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Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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In hot weather, the risk of vascular pathologies increases sharply - heart attacks, strokes, hemorrhages. Moreover, even those who are accustomed to consider themselves an absolutely healthy person. How to protect your heart in a hot summer.
In case of overheating, the liquid quickly evaporates from the body, the blood condenses, the blood circulation suffers, and especially the peripheral, in particular the brain, which is most in need of oxygen. Hence the headache, dizziness, nausea. Particular cunning of the summer heat is that in such weather small thrombi can arise, and more often in the vessels of the legs. These blood clots along with the general blood flow enter the heart, brain and can cause blockage of small vessels. The most severe consequence of this process is a heart attack or stroke. The viability of neurons of the brain from the moment of stopping the blood flow through the brain vessel is calculated in minutes. Therefore, for people with risk factors for stroke, the main thing is to prevent the violation of blood flow through the cerebral vessels.
To avoid problems, doctors recommend that anyone who is inclined to vascular problems take antiplatelet drugs on a daily basis. At the same time, a doctor should prescribe a specific remedy, and necessarily - after a blood test.
To hypertensive patients and cardiac patients, it is advised to constantly have such drugs as ...
- - Nochpa: relieves spasms and dilates blood vessels (attention! Pressure reduces the pressure, so those who jump it, you first need to clarify its parameters),
- - glycine: stimulates the work of neurons in the brain,
- - Corvalol or Valocordinum: soothe and relax the strained vessels.
Sudden signs of deterioration of well-being in summer heat can be especially dangerous, especially if speech and ability to move unexpectedly are violated. These symptoms can signal a micro-stroke. Therefore, having noticed them at yourself, you should immediately consult a doctor, as this condition can repeat and cause a real stroke.
Signs of heart and brain problems:
- Hypertensive crisis - dizziness, darkening in the eyes or flashing "flies", nausea, trembling limbs.
- The initial manifestations of a stroke are loss of consciousness, speech problems, numbness in the arm or leg.
- Heart hazard - shortness of breath, pain in the left half of the chest, which are given in the arm or back, heaviness in the heart, a failure of the rhythm, a sense of fear.
5 tips to protect the heart and blood vessels in the heat
- Be sure to wear sunglasses. Excessive strain of the muscles of the eyes can easily provoke a dangerous vasospasm.
- Hearts and hypertensive patients need to give up crushing clothing and jewelry - rings, bracelets, heavy chains, etc.
- Provide the heart with potassium and magnesium - in hot weather the need for them increases. Among the products saturated with potassium dried apricots, raisins, bananas. Magnesium is abundant in cocoa, buckwheat, beans, almonds.
- Smoke less! Nicotine prevents the filling of blood with oxygen and causes a spasm of blood vessels.
- Do not forget to drink more. In the morning and in the evening it is useful to wash with cool mineral water - it maintains a normal skin balance.
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