Winter care for the “heart”

When it gets cold, blood pressure rises easily. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the cold is the main attraction, cold easily lead to contracture of the meridians, vascular constriction, and now this season, hypertension clinic crowd increased significantly. Elderly hypertensive people need to pay attention to keep warm, especially the back and head, some patients say, the back of a cold, high blood pressure, in fact, this is a kind of stress response of the body. When it is cold, angina pectoris is prone to attack. The most typical angina scenario: after a full meal top cold wind stomping, cold main occlusion main collection, cold is condensed sob, blood vessels do not pass, winter is the season of angina pectoris. Coronary heart disease people need to pay extra attention, usually choose the right weather to go out and activities, carry fast-acting drugs, regular medication. Cold days, heart failure patients more. Hypertension and coronary heart disease itself is a common cause of heart failure, the incidence of respiratory infections in winter is also high, infection is a common cause of heart failure. If there is shortness of breath after activity, wheezing, chest tightness must be timely to the hospital, some of the performance of the night cough, wheezing, sit up after the symptoms of relief. Some of the elderly heart failure symptoms are not typical, may be fatigue, poor mental health, nausea, abdominal distension, if the original heart disease, and the occurrence of the above conditions, the need for timely consultation and examination. In conclusion, we need to take extra care of our heart in winter!