Warning: 3 mistakes that cause people with high blood pressure to be hospitalized during Tet
To help people with high blood pressure know and avoid mistakes in health care during Tet, read the article below.
1. Eat and drink freely
During Tet, the majority of Vietnamese people, including those with high blood pressure, will allow themselves to eat and drink freely during Tet without having to abstain from any food or drink. This not only makes the whole year's effort to treat high blood pressure go to zero, but also puts people with high blood pressure at risk of having to be hospitalized.
Therefore, to have a happy, healthy Tet holiday with family, relatives and friends, people with high blood pressure should limit the following foods:
- Sweets, fatty foods, animal organs... eating a lot of these foods will cause people with high blood pressure to face the risk of increased blood fat, atherosclerosis, causing high blood pressure, coronary artery disease and stroke.
- Eat a lot of protein: People with high blood pressure who eat a lot of protein will put a burden on the kidneys, affecting kidney function. Therefore, medical experts recommend that people with high blood pressure should only eat about 1g/kg/day of protein. In cases where people with high blood pressure have kidney complications, they should limit their protein intake to only 0.4-0.6g/kg/day and should replace animal protein with vegetable protein.
- Eating and drinking spicy foods, stimulants such as coffee, alcohol, beer, cigarettes and strong tea also cause high blood pressure.
- Salty foods: Scientists believe that when there is too much salt, the amount of fluid in the blood increases, causing high blood pressure; and the amount of salt that accumulates in the blood vessel walls makes the blood vessel walls "harder", which is a favorable factor for high blood pressure. Therefore, people with high blood pressure should limit their salty food intake.
2. No exercise
If people with high blood pressure usually exercise diligently, they are quite lazy during Tet. For people with high blood pressure, science has proven that physical activities make the arteries softer, more elastic, and more resilient; make the veins return blood to the heart faster and more regularly, pushing more blood to important organs such as the brain, lungs, kidneys, and liver.
In addition, exercise also makes people with high blood pressure feel more refreshed, agile, and optimistic. On the contrary, not exercising will cause excess energy, making people with high blood pressure feel difficult to sleep, even causing insomnia all night.
3. Forget to take medicine, quit taking medicine
Spring outings and New Year celebrations often cause people to forget to take their high blood pressure medication on time. Not only do they forget to take their medication on time, but people with high blood pressure also tend to be complacent because their blood pressure is stable, so it doesn't matter if they forget to take their medication for 1-2 days. However, forgetting to take their medication, along with eating unhealthy foods and drinking alcohol, can cause blood pressure to spike at any time.
Solutions to help people with high blood pressure have a happy and healthy spring
To have a happy and healthy Tet with your loved ones, health experts advise people with high blood pressure to "tighten their discipline". For Tet dishes such as banh chung, you should only eat about 100g/day for breakfast or lunch. Onions and pickles should be replaced with sweet and sour pickled vegetables such as pickled shallots, carrots, pickled radishes, pickled lotus roots, etc.
During Tet, people with high blood pressure can drink about 100-200ml of red wine, 1 can of beer/day, and no more than 1 can of soft drinks/day. People with high blood pressure should drink and treat guests with cups of green tea, chrysanthemum tea, and cooling tea to cool the body and aid digestion.
