When it comes to hypertension, in the past, many people thought it was a disease for the elderly, but now with the improvement of living standards and the change of various living habits, hypertension gradually tends to be younger.
Hypertension does great harm to the body. Long term high blood pressure will cause dizziness, headache, tinnitus, fatigue, insomnia, palpitation and other manifestations, which will seriously affect the quality of life.
It will even lead to cerebrovascular sclerosis, cerebral infarction and intracerebral hemorrhage. In addition, patients will have physical activity disorders, unclear speech, and even paralysis.
After suffering from hypertension, it is inevitable to take antihypertensive drugs. Food and drugs sometimes complement each other. Food will affect the efficacy of drugs. Eating wrong will affect the therapeutic effect.
What are the precautions when taking antihypertensive drugs?
Do not change the dose by yourself
When taking antihypertensive drugs, we should take drugs quantitatively according to the doctor's instructions. We can't change the dose by ourselves. Some patients with hypertension will reduce their blood pressure by themselves if they find that their blood pressure is stable after taking drugs for a period of time. This is wrong.
If you want to stabilize blood pressure and avoid the occurrence of vascular diseases, you should take antihypertensive drugs according to the amount. If you stop taking drugs or reduce the amount without permission, your blood pressure will fluctuate greatly and it will be difficult to fall.
Do not arbitrarily change drugs
Patients with hypertension should not take antihypertensive drugs indiscriminately, nor should they eat some antihypertensive drugs. Frequent drug replacement or indiscriminate medication will not have the effect of antihypertensive, and may form drug resistance. Even after taking antihypertensive drugs, blood pressure will still rise.
Most antihypertensive drugs will cause certain harm to the kidney, so indiscriminate use of antihypertensive drugs will cause greater damage to renal function, and even cause chronic renal failure.
When taking antihypertensive drugs, do not take them with milk
Some patients with hypertension take antihypertensive drugs with milk when drinking milk. This practice is wrong, because taking antihypertensive drugs with milk will not only increase blood pressure, but also contain tyramine in milk, which may increase blood pressure due to the decomposition of ammonia.
All dairy products cannot be taken with antihypertensive drugs. If you want to drink milk, you can drink it half an hour after taking the medicine.
After eating antihypertensive drugs, it is recommended to eat less 4 kinds of food. Don't take it seriously
1. Foods with high sodium ion content
Pickled foods, chrysanthemum, celery and fennel all contain high sodium ions. Patients with hypertension should eat less foods with high sodium ions.
Eating a little occasionally will not have a great impact on blood pressure, but eating it often will lead to the imbalance of sodium and potassium in the human body and induce arteriosclerosis. Therefore, after eating antihypertensive drugs, eat less food containing sodium ions, which is helpful to control blood pressure.
2. High fat food
If you often eat high-fat food, there will be some hidden dangers to your health, such as meat, chocolate, fructose, etc. These foods contain high fat.
After eating antihypertensive drugs, you should eat less high-fat food, otherwise it will not only make the body fat quickly, but also induce the continuous rise of blood pressure, which is very unfavorable to your health.
3. Irritant food
Irritant food, including hot pot, pepper and other spicy food, as well as coffee, strong tea and other excitable drinks. Drinking coffee, strong tea and other drinks will lead to nerve excitement in the body, increase the power of blood supply to the heart, stimulate vasoconstriction and increase blood pressure.
Don't eat these irritating foods after taking antihypertensive drugs, otherwise it will affect the efficacy. Patients with hypertension should eat less of these foods at ordinary times, because eating will lead to changes in blood pressure and complications.
4. Orange
Oranges are rich in vitamin C. eating oranges can play a role in beauty. But oranges contain more potassium, which will be mutually exclusive with antihypertensive drugs.
If you eat oranges after taking antihypertensive drugs, your blood pressure will become very low and cause great harm to your body, so pay attention as much as possible.
How to prevent hypertension?
Blood pressure is measured regularly
Whether patients with hypertension or healthy people, we should develop the good habit of measuring blood pressure regularly. Blood pressure does not rise in a day or two.
If the blood pressure is found to rise, it is necessary to timely curb the development process of hypertension and truly prevent hypertension. It is best to prepare an instrument for measuring blood pressure at home. Monitoring blood pressure will be more convenient.
Healthy diet
To prevent hypertension, we should adhere to a low salt diet, control salt powder when cooking, and pay attention to invisible salt. And eat less pickled food.
Choose a healthy lifestyle
Try to choose a healthy lifestyle, don't do things that will raise blood pressure, correct those bad living habits as soon as possible, and quit smoking, drinking and staying up late.