Increased blood viscosity can promote thrombosis, which is a high-risk factor for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases , especially stroke and acute myocardial infarction. To reduce the chance of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, the most important thing is to dilute the blood to prevent thrombosis. Assess whether your blood is sticky and you might as well feel whether there are any of the following symptoms.
What are the symptoms of blood becoming viscous?
1. It is often difficult to see clearly
paroxysmal blurred things are common in many diseases. In addition to cerebrovascular diseases, it may also be eye diseases and cervical spondylosis .
2, cyanotic lips
The lips are blue-purple, and you will get out of breath after a few minutes of activity. Usually, this type of person has a high blood viscosity, often accompanied by increased red blood cells. Pay attention to whether there are lung lesions or cardiovascular lesions.
3. It is easy to get sleepy after meals
After a full meal, the blood in the body is redistributed, and most of the blood flows to the gastrointestinal tract to help digest food. The brain and heart are relatively ischemia, which leads to sleepyness. However, it is particularly obvious that patients with higher blood viscosity and cerebral arteriosclerosis suffer from sleepiness after meals.
4. Dizziness when getting up in the morning
In the morning, the blood viscosity is relatively high, and it is easy to cause dizziness on the head. It can be relieved after drinking water or eating breakfast appropriately.
How to regulate blood viscosity?
1. Drink more water
Develop the good habit of drinking more water, and the daily water volume should reach more than 1,500 ml. After a night of sleep, most of the water in the body is lost with sweat, breathing, etc. After getting up in the morning, the body is in a state of dehydration and the blood is highly viscous, so you should drink a glass of warm boiled water after getting up in the morning. It is worth reminding that people with kidney damage and cardiac insufficiency need to drink water under the guidance of a doctor.
2. Quit smoking and quit drinking
The harmful substances in cigarettes can hinder blood circulation, reduce blood flow, and slow down blood circulation; alcohol abuse can harm the liver, affect the liver's metabolism of fat, thereby increasing blood viscosity, so quitting smoking and quitting alcohol is imperative.
3. Arrange your diet reasonably and stay away from fried, high fat and high cholesterol foods; be light for breakfast, lunch or dinner, and eat coarse grains and fine grains together; eat appropriately deep-sea fish, onions and hawthorns, etc. to dilute the blood; eat 500 grams of fresh vegetables and more than 200 grams of fruit every day, which contains vitamin C and cellulose. The former can help regulate blood lipids , and the latter can inhibit the intestinal absorption of cholesterol , thereby reducing blood viscosity.
Warm reminder
In addition to doing the above points, you also need to maintain moderate exercise, which can improve blood circulation and reduce blood viscosity. Stay calm and divert attention through outdoor exercise, drawing or listening to music. People over 45 years old, frequent smoking and alcoholics, and patients with hyperlipidemia and hypertension are prone to high blood viscosity, so they should undergo regular physical examinations to monitor blood viscosity indicators, and if necessary, they should also follow the doctor's advice to take medication.
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