Generally speaking, people with high cholesterol do not usually show any symptoms. So even if you feel good about yourself, it is still possible that you have high cholesterol. To find out if you have high cholesterol, you can have a blood test. However, if your cholesterol is severely high, your body will still show certain symptoms.
I. Symptoms of high cholesterol
1. Change in skin color
There are yellow patches around the glasses and the skin becomes more lax. This is caused by excessive cholesterol gathering in the lower eyelids.
2. Occasional headache
Occasional headache, dizziness, and toothache. This is one of the symptoms of coronary heart disease and other cardiovascular system diseases. Of course, if you have these symptoms, do not rule out the possibility of other diseases, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible to check to confirm the diagnosis.
3, the skin will mosquito up small swollen sores
When cholesterol is too high, in the skin will be mosquito up small sores, this small sore surface is smooth, yellow. Most of the growth in the eyelids, elbows, thighs, heels and other parts.
4, similar to chicken pox-like material
Neutral fat is too high, the skin will appear many small finger size of soft pox-like material. The color is not as yellow as cholesterol swelling sores, but is a light yellow color. They mainly grow on the back, chest, wrist, arm and other parts of the body, and are not painful or itchy.
5.Yellow finger forks
If the fork of the finger becomes yellow, it means that the cholesterol and neutral fat in the body are too high.
6, leg stomach cramps
Leg stomach cramps, and often feel tingling, which may be cholesterol accumulation in the muscles of the leg belly caused, which also indicates that cholesterol is too high.
7, the obese liver will be enlarged
Fat people have more fat in the blood, cholesterol accumulation in the fat of the liver, will cause liver enlargement. If you press the right side of the rib cage with your finger and breathe deeply, you can touch the lower edge of the liver. This phenomenon can also indicate excess cholesterol in addition to hepatitis.
Second, how to prevent high cholesterol in the diet
1. Eat more fiber-containing foods
You should eat more fiber-containing foods, which can help improve the cholesterol mechanism and break down some of the cholesterol, so you can eat more high-fiber cereals, such as rice, millet, sorghum, or bread made of mixed grains.
2, control the intake of animal fats
The second is to control animal fats, appropriate increase in vegetable oil, calculations show that, such as cooking without animal oil, each patient can eat vegetable oil (soybean oil, corn oil, vegetable oil, etc.) 500 to 750g per month is more ideal.
3, eat more soybean products
You can eat more soybean products, soybean made tofu, tofu skin and other foods will contain a natural phytochemical, this substance is called isoflavones, can quickly help to break down the excess cholesterol in the body, so you can prevent high cholesterol.
4, eat more cholesterol-lowering food
Eat more cholesterol-lowering foods, such as soybeans and their products, goldenrod (grass head), shiitake mushrooms, wood ear, etc. Some of these foods also have an anti-coagulant effect at the same time, which is also good for the prevention of thrombosis and coronary heart disease.