musculoskeletal system. The military often suffers from lumboishalgia, spine disease because of wearing a bulletproof vest, ammunition and other burdens. Improper distribution of weight of the equipment destroys the joints. The use of energy drinks in large quantities affects the digestive system, many fighters suffer from acute gastritis and duodenal ulcers.
Often, energy drinks are combined with painkillers, which in themselves adversely affect the mucous membrane of a healthy person. Oncological diseases characteristic of pre -war Ukraine will not disappear anywhere. Peaceful cities are undergoing regular rocket attacks and bombardment, built in the 1950s, residential buildings are destroyed, and asbestos were mostly used for their insulation. Strong carcinogen enters the air and soil, but even more dangerous when it is in the lungs.
Residents of Donbass, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions, where there were large-scale destruction, will feel all the consequences first, explains the focus of the oncologist of the first qualification category Andriy Gardashnikov. "The ecological environment and before the war was not the best. As for the effects of hostilities, the emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere have increased and increased cancer.
But the obvious evidence of the impact of emotional state on the splash of cancer has not been proven. Long -term prognosis for the development of cancer can be done. " Says a specialist. In the history of the twentieth century there were different examples of the influence of wars on human health. After the war in Iraq, cancer mortality in the areas of intense bombardment increased by 50%.
In the first three years after the end of the war, doctors often diagnosed patients: breast cancer, cervix, lungs, bronchi, bladder, skin, stomach, testicles and leukemia. And in Yugoslavia, 13 years after the war, the incidence of breast cancer increased from 68 to 80 cases per 100 thousand people. We will remind, in Ukraine the magnetic storms are forecast in November, which will affect the well -being of people. A powerful red level storm is expected closer to the end of the month.