Do I need to take water to unblock blood vessels regularly? In the outpatient clinic, every spring, summer or autumn/winter, there are elderly people who come to the clinic and ask for water to “activate blood circulation” and “unblock blood vessels”, and ask them if they have any related symptoms, they often say no, but they have heard that hanging water is good for them and wash their blood vessels. blood vessels, healthier. I will painstakingly tell them, really do not need, you have blood pressure, blood sugar, lipids are well controlled, if there is atherosclerosis performance, usually long-term aspirin and statin lipid-lowering drugs, can be prevented, do not need to hang water, some elderly people will listen, and some elderly people insist on hanging, it is also very helpless, said more, some elderly people still think you can not. As an example, the husband of my sister-in-law is over 80 years old and used to go to the hospital at least twice a year because of dizziness and swelling, and regularly go to “unblock the blood vessels” every year. The old man was still not effective after hanging water 3 years ago in a winter, and he was too dizzy and swollen to go downstairs. I don’t know why my sister-in-law suddenly had a brainwave and said to him, “Why don’t you ask my sister-in-law to take a look? In fact, the old man lives upstairs in my house, but he never thought to look for me to see the doctor. The old man is a very careful person, he took the past hospitalization cases and the daily measured blood pressure values, blood pressure and blood sugar values at different times. I read the test results and found that the main problem of the old man was his long history of hypertension, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, proteinuria and lacunar cerebral infarction. Although he usually takes oral medication to lower his sugar and blood pressure, his blood sugar and blood pressure and lipid control are not satisfactory, especially blood pressure control is not satisfactory, especially in winter. The first thing is to turn on the air conditioning at home, the low temperature in winter, blood vessels tend to contract, resulting in higher blood pressure, and secondly, to adjust the antihypertensive drugs, taking into account the elderly have proteinuria and simple systolic hypertension, my own “first” antihypertensive program, hydrochlorothiazide valsartan and valsartan program The following considerations: 1, the elderly simple systolic hypertension, refers to the elderly because of the decline in vascular elasticity, blood pressure is only manifested as systolic blood pressure, that is, high pressure, while diastolic blood pressure, that is, low pressure is not high, or even low, for such patients diuretics, such as hydrochlorothiazide has a magical effect, half a tablet can significantly reduce the systolic blood pressure; 2, the elderly have proteinuria, increase the amount of angiotensin receptor antagonists Such as the amount of valsartan can significantly reduce proteinuria, slowing down the time of the appearance of renal proteinuria, and thus elevated blood creatinine leading to uremia. And the safe dose of valsartan is large, you can take up to 8 tablets orally; 3, many antihypertensive drugs are long-acting, but with the prolongation of oral drug time, drug concentration decreases, the optimal strength of drug action decreases, take valsartan twice a day, you can better control the rise of blood pressure at night, which is one of the main factors leading to damage to the heart, kidneys and brain and other target organs. So the specific regimen to lower the old man’s blood pressure is one hydrochlorothiazide valsartan in the morning and one valsartan in the evening. This regimen may be questioned by many experts, but I think it is a more suitable one for the old man. It is very important to individualize the antihypertensive regimen. I suggest that the old man should control his diet and adjust his insulin dose, and that his blood sugar should not be too strict: 6-8 mmol/l fasting, no more than 9 mmol/l, 8-10 mmol/l postprandial, no more than 11 mmol/l. Also, considering that the old man has risk factors for atherosclerosis such as hypertension, diabetes and hyperlipidemia, and has lacunar I suggested him to take long-term aspirin and moderate strength statin to lower lipid and stabilize atheromatous plaque (atorvastatin 20mg once a night), considering his risk factors of hypertension, diabetes and hyperlipidemia, and symptoms of cerebral infarction such as dizziness and swelling. He asked me if he wanted to take some herbal medicine, and I suggested that it could be a supplement, but not too many varieties, preferably one or at most two. The feedback I got from my grandfather about a week later was that his headache and dizziness had improved significantly and he dared to go downstairs, and from that time on, for more than 3 years now, he has never been hooked up to water again and is able to take care of himself completely. So that the preventive hanging water, it really is not useful, but also unnecessary, long-term hanging water, will damage the blood vessels, and many Chinese medicine will lead to allergies and other side effects, if hanging water in small clinics, anaphylaxis, resuscitation is not timely will also have life-threatening. To prevent atherosclerosis, it is still important to start at the source, such as controlling blood pressure stability, avoiding large fluctuations in blood pressure, controlling blood pressure to the standard, controlling blood sugar while preventing hypoglycemia, lipids to the standard, plus the use of aspirin and statin lipid-lowering drugs can prevent the occurrence and development of atherosclerosis and other diseases is essential. If someone still wants to ask me: do I need to hang water regularly to unblock the blood vessels? My answer is: No! No! No need! No!