Both high and low blood pressure can cause significant harm to the human body. Some pregnant women often experience symptoms such as dizziness, blurred vision, coldness in their limbs, and pale complexion during pregnancy, which may actually be caused by low blood pressure. So, what should pregnant women do if their blood pressure is low? Next, we will introduce five tips for regulating low blood pressure in pregnant women.
1. Strengthen nutrition
People with a tendency towards low blood pressure may experience lower blood pressure if they are malnourished; If nutrition is strengthened, blood pressure can be brought close to normal, and the accompanying discomfort symptoms can also be alleviated or eliminated. Traditional Chinese health medicine suggests eating more nourishing foods such as ginger, longan, red dates, walnuts, ginseng, schisandra, yam, lilies, honey, etc., which can help improve low blood pressure.
2. Eat less antihypertensive foods
Do not eat celery, winter melon, mung beans, hawthorn, bitter gourd, onion, radish, kelp and other foods that can lower blood pressure and promote diuresis frequently.
3. Add a little salt
Increasing salt in the body can raise blood pressure, and patients with low blood pressure can improve their symptoms by consuming about 12 grams of salt in moderation every day.
4. Eating hematopoietic raw materials
For low blood pressure caused by anemia, attention should be paid to eating foods that provide hematopoietic raw materials, such as foods rich in protein, copper, and iron elements (such as liver, fish, milk, eggs, beans, and iron rich vegetables and fruits), which can help correct anemia. Correcting anemia is beneficial for increasing cardiac output, improving blood supply to the brain, raising blood pressure, and eliminating adverse symptoms caused by low blood pressure.
5. Boosting appetite
If accompanied by loss of appetite, one can eat appropriate foods and seasonings that can stimulate appetite, such as ginger, onions, vinegar, sauce, sugar, pepper, chili peppers, beer, wine, etc.
What should pregnant women do if their blood pressure is low? When pregnant women experience low blood pressure, it must be taken seriously, as prolonged low blood pressure in pregnant women is not conducive to their own and fetal health. The above introduces five effective methods for regulating low blood pressure in pregnant women. It is recommended that pregnant women with low blood pressure try them out.
