Hypertension is a common geriatric hypertension, and many people basically have high blood pressure when they are older, but does high blood pressure mean that it is high blood pressure?
What kind of harm does high blood pressure cause to our body, and how should we prevent the occurrence of high blood pressure or how to delay the pathology caused by high blood pressure?
What kind of harm does high blood pressure do to our body? Experts say: "If blood pressure is controlled at this number, the risk of death is greatly reduced!"
1. Is blood pressure higher than high blood pressure?
First of all, we need to know that high blood pressure is not the same as high blood pressure, which means that blood pressure higher than 140/90mmHg is determined to be high blood pressure in every blood pressure measurement. So, everyone should pay attention to the premise that it is every time.
Because normal people will also have high blood pressure when they measure blood pressure in the following situations, but this does not mean that he is high blood pressure, such as: emotional agitation, after exercise, taking some neurostimulant drugs, etc. So, for our elderly friends.
We need to know if we are measuring higher than 140/90mmHg every time. If yes, then you need to go to the hospital and take your medicine according to the doctor's instructions. If not, then don't take medicine preventively, because in a normal state, our body will maintain a certain strength of blood pressure to ensure the vital activities of the body.
If you take blood pressure medication when you are normal. This will cause your blood pressure to drop rapidly at this time, reaching a state of low blood pressure or even shock. Therefore, antihypertensive drugs should not be taken indiscriminately, and we need to first distinguish whether we have high blood pressure or high blood pressure.
2. What about the dangers of high blood pressure?
Blood pressure does not seem to be fatal, in fact, it is one of the potential murderers of our cardiovascular disease attack and death, it directly damages our blood vessel wall, causing the elasticity of the blood vessel wall to decrease, and when the blood vessel wall is damaged at the same time, some metabolic waste in the blood vessel will take the opportunity to enter the blood vessel wall, forming hemangioma or atherosclerosis, so that we are trained to train the original layer of paper, which is divided into two long and thinner papers, and there is a large amount of waste in it, and with the fermentation of time, the gap between the two pieces of paper is getting bigger and bigger。
Until one day, when the blood pressure strikes again, the outermost layer of the blood vessel wall can not withstand the impact of pressure and ruptures, and by the way, the metabolic waste in the blood vessels also rushes into the blood vessels, causing the blockage of blood vessels.
With the growth of blood vessel blockage, organs moistened by blood vessels, such as heart, eyes, kidneys, etc., will not receive blood perfusion and atrophy, and even lesions such as: coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, cerebral thrombosis, hypertensive nephropathy, etc. Therefore, we need to pay attention to the potential harm caused by high blood pressure and reduce blood pressure reasonably.
3. How to prevent high blood pressure?
High blood pressure is an irreversible disease, so it is not right to say that you want to keep yourself free of high blood pressure from the perspective of prevention. However, we can reduce the side effects of high blood pressure as much as possible through prevention. That's what we can do. For most people, the best way to slow down the lesion is to listen to the doctor's advice, have regular check-ups and take relevant blood pressure medications, and pay attention to the most important point is that you cannot stop the medicine casually.
Because the formation principle of hypertension is mainly caused by excessive water and excessive calcium concentration in the body, and the main factor that controls the water and calcium ions in our body is the hormones in our body, so many of our stress reducers play a role by adjusting the content of hormones or the mode of action of hormones.
When you look at the normal blood pressure and stop taking the medication, on the surface your blood pressure is under control, but in essence, the hormone secretion in your body is disrupted by you. Hormones are an important helper in regulating the functions of our body, when you disrupt the secretion of hormones or the effect of hormones for a long time, then when you have high blood pressure next time, you need a larger dose of hormones to control it.
This means that you need to take too many blood pressure medications to maintain it, and when you have some underlying medical conditions, these blood pressure drugs should not be taken too much. Therefore, for us, we need to lower blood pressure reasonably, and when our blood pressure is stable, what we need to do is to go to the doctor and ask if we need to reduce the number of medications, whether to switch to decompression drugs that have a longer effect.
4. What is the "sweet spot" for high blood pressure?
For as mentioned in the morning, each person's blood pressure value may be different, so the best value for each person is different, not the lower the better, we have to analyze our own situation specifically, for example: for most patients who are around 140-150mmHg, without underlying diabetes, heart disease and other underlying diseases, the ideal value is 120mmHg. For some patients between 150 and 160 mmHg, with many underlying diseases, it is necessary to maintain 140 to 150 mmHg.
Only when the value is kept within a relatively reasonable range can the lesion damage caused by hypertension be reduced and the lesion damage minimized. Therefore, for our elderly friends, we need to go to the hospital to develop our own reasonable stress reduction plan according to our actual situation.
Fifth, a scientific diet is very important
This is because the Asian diet is mainly seasoned with salt. As a result, many of us have high blood pressure due to our dietary Xi. Because salt has the effect of locking water, when we eat too much salt, our body will help us retain a lot of water, when too much water fills the blood vessels, the pressure of the blood vessels will be relatively high, showing the manifestation of high blood pressure. Therefore, for many of us in the early stage of high blood pressure, we can reduce the formation of high blood pressure by reducing salt reasonably.
For example, you can reduce the intake of stir-fried vegetables and drink more porridge and soup every day. Eat more red dates and other foods that nourish qi and blood, promote the elimination of metabolic wastes, drink water many times, and accelerate the excretion of salt in our body. In fact, for patients with high blood pressure in the early stage, dietary treatment is more important than drug treatment, because the body's ability to regulate is still relatively good at this time. There is no such thing as relying solely on drugs to exert a regulatory effect.
summary
High blood pressure is actually not terrible, it is terrible to have a blind understanding of high blood pressure. We should establish a correct concept of disease, do not blindly stop taking drugs on our own, and choose suitable hypertension medication after a detailed examination by a doctor. Actively cooperate with medication, combined with a light diet, and fully believe in science, your life will be fully protected.