OT Re: Low Blood Pressure

I have just had a high blood pressure scare, but mine is usually on the low end of normal. I tend to get up and see whole new constellations first thing in the morning. I've always been like this.

I dislike most salty food, so salting things is not an option. I'm surprised they told you to do this unless part of his problem is low sodium counts when they did a blood test (mine have always been normal).

A good varied diet, including plenty of fresh and cooked fruit and veg, paricularly bananas if his potassium count is low, regular aerobic exercise, and not stressing too much about it should improve things.

Wish I could help, but all my experience has been the other way round (what you would expect from an Aries person I guess >ggg< Not a laughing matter I know, just a gentle tease ...

Tell him to be patient, because it is much harder to get pressure up than it is to get it down; but, apart from falling, it is less dangerous on the whole I think. . In message , Sally Swindells writes

At least two of the grannies in the family had extremely low blood pressure and truly believed that a tiny glass of red wine in the evening helped. Might have just been a good excuse for 'hitting the bottle' but the pretty glasses they used were very small. Why don't you google around and see if red wine raises blood pressure? Just for medicinal purposes, of course. Polly

i fall asleep soon after starting to read a book. i'll be taking lots of lightweight crosswords in with me. they weigh less too. :)) j.

"Sally Swindells" wrote... DH has just spent 48 hours in hospital after suffering dizzy spells due to low blood pressure. They couldn't find an obvious cause and he is now back home and getting a 24hour moniter device next week.

He has been told to live a normal life except for driving or going for long walks on his own, and has been told to have plenty of salt on his food - to salt and then salt again.

I have filled the salt pot full, but has anyone got any more hints as to how to get the pressure higher (we have agreed that getting cross is not an option!).

He is not allowed to pass out as I strained my back carrying his 'overnight' bag full of reference books (he needed them for a talk he is writing and occupied himself with while in hospital) and so can't pick him up!

Sally, when my BP dipped too low my GP suggested Gatorade. I suppose it worked. Anyway, something you could ask the doc about. (Might be just the high sodium in Gatorade, I dunno) Hope this helps.

Sherry

I was trying to think of what was really Really good that was enormously salty and ta-dah! I remembered. Boiled peanuts. Pretzels. You'd think that I could have inherited my father's tall, dark handsome good looks or at least his beautiful long straight fingers. NAAAH. I inherited his ability to swell up like roadkill when I succumb to the boiled peanuts or pretzels. Sometimes I indulge. Next day I can open my puffy eyes. Only after a while. Polly