Cooking, especially Chinese cooking, is accompanied by a lot of oil smoke. If the kitchen is poorly ventilated, the oil fume will spread in the narrow space of the kitchen and invade the human respiratory tract with the air, causing diseases.
The main manifestations of "oil fume syndrome" are: loss of appetite, hunger, tasteless food, poor spirit, lethargy and general weakness. Usually, there is little diet, but the weight is gradually increasing. This is also one of the reasons why many chefs are fat and have a thick waist. Excessive exposure to oil fumes will lead to more diseases and even develop into lung cancer.
2, stomach trouble
Most chefs have a bad stomach. Because of the uncertainty of working hours, chefs often eat irregularly, irregularly or quantitatively.
In the long run, it will make the digestive system dysfunction, cause chronic gastritis, constipation, and even suffer from atrophic gastritis in severe cases.
3, varicose veins
Chef's work needs to stand for a long time or keep a posture motionless, which will make the blood circulation of lower limbs poor, lead to swelling of lower limbs and even varicose veins, and ischemic necrosis of femoral head. Even improper standing posture can easily cause lumbar spondylosis, foot pain and hyperosteogeny.
4, high temperature disease
Cooks who work continuously at high temperature are prone to dizziness, chest tightness, increased heart pressure, fatigue at work, nausea, headache, vomiting and other symptoms.
5, noise disease
According to the survey of Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, about 10% of the occupational diseases are caused by noise, which ranks first among the occupational diseases in Beijing, showing the serious harm of noise.
In the kitchen, the noise generated by various machines will also affect the health of chefs. Living in high decibel noise for a long time will not only lead to hearing loss, but also affect people's mood, intelligence, memory and learning ability, increase negative emotions, and even cause occupational deafness.
6, wrist tendon sheath cyst
Cooks may cause wrist diseases because their wrists must be grasped hard and rotated and bent.