What to do if you have low blood pressure and dizziness

People with low blood pressure are prone to dizziness and fatigue. If they cannot get effective regulation, their life and work will be affected to varying degrees. Therefore, they should pay attention to rest more, maintain adequate sleep, and strengthen nutritional supplements.

1. If you feel poorly energetic after getting up, have difficulty concentrating in the morning, and are easily tired, dizzy, have tinnitus, and loss of appetite, it may be due to low blood pressure, but low blood pressure does not necessarily mean you are sick. Doctors suggest that patients with low blood pressure do not need treatment if they do not have any special symptoms. It is more effective to strengthen their health care in daily life, diet and exercise than to take blood pressure-raising drugs. Lifestyle regimen for low blood pressure Measure your blood pressure frequently and pay attention to changes.

2. Get enough rest. Fatigue and lack of sleep will lower your blood pressure, so you should maintain a regular life and avoid overwork and staying up late. In addition, the pillow should not be too low when sleeping.

Take a hot bath. A hot bath can enhance blood circulation and improve symptoms of low blood pressure. The best water temperature is around 43 degrees C. Bathing time should not be too long. After bathing for about three minutes, you should rest for a while before bathing again. The effect will be better if you can sit and rest for a while after taking a bath. Avoid standing for long periods of time or changing your posture suddenly. When picking up things from the ground, do not lower your head directly, but squat first. When getting up, do not stand up suddenly, but make sure your body is balanced first, and then get up slowly. Pay attention to the environment and clothing. Avoid being in a stuffy environment to avoid vasodilation and lower blood pressure. Do not tie your tie too tightly, and avoid wearing clothes with collars that are too high or too tight, otherwise it will compress the carotid sinus, causing a sudden drop in blood pressure and fainting.

3. Improve nutrition. For people who are prone to low blood pressure , malnutrition will make their blood pressure even lower; if nutrition is improved, blood pressure can be close to normal values, and the accompanying discomfort symptoms can also be alleviated or disappear. Traditional Chinese health medicine recommends eating more nourishing foods such as ginger, longan, red dates, walnuts, ginseng, schisandra, yam, lily, honey, etc., which can help improve low blood pressure. Eat less blood pressure-lowering foods and do not often eat blood pressure-lowering and diuretic foods such as celery, winter melon, mung beans, hawthorn, bitter melon, onion, radish, kelp, etc. Add a little salt to increase the salt in the body

Salt can increase blood pressure. Patients with low blood pressure can improve the symptoms of low blood pressure by taking about 12 grams of salt every day.

4. Exercise regularly can regulate the nervous system, enhance cardiovascular function, and thus improve the symptoms of hypotension. Choose exercises carefully. People with orthostatic hypotension should avoid standing for long periods of time or doing exercises that change body position. People who suffer from hypotension due to certain diseases should have a health check before exercising. It is better to exercise under the guidance of a doctor and sports health therapist, which is safer.