Many sugar lovers only focus on blood sugar when treating diseases, believing that everything will be fine if blood sugar reaches the standard. In fact, this is far from enough.
Don’t forget, hypertension, hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia are collectively referred to as [three highs]. They often work hand in hand to harm the health of sugar lovers.
Last time, I have already talked to you about the control of blood lipid. This time, let’s unveil another high veil, hypertension.
Diabetes blood lipid control, click: Diabetes treatment, in addition to controlling blood sugar, but also adjust blood lipid
Blood pressure control is not a trivial matter.
For sugar lovers, due to diabetes itself, people who do not have diabetes are more likely to get hypertension, which in turn can aggravate the condition of diabetes.
1. High blood pressure, silent [killing lock]
Excessive blood pressure is easy to induce various cardiovascular diseases, and the occurrence of myocardial infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, stroke and other diseases that make people turn pale at the smell are all related to poor blood pressure control.
If great efforts are made to control blood sugar, the result is to neglect the control of blood pressure and cause cardiovascular diseases, the loss outweights the gain.
The manifestation of hypertension is not obvious, so to find the fox tail of hypertension, sugar friends need to measure blood pressure regularly, find it as early as possible and treat it as soon as possible.
2. High blood pressure, [booster] of diabetic complications
Because high blood pressure can damage blood vessels, many complications of diabetes, such as diabetic nephropathy and diabetic retinopathy, are related to hypertension.
Especially for patients with diabetic nephropathy, if blood pressure is not well controlled, the progress of diabetic nephropathy will accelerate and uremia will be more likely to develop.
So, how should sugar lovers deal with hypertension? Here, Dr. Clove gives everyone a 4-character formula. Once you have mastered it, you can control your blood pressure.
Prevent
If the blood pressure exceeds 140/90 mmHg, it can be judged as hypertension. Sugar lovers who have not yet suffered from hypertension are very important to do a good job in prevention, mainly including these points:
Step 1 Control sodium intake
The daily intake of sodium salt should not exceed 5 ~ 6 g, which is about the size of a beer bottle cap. If you feel that the salt in the dish is less and tasteless, you can use vinegar or salt-free spices to flavor it.
In addition to limiting salt, many seasonings also contain a lot of salt, such as soy sauce, various pickles, ketchup, etc., so seasonings should be used rationally.
Some foods also contain more salt, such as salted eggs, bacon, pickled fish, pickled vegetables, musty tofu, etc., and some foods are unexpected [large salt collectors], such as potato chips, instant noodles, sausages, biscuits, etc.
2. Eat more vegetables properly
Vegetables are rich in potassium, which can resist the increased blood pressure caused by excessive sodium intake to a certain extent.
Step 3 Quit smoking and limit alcohol consumption
Smoking can cause vasoconstriction and destruction of vascular endothelium, increase hypertension, greatly increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction and stroke, and at the same time increase the risk of many complications of diabetes, such as diabetic foot, diabetic nephropathy and diabetic eye diseases.
Therefore, sugar lovers should give up smoking whether it is to control diabetes or prevent hypertension.
We often say that because alcohol may induce hypoglycemia and increase energy intake, sugar lovers should not drink alcohol, and friends who have diabetes and are found by hypertension should give up drinking. Alcohol can raise hypertension. The more alcohol you drink, the greater the chance of getting hypertension.
On the premise of good blood sugar control, it is really necessary to limit the amount of drinking: if drinking wine, men should drink less than 100 ~ 150 ml, if choosing beer, men should drink less than 250 ~ 500 ml, and if drinking white wine, men should control less than 50 ml (12); Women should halve and pregnant women should not drink alcohol.
Step 4 Exercise moderately
Regular and moderate exercise is not only beneficial to controlling blood sugar, but also beneficial to lowering blood pressure.
Recommended sports include: fast walking, jogging, cycling, swimming, radio gymnastics, etc. It is recommended to exercise for 30 minutes a day and 150 minutes a week.
If you have sugar friends with diabetic complications, you must ask your doctor to make sure you can exercise.
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When exercising, remember to take a few pieces of sugar with you. In case of hypoglycemia, you can deal with it in time.
Check
Since the manifestation of hypertension is not obvious, sugar lovers should measure blood pressure routinely when seeing a doctor, or measure blood pressure at home or in the community.
After excluding other factors, the diagnosis can be made by measuring blood pressure ≥ 140/90mmHg three times (not on the same day).
Cure
The treatment of hypertension among sugar lovers needs to be carried out in stages.
- For those whose blood pressure exceeds 120/80 mmHg but does not reach 140/90 mmHg, it is necessary to keep in mind the word [prevention], adjust their lifestyle and do a good job in prevention. If their blood pressure is still ≥ 140/90 mmHg repeatedly after adjusting their lifestyle, they can consider starting to use antihypertensive drugs. If their systolic blood pressure is ≥ 160 mmHg, they must take antihypertensive drugs.
There are many kinds of antihypertensive drugs. General doctors will choose the appropriate drugs after considering many factors such as the curative effect and safety of the drugs in combination with the disease condition. What sugar lovers need to do is to take the medicine on time and in quantity according to the doctor’s advice.
Control
Like blood sugar control, the blood pressure control of sugar lovers varies from person to person, and the specific control targets need to be determined by doctors.
- Generally speaking, the blood pressure of diabetes complicated with hypertension needs to be controlled within 140/90 mmHg. The control target of sugar friends who are younger, have a short illness time or have proteinuria is more strict and needs to be reduced to less than 130/80 mmHg. If they are older than 65 years old, in order to ensure the blood supply of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, the blood pressure target value can be appropriately relaxed to 150/90 mmHg.
To sum up, sugar friends can prevent or control hypertension to the greatest extent, prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and diabetic complications, and slow down the development of diseases.