4 February 2009

Not to take medicines to lower blood pressure approach

Some of the solutions can not take medicine for high blood pressure patients to enable them to reduce blood pressure, especially for a blood pressure (high pressure below 159mmHg, and or low pressure less than 99mmHg) crowd. Hypertension is a need of long-term adherence to treatment of disease, whether drug treatment, or non-drug therapy (ie: no drug approach). Non-pharmacological treatment of hypertension in the course of treatment, plays an important role, and can not be of. Specific measures to improve the way of life, is not conducive to the elimination of psychological and physical health behaviors and habits, in order to achieve decreased hypertension process purposes.



The specific content including:



1. To improve the way: the adjustment of unhealthy living habits, and maintain the laws of work and rest time, not easy to disrupt their biological clock, so as to prevent the mental state of their own long-term in a highly tense environment, to maintain psychological balance, to reduce the incidence of hypertension opportunities.



2. Adhere to aerobic exercise: study shows that long-term aerobic exercise is conducive to lowering blood pressure. Hypertensive patients before the campaign according to their own physical condition, select the campaign type, intensity, and frequency. Common movement walking, jogging, cycling, swimming, tai chi and so on. Exercise intensity during exercise generally refers to the largest increase in heart rate reached the age of 180 (or by the formula 170 - age × 0.8) being good, especially the elderly should pay even more attention. Require accurate maximum heart rate by 60% ~ 85% as a suitable heart rate movements. The best of each movement of young and middle-aged heart rate should be more than 120 times / min. Weekly sports 3 to 5 times, each time for 30 ~ 60 minutes better.







3. Weight loss: It is recommended that body mass index (BMI, kg/M2) should be controlled below 24. On the one hand, the method of weight loss is to reduce the total calorie intake, less fat and stressed that many restrictions on carbohydrate intake, on the other hand need to increase physical activity. The rate of weight loss can vary from person to person, but the first time to achieve the best weight loss reduce the weight loss of 5 kg in order to enhance confidence in the future, based on subjective symptoms and related indicators has decided to further speed the weight loss and goals.



4. To quit smoking: Nicotine can increase blood pressure, lower medication compliance and to increase the dose of antihypertensive drugs, we will increase the blood pressure on vascular and target organ damage.



5. Limited wine: statistical results suggest that a small amount of alcohol may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease. However, alcohol consumption and elevated blood pressure and hypertension prevalence between the obvious positive correlation. Therefore stressed the limitations of coronary heart disease alcohol consumption, but hypertensive patients or should it be alcohol. (Male daily alcohol consumption should be less than 20 ~ 30g, women should be less than 10 ~ 15g.)



6. A reasonable diet: According to China's situation to improve the diet to prevent high blood pressure makes the following recommendations:

(1) limit salt: study shows that the incidence of hypertension and related to excessive sodium intake. WHO recommended sodium intake per person <6g. People like eating high-salt diet, 80% of the sodium salt or salt from the cooking of food products with high salt. Therefore, salt restriction work a long way to go.

(2) a change in diet: to reduce high-fat food, increasing the proportion of high-quality protein. Such as reducing the pork, poultry and fish food to increase. At the same time pay attention to supplementary potassium, high calcium food. If绿叶菜, milk, beans and other products.

(3) Eat more vegetables and fruits: study shows increased intake of vegetables or fruits (especially celery and white gourd to reduce fat intake, such as high pressure and low pressure can decrease. May be associated with fruits, vegetables, dietary fiber and low fat integrated role.

Mody your normal blood pressure?

Hypertension is a serious impact on people's health and quality of life in common, frequently-occurring disease, is caused by coronary heart disease, stroke, kidney failure the most dangerous factor. China currently has 160 million hypertensive patients, the danger is that some hypertensive patients, even if suffering from high blood pressure for years, and even high blood pressure, still do not feel sick. A considerable part of people's blood pressure is a medical examination or medical treatment because of other diseases found when measuring. Fortunately, the majority of people in blood pressure, there are dizziness, headache or epistaxis signal.

In the out-patient work, often hear the question: how high blood pressure is normal?

The correct answer should be: varies from person to person.

For some special populations, such as diabetic patients on blood pressure control should be in the ideal state, but for a simple high-pressure high blood pressure increased the elderly, high pressure could be relaxed to 150mmHg.

First areas of normal blood pressure at different levels as follows:

Normal systolic pressure below 140mmHg, diastolic blood pressure below 90mmHg.

Normal limits: systolic blood pressure 130 ~ 139mmHg, diastolic blood pressure 85 ~ 90 mmHg.

Normal blood pressure: systolic blood pressure 120 ~ 129 mmHg, diastolic blood pressure 80 ~ 85 mmHg.

Ideal blood pressure: systolic blood pressure <120 mmHg, diastolic blood pressure <80 mmHg.