Drinking Water And Coronary Heart Disease

Drinking Water And Coronary Heart Disease

The heart is an important organ of the human body. It functions like a pump that never stops working. With each contraction of the heart, blood carrying oxygen and nutrients is transported through the aorta to the whole body to meet the metabolic needs of various tissues and cells.

"Coronary heart disease" is the abbreviation of coronary artery sclerosis. It is a heart disease caused by atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries, which causes stenosis or obstruction of the vascular lumen, resulting in myocardial ischemia, hypoxia or necrosis. It is also called ischemic heart disease.

The risk factors of coronary heart disease include hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia. Many common and unexpected risk factors in daily life threaten our lives.

1. Smoking

Patients with coronary heart disease should stay away from tobacco and must not smoke again. Nicotine, tar, benzopyrene and other harmful substances contained in cigarettes, especially nicotine, can directly stimulate the vasomotor center and stimulate the release of adrenaline and norepinephrine, causing faster heartbeat, peripheral vasoconstriction, increased blood pressure, inducing acute thrombosis, and aggravating atherosclerosis.
For people who already have coronary heart disease, smoking can accelerate the progression of their disease and the onset of coronary heart disease. When smoking a lot, due to hypoxia and increased cardiac excitability, it can induce serious arrhythmias such as ventricular fibrillation, thereby causing sudden death.

2. Excessive drinking
Patients with coronary heart disease should not drink excessively, otherwise, it is easy to induce coronary artery spasm. Coronary arteries of patients with coronary heart disease are narrow, and excessive drinking will make it more likely for coronary artery ischemia and hypoxia to occur, thus causing sudden death.

3. Overeating

After eating, the heart needs to output a large amount of blood to the digestive system for digestion and absorption. Overeating will increase the burden on the heart and increase the oxygen consumption of the myocardium, putting the heart's blood circulation in a relatively ischemic state.

Overeating will also significantly increase the blood lipid level in the blood, increase blood viscosity, induce thrombosis, and cause myocardial infarction.

4. Vigorous exercise

Patients with coronary heart disease should avoid vigorous exercise. Because when exercising vigorously, the body's oxygen demand increases, the heart's work increases, and the blood demand increases. Patients with coronary heart disease already have varying degrees of myocardial ischemia or hypoxia. Vigorous exercise will further increase myocardial oxygen consumption. The narrow blood vessels of the heart itself cannot provide so much blood, which can easily induce heart failure, myocardial infarction and other diseases, endangering life and health.

5. Obesity

The blood lipid content of obese people is higher than that of other people. Cholesterol in the blood will accumulate in the blood vessels, forming blood clots, causing vascular hardening, poor blood circulation, reduced blood supply to important organs such as the heart and brain, and easily causing coronary heart disease.

6. Drink water when thirsty

Due to the high temperature, the body will lose water faster, and many people are used to drinking water in big gulps. Drinking a lot of water quickly can also cause red blood cells to rupture and reduce the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity. Especially for people with coronary heart disease, they will experience symptoms such as chest tightness and shortness of breath, and severe cases may lead to myocardial infarction.

There are usually some signs before the onset of coronary heart disease. Many patients have lost their precious lives because they are not aware of the symptoms. Therefore, it is important for patients and their families to fully understand the signs of coronary heart disease to reduce the mortality rate of coronary heart disease.

(1) The body will be extremely tired and feel weak in the limbs. Sometimes there will be sudden symptoms such as panic and blacking in front of the eyes. In severe cases, the patient may suddenly faint.

(2) Chest tightness, shortness of breath, and difficulty breathing. In severe cases, even if the patient is sleeping soundly at night, he will suddenly wake up and feel as if a big stone is pressing on his chest and he cannot breathe. He must sit up or stand to relieve the pain.

(3) Chest pain and palpitations are also the most common symptoms before the onset of coronary heart disease. They are usually more obvious when doing physical labour or physical fatigue. There is a sudden colic behind the sternum and radiates to the left shoulder and left upper arm. It lasts for several minutes to more than ten minutes. The symptoms are relieved after rest.

Some patients do not have any special symptoms before the onset of the disease. Only when an electrocardiogram is performed can symptoms such as myocardial ischemia or arrhythmia be found.

The first thing: The first thing a coronary heart disease patient should do when waking up in the morning is not to dress hastily, but to lie on his back for 5 to 10 minutes.

Early morning is a time when angina pectoris and myocardial infarction occur frequently in patients with coronary heart disease, especially when they just wake up. After getting up, patients with coronary heart disease should massage the front area of ​​the heart and the head, take a deep breath, yawn, stretch, move their limbs, etc., and then slowly sit up, get out of bed, and dress.

When sleeping, patients with coronary heart disease should adopt a right-side lying position with the head high and the feet low, which can relax the muscles of the whole body, make breathing smooth, and prevent the heart from being compressed. It can also ensure the oxygen supply of the whole body in the sleeping state, which is conducive to the brain getting a full rest and reduces the occurrence of angina pectoris. Sleeping with the head high and the feet low can reduce the amount of blood returning to the heart, and can also greatly reduce the heart load, which is conducive to the heart "rest".

The second thing: drink a glass of "safe water".

Water has the effects of pain relief, sedation, blood dilution, heat dissipation, lubrication, diuresis, and nutrition delivery. Studies have shown that water is closely related to the onset of coronary heart disease.

Medical research has found that if you pay attention to drinking three cups of "life-saving water" - warm water (400ml/cup) before going to bed, at night and in the early morning, replenishing the body's water in time, reducing blood viscosity, and speeding up blood flow, you can effectively reduce the onset of coronary heart disease.

According to statistics, angina pectoris and myocardial infarction often occur during sleep or in the morning. People consume some water at night due to breathing and sweating, and they also consume more water when they get up at night. Lack of water at night will increase blood viscosity, reduce blood flow, platelet aggregation, and atherosclerotic blood vessels will be more prone to embolism. When the embolus falls into the cerebral artery, coronary artery and its branches, the myocardium may have acute blood supply insufficiency and cause necrosis. Especially for middle-aged and elderly people with coronary heart disease, paying attention to drinking water is one of the important healthcare methods to prevent the onset of coronary heart disease.

The daily water intake should be no less than 4%-6% of body weight. Do not drink too much at one time and too fast. Drink small amounts and multiple times. It is best to drink warm water at 45°C. Long-term drinking of good water rich in minerals can improve the body's metabolism, allowing the body to enter a continuous virtuous cycle, and will not provide an environment and conditions for the growth of bad cells, so that the body will become healthier and healthier.