The 'root' of high blood pressure has been found, not only alcohol, but 3 kinds of food are taken off the table as soon as possible
Speaking of high blood pressure, I believe everyone is familiar with it, and there are more and more high blood pressure patients nowadays, there are about 300 million high blood pressure patients, and China has become a big country with high blood pressure.
However, many people still know very little about high blood pressure, which has led to an increase in the disability rate, morbidity rate, and mortality rate of high blood pressure. Hypertension has a great impact on health, so don't take it lightly.
Nowadays, whether it is a party or a business meeting, drinking is indispensable, but alcohol is particularly harmful to hypertensive patients. Studies have shown that when hypertensive patients drink alcohol, their blood pressure will rise accordingly.
In addition, the stroke mortality rate of hypertensive patients who drink heavily is several times higher than that of non-drinkers. Therefore, hypertensive patients should drink a small amount of alcohol, and it is best not to drink at all.
Studies have found that the daily alcohol consumption of hypertensive patients should be within 25ml.
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Symptom 1: Tinnitus
Many hypertensive patients will experience tinnitus. This is because the increase in blood pressure will affect the patient's arteries. Over time, it will cause damage to the nerves in the ear, and tinnitus will occur at this time.
Although tinnitus is not painful, it can affect people's emotions. If the ears are buzzing all the time, it is easy to lose your temper. When tinnitus occurs, many people will not associate it with high blood pressure. It is recommended to measure blood pressure frequently.
Symptom 2: Dizziness
Healthy people rarely experience dizziness for no reason, but patients with high blood pressure are prone to dizziness, because high blood pressure can cause excessive fluctuations in blood pressure, and patients can easily feel dizzy at this time.
And there is a heavy feeling in the head, if it is not treated in time, it will easily affect people's learning ability and work efficiency.
Symptom 3: Numbness in hands and feet
Some hypertensive patients often feel numbness in their hands and feet, more common in toes and fingers. In severe cases, they cannot control their fingers and cannot move normally.
In addition, hypertensive patients sometimes feel sore neck, these reasons are inseparable from blood pressure fluctuations, caused by sensory nerve damage.
Symptom 4: Insomnia
Most people with high blood pressure have sleep disorders, and are prone to nightmares, difficulty falling asleep, etc., which may be caused by elevated blood pressure.
Elevated blood pressure will affect the function of the cerebral cortex, which may lead to loss of control of the human autonomic nervous system, causing difficulty falling asleep, waking up in the middle of the night and other symptoms.
- Salt food
Salt is an indispensable seasoning in cooking, but the main ingredient in table salt is sodium chloride. After sodium chloride enters the human body, it is easy to deposit in blood vessels, and this substance will cause extracellular fluid to increase, resulting in Increased blood pressure fluctuations.
The more common salty foods in life include: canned food, sausages, pickled foods, etc., try to reduce the intake of these foods.
- Spicy food
Nowadays, many people eat "no spicy food, no joy". There is a saying that eating chili can reduce the moisture in the body. Although this statement is not wrong, spicy and stimulating food is very unfriendly to hypertensive patients.
If you eat too much pepper, you will easily get angry, increase the pressure on the stomach, and cause difficulty in defecation, dry stool, constipation, etc. At this time, the patient's defecation force will increase, causing the pressure in the abdominal cavity to increase, and the blood pressure will also increase with the pressure in the abdominal cavity increased.
- High-calorie food
According to the data, many hypertensive patients are obese people, and the reason for obesity is that they don’t taboo in daily life and stuff everything into their mouths. This will not only aggravate the body’s obesity, but also increase blood pressure. high.
Common high-calorie foods include: chocolate, cake, milk tea, puffed food, etc. Frequent eating of these things is not good for the body.
It is recommended to eat more low-fat, low-calorie foods to prevent the occurrence of hypertensive diseases.
- Drink more water
Drinking water is very helpful in lowering blood pressure, especially when you get up early, drinking a glass of water on an empty stomach is the best. If you can add some small plants in the water that can help stabilize blood pressure, the effect will be even better.
Chrysanthemum: stabilize blood pressure, reduce blood viscosity;
Semen Cassiae: Lowers triglycerides in the body and effectively lowers blood pressure;
Honeysuckle: improve microcirculation in the body, reduce blood pressure fluctuations;
Mix these 3 kinds of plants together with sweet-scented osmanthus and burdock root into tea bags, brew them in hot water, and have a good auxiliary effect on lowering blood pressure.
[If you are afraid that you can’t master the proportion of your own matching, you might as well try the same tea bag ↓↓↓, and your blood pressure will drop a little bit]
- Do more exercise
Regular exercise has a good effect on improving blood pressure, but it is also necessary to master the exercise intensity and avoid excessive exercise.
You can often walk briskly, this kind of exercise will not increase the pressure on the blood vessels, and is suitable for people of all ages.
Brisk walking pays attention to exercise posture. When walking, keep your body straight and don’t bend your back. The swing range of your arms can be increased and the speed should be even. It is recommended to walk between 90 and 120 steps per minute. .