7 things you shouldn't do if your blood pressure goes up
With all the awareness of the current generation about everything in the world, there is a frightening number of mistakes regarding the correct behavior with high blood pressure.
This material will tell you what not to do if the pressure jumped up.
1. Bask in any way
It is impossible to warm the body at high pressure.
There is an opinion that pressure can be reduced by the folk method of vasodilation due to intense warming of the body. Here, such techniques as a hot bath or a glass of alcohol are used. It is absolutely impossible to do this. If you skip a glass, the vessels will indeed expand somewhat for a while, however, it has been scientifically established that blood cells stick together more intensively when alcohol is consumed, and due to this, the risk of thrombosis and an even greater pressure surge increases.
As for a hot bath or a sauna-bathhouse, even with a slight rise in pressure, the heart will work too hard during such heating, giving the vessels a load due to the rapid pumping of blood, and this completely neutralizes the effect of vasodilation due to high temperatures, in addition, very dangerous to health. On the contrary, in case of a pressure surge, it is recommended to place your hands under a cold stream of water, then moisten your elbows and earlobes with cold water.
2. Lie down
Death from hypertension can be COULD.
Many hypertensive patients are sure that rest is a prerequisite for high blood pressure, which means that you need to lie down, not sit or walk. This opinion is erroneous. Among physicians, there is even such an expression as " to impose a hypertensive crisis." If the pressure has increased, then a leisurely walk would be the ideal solution, since with moderate physical activity, the blood is enriched with oxygen more intensively, becomes t hinner, and due to this, the pressure decreases naturally. If walking is not available, you need to take a half-sitting position.
3. Quickly release pressure
Do not relieve pressure quickly with large amounts of the drug.
Many hypertensive patients believe that bringing down blood pressure quickly is the only important goal. This is a fatal delusion. Doctors say aloud that the pressure should be reduced gradually in order to avoid all kinds of ailments. Therefore, if you drank half of your usual pill for pressure, and after half an hour it decreased, according to the tonometer, only slightly, do not rush to drink the second half or the second pill after the first. Let the first dose of the drug do its job. The rapid decreasein pressure, doctors say, is extremely dangerous for the vessels of the brain.
4. Drink tea
There is a lot of caffeine in tea, and it excites many times stronger than coffee, especially in bags.
Hypertensive patients, under the influence of a half-century-old stereotype, sometimes mistakenly believe t hat they should not drink coffee, but they can drink tea. It is a myth. Coffee has a diuretic effect, and, therefore, can reduce blood pressure by 5-10 divisions of the tonometer. But tea contains almost as much caffeine as coffee, and it also contains substances that are very invigorating the nervous system and increase blood pressure even more.
5. Stay in front of the TV / computer / gadget
Absolutely NO at high pressure!
With high blood pressure, you cannot read, write, watch TV, sit at a computer and stare at a smartphone or tablet. The stress on the optic nerve always prevents pressure reduction. Therefore, the best solution would be a leisurely walk in the fresh air or minimal physical activity around the house.
6. Don't go to the toilet
It is very important to empty the bladder promptly when there is a pressure surge.
If the pressure has increased quite strongly and the only thing that is now available to you is to be at rest in a reclining state, then you definitely need to go to the toilet regularly, even if there is no feeling of an acute fullness of the bladder. The fact is that pressure-reducing drugs always have a diuretic effect, so it is imperative to empty the bladder, ignoring the ancient beliefs that when the pressure rises , “even getting up to the toilet is dangerous.” Doctors who have prescribed the drug with a sharp jump in pressure will definitely warn that you will need to goto the toilet several times, after which the pressure will gently decrease under the action of the drug.
7. Eat a fried, fatty, smoked, salty, spicy
This opium for the people was invented by an old woman with a scythe.
With increased pressure, you should refuse