Hypertension
Hypertension A disease of arterial disease is an increase in the resistance of arterial walls to the pumping of the heart from the blood. It is related to the aging of the body and the accumulation of fat in the walls of the arteries, in addition to the factors of decay with age, which affects the elasticity of these arteries and the natural pressure of the human in rest The patient is diagnosed with high blood pressure only after measuring his blood pressure three times in three different sessions and during complete rest and observation of high blood pressure.
Types of hypertension
- Simple, where diastolic pressure reading is (90-104).
- The mean elevation is diastolic pressure reading (105-119).
- The dangerous elevation is called diastolic pressure (120-130).
- Chronic hypertension leads to enlarged and decreased heart, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, paraplegia and leads to cerebral palsy and retinal bleeding.
Treatment of hypertension
- Work on weight loss and reduce diet obesity for fats and carbohydrates.
- Use medicines and medical drugs to control blood pressure and avoid multiplying it.
- Treatment of food by moving away from foods that increase the size of the problem.
- The most important point in the treatment of high blood pressure is to reduce the proportion of salt to the lowest levels, as the need for the body to salt is about 2-3 grams a day and easily obtained by the human without adding salt to the food to eat, it gets from meat, vegetables and fruits and natural and depending on the degree For high blood pressure, take the diet from the table salt and minimize its use as much as possible.
Tips for Patient Hypertension
- Reduce the salt added to the food and cooking as much as possible and can dispense with the salt of the table altogether.
- Keep away from salted foods, such as salted meats, salted and smoked fish, pickles, oils, dairy products, and salted milk.
- Stay away from salted foods, such as: shibs, salted mustard, salted pistachios, salted tarmes, nuts, salted biscuits, salted cheeses.
- Reduce the amount of salt added to the bread and dough, and keep away from what the patient tastes as salty bait.
- Reduce the intake of soft drinks, because it contains sodium and carbonates that raise blood pressure.
- Reduce the intake of canned foods, because they contain sodium-rich preservatives sometimes and sodium is known to increase blood pressure.
- Relieve drinking tea and caffeine, as it helps to increase blood pressure and accelerate heartbeat.
- Hiking is useful for patients with high blood pressure, while strong physical exertion is harmful and leads to high blood pressure and the risk of doubling it.