Archive for September, 2009

Could you recommend some kind of receipt for people with elevated blood pressure?

carrot-milk-pouringIt can be Gajjar Ka Doodh, a traditional receipt from North India with pala kova (evaporated milk without sugar). Instead of pala kova condensed milk may be taken but do not forget to put less sugar into your carrot drink. If you have an opportunity to cook it with pala kova, do try as it is surely worth it.

Soak 6 cashewnuts and 4 almonds without rind in a small amount of milk for 15 minutes, and then grind them into paste. Take two large carrots boiled and smashed into puree after cooling. It will be enough for 6 glasses of our Indian drink. Add to a liter and one cup of milk a clove and half of a cinnamon stick, heat the liquid until it boils. Make the heat minimal and keep the milk boiling for about 15 minutes while stirring it constantly. Put in four tablespoons of sugar (or less if you do not have pala kova) and continue to stir until it dissolves completely.

Keeping the milk heated, add smashed carrots to it, then mix two substances together and cook for 3–4 minutes. Add 2 tablespoons of pala kova (3 tablespoons of condensed milk) and half of tablespoon of powdered elaichi. Mix everything well and after two more minutes stop boiling the milk. Remove the cinnamon stick and the clove that are no longer necessary, and wait until the milk cools completely.

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Is it possible to keep high blood pressure under control without drugs? What are the main side effects of pills for treating hypertension?

Every moment related to elevated blood pressure is highly recommended to be discussed with your healthcare professional. To choose the way for managing hypertension that suits your needs, your physician should know its history and nature. It should always be remembered that not every type of
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Are there any potential problems related to hypertension and pregnancy?

In such cases much depends on the condition of the woman. Diagnosed hypertension is one thing, while suspicion of slightly elevated blood pressure is quite another piece of problem. Anyway, your first step is to start taking care of your blood pressure, no matter if you plan to have a baby or not.

Seek for a competent advice of a healthcare professional. It should be noted that certain recommendations are very easy and suitable for nearly everyone. The most obvious moments are restriction of salt intake, sufficient physical activities, and getting your weight to a recommended norm.
Given that natural measures are unable to get blood pressure under control your physician may turn to medicines. As a rule, patients begin with taking diuretics. After studying their effect, beta blockers can be recommended.

As you can see, analyzing any case with hypertension and pregnancy requires detailed information about your current state and measures used to keep your blood pressure under control. If exercising and healthy food is enough to bring it back to norm, it is likely to be enough during pregnancy, too. It is obvious that as less medications as possible should be taken by an expectant woman. Your infertility doctor will monitor things to make sure that you and your baby are perfectly safe.

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Essential hypertension: reasons unknown

Hypertension is often associated with additional risk factors for your health. It is able to provoke cardiovascular problems, up to heart attacks and strokes. High blood pressure is thought to be directly related to kidney problems, although they may become apparent only after a long while. Elevated blood pressure means additional load on your heart and potential damage to your blood vessels. Moreover, the higher blood pressure is, the graver the consequences may be.

In 90–95 percent of patients it is impossible to find out the exact cause of elevated blood pressure. Healthcare professionals refer to such a state as primary (or essential) hypertension. 75 million of people in America only have got diagnosed primary hypertension.

Although it is the most common problem with blood pressure, primary hypertension still requires additional research. By now, scientists think that essential hypertension is caused by a whole bunch of various factors including environmental and hereditary issues. If earlier high blood pressure was untypical for children and adolescents, now it is diagnosed even in young patients. The causes of it are usually unknown.

At least several of the reasons for growing blood pressure are already known. For now they include artery wall thickening (hypertrophy), hardened arteries (arteriosclerosis), contracted arterioles (small arteries). Good news is that effective treatment methods are also available, both natural and medical.

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In vitro baby with your blood pressure elevated. Possible?

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I am planning to become pregnant but I am not sure what to do with my elevated blood pressure. Due to constant stresses and nervousness it is always about 150-160 over 90. Is it possible to continue treatment if a woman is going to have a baby? Are there safe blood pressure drugs?
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