3 mistakes that cause people with high blood pressure to have a stroke during Tet

dantri.com.vn• February 6, 2018 09:31

Medical experts have pointed out 3 dangerous habits of people with high blood pressure during Tet that cause patients to face serious complications, even stroke at any time.

Subjective psychology: irregular blood pressure monitoring and medication

Tet is an occasion for families to go on spring outings, visit relatives, neighbors, etc. The diet, exercise, rest, and travel of people with high blood pressure are greatly disrupted. Disturbances in eating and living as well as being "too busy having fun" make patients forget to measure their blood pressure every day.

Many people are busy going on spring outings, visiting friends and relatives and forget to bring their medicine with them to take. Others avoid buying medicine at the beginning of the year for fear of “running out all year long” while not having a ready supply at home, leading to running out of medicine. As a result, they have to “bite the bullet” and not take it this time, just leave it for the next time… causing blood pressure to spike at any time. When blood pressure rises, the patient will be at risk of having a stroke.

Forgetting to take medication will cause high blood pressure.

Drink a lot of beer and alcohol

Drinking alcohol to celebrate Tet is a Vietnamese tradition. However, alcohol is a “killer” for people with high blood pressure. For every 10g of alcohol consumed, blood pressure will increase by about 1mmHg.

Drinking a lot of beer and alcohol increases the risk of stroke during Tet.

The mentality of people with high blood pressure who only drink a little in each place makes the amount of beer and alcohol they consume "a little bit becomes a lot".

Alcohol not only reduces the effectiveness of antihypertensive drugs, but also increases circulating blood volume. Therefore, it can lead to sudden hypertensive crises, putting patients at risk of myocardial infarction or stroke.

Eat lots of foods high in fat and salt

In addition, the common characteristic of Tet dishes is that they contain a lot of fat and salt such as pork roll, head cheese, sausage, beef jerky, dried squid, pickled onions, pickled onions... These silent "killers" will increase the volume of circulation and make blood pressure rise even higher.

Combined with the previous habit of eating salty foods, this will be the last straw that will cause these blood clots to become more numerous and thicker, causing narrowing of the blood vessels, blockage of blood vessels and stroke at any time.

How to fix mistakes?

To live a healthy life with high blood pressure, patients need to resolutely change the above mistakes. People with high blood pressure need to measure their blood pressure and carry their medication with them every day, take their medication on time, in the right dose, and not share their prescription with others.

You should limit foods that contain a lot of fat and salt such as meat jelly, dried squid, dried beef, sausage, dried beef, pickled vegetables, pickled onions, pickled shallots, etc.

Tet is also a time when it is very difficult to refuse drinking alcohol. However, people with high blood pressure need to adjust to drinking alcohol in moderation. Each person should not drink more than 50ml of strong alcohol, or 125ml of wine, or 300ml of beer per day.