As the saying goes, "the disease enters from the mouth". In order to avoid the complications of hypertension, in addition to drug adjuvant therapy, it is necessary to maintain healthy and reasonable eating habits, so as to better stabilize blood pressure.
Although antihypertensive drugs can help stabilize blood pressure levels, they are toxic in three ways. Long-term use can easily bring a series of side effects to the body, damage blood vessel health and affect heart rate stability. Therefore, for the sake of good health, patients with hypertension must pay attention to the abnormal changes of their bodies after taking antihypertensive drugs for a long time, which may be the side effects of taking antihypertensive drugs for a long time, and should be found early and treated early.
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Doctor's tip: People who take antihypertensive drugs for a long time should pay more attention to these three changes, and don't be careless.
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Renal dysfunction
Chinese medicine believes that "kidney is the foundation of congenital". After the drug enters the human body, it needs to be filtered by the kidney. Harmful substances are dissolved in urine and excreted through urination. If you take antihypertensive drugs for a long time, your kidneys will suffer a certain degree of loss. There are many diuretics in antihypertensive drugs, and the kidneys will deteriorate after long-term use.
Dizziness, weakness of limbs
Dizziness and limb fatigue often occur in the early stage of taking medicine. After antihypertensive drugs, blood pressure drops faster. The body that used to adapt to hypertension can't adapt to the rapid drop of blood pressure at once, and there are symptoms of dizziness and limb weakness. Most of these symptoms will disappear in about two weeks.
After taking diuretic antihypertensive drugs, you will find that the number of urination increases significantly. Hypertensive patients worry that drinking too much water will lead to an increase in blood pressure, so they can't replenish water in time. Coupled with excessive diet control, resulting in insufficient nutrition. They need to drink more water and eat more fresh vegetables and fruits in peacetime. These discomforts may disappear soon.
Abnormal increase of blood sugar and blood lipid
Some hypertensive patients originally only had blood pressure levels exceeding the standard, and their blood sugar and blood lipid levels were stable. However, after taking antihypertensive drugs for a period of time, when I went to the hospital for physical examination, I found that my blood sugar and blood lipid levels were abnormally elevated, which frightened the hypertensive patients.
The occurrence of hypertension is positively correlated with metabolic abnormalities. Taking antihypertensive drugs can cause abnormal glucose tolerance, and the level of blood sugar and blood lipid is obviously increased, which can be effectively controlled by intervention measures such as diet control and exercise. Diabetic patients can choose other kinds of antihypertensive drugs according to their blood sugar control.
To sum up, antihypertensive drugs do bring a series of adverse reactions to the body during taking, but you can choose antihypertensive drugs that suit you according to your condition and tolerance to minimize adverse reactions.
In fact, the most serious adverse reaction of hypertension is that blood pressure is not well controlled. The side effects of taking antihypertensive drugs can be ignored in the face of adverse reactions.
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Patients with hypertension should avoid eating these foods if they want to avoid high blood pressure.
Spicy food
Onion, ginger, garlic and other foods are spicy and irritating. Eating these foods in moderation at ordinary times can speed up metabolism, excrete excess water in the body as soon as possible and prevent body edema.
Patients with hypertension can't eat spicy food, and they will be constipated seriously. Poor defecation will lead to an increase in abdominal pressure and a continuous increase in blood pressure. Patients with hypertension must strictly avoid spicy food.
High calorie food
Most patients with hypertension are obese and have the characteristics of obesity. Long-term consumption of high-calorie foods such as high oil and sugar is not conducive to stabilizing blood pressure. Therefore, patients with hypertension should reduce the intake of high-calorie foods, including hamburgers, chicken chops and fried chicken. And control your daily calories within a reasonable range, which is conducive to maintaining the stability of blood pressure level.
Strong tea, coffee
People in China generally like to drink tea. They call tea "health tea" and think that drinking tea can preserve health and lower blood pressure. In fact, strong tea contains a lot of theophylline, which easily stimulates sympathetic nerves, leading to excessive excitement and decreased sleep quality. Therefore, patients with hypertension should avoid drinking strong tea.
Coffee contains a lot of caffeine, which increases the burden of blood vessel operation and leads to high blood pressure. Patients with hypertension can't drink coffee often. Healthy adults should drink about 1500~2500 ml of water every day, mainly plain water or light soup, and try not to drink strong tea and coffee.
In addition to medication, patients with hypertension can also take a series of measures in diet. Some foods should be eaten less, and we should also develop a lifestyle of exercise and diet control, so as to control high blood pressure and restore health as soon as possible.