How can I reduce my chance of getting high blood pressure while pregnant?
katie asked:
im 24 and when i was pregnant with my son I had high blood pressure and gained 70lbs
i want a healthier pregnancy this time so what can i do? what work outs are good during pregnancy and help lower blood pressure?
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im 24 and when i was pregnant with my son I had high blood pressure and gained 70lbs
i want a healthier pregnancy this time so what can i do? what work outs are good during pregnancy and help lower blood pressure?Kansieo.com
May 9th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
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Preeclampsia is high blood pressure and protein in the urine that develops after the 20th week of pregnancy.
There’s no known way to prevent preeclampsia. Eating less salt or changing your activities during pregnancy doesn’t reduce the risk. The best way to take care of yourself — and your baby — is to seek early and regular prenatal care. If preeclampsia is detected early, you and your doctor can work together to prevent complications and make the best choices for you and your baby.
There’s some evidence that taking certain vitamins, such as vitamin D, may lower the risk of preeclampsia. Ask your doctor what he or she recommends. Don’t take anything during pregnancy without your doctor’s approval
May 10th, 2009 at 12:03 am
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1. Meditation has been proven to be an excellent way to lower blood pressure. Try this. It is very simple and helps you relax plus you can fall asleep much easier and rest peacefully.
Dwell on your breath without meddling with it. Feel the air flowing through your nose as it moves in and out. Keep your focus on your nose. Keep your mouth closed. Continue to do this.
Soon you will become aware that you have become very relaxed. This will lower your blood pressure. Just let yourself drift off to sleep if you are doing it when you go to bed.
2. Another way to lower blood pressure is to take deep breaths and let them out with a sigh. Allow all your tension to flow out with the breath. Let your chest, neck and facial muscles go lax.
3. Tune into your body by tightening your muscles for a few moments and then releasing them. Get the feel of what tension feels like and what being relaxed feels like.
Use these techniques together when you are drifting off to help you sleep peacefully and wake up feeling rested.
4. Yoga is another way to lower blood pressure.
5. Get a book on non-strenuous stretching exercises. Stretching releases tension built up in the muscles.
6. Do not smoke. Smoke is polluted air. When you breathe in smokey air, it puts a strain on the heart and lungs because of the extra work for the body to deal with toxins. The capillaries (mini veins which feed oxygen and nutrients to tissues) CONSTRICT reducing the flow to tissues, eyes, brain, kidneys and other organs.
Instantly, the blood pressure goes up with each breathful of smoke because of the constricting vessels.
Over time, the skin develops wrinkles. If you have a compromised organ, the lack of nutrients and oxygen will cause it to become receptive to disease (cancer).
7. First thing in the morning and last thing at night, take some deep breaths to fill your body with oxygenated blood.
8. Talk to your doctor about pre-natal vitamin/minerals. Too much potassium, calcium or sodium throws your electrolytes off. Calcium contracts, potassium relaxes the muscles. When you experience cramps in your large muscles, it is an indication that your heart may be next. Your doctor needs to know what you are taking, and if you develop muscle cramping, see your doctor for a blood test to monitor your electrolytes.
Take care. Good luck, hope I helped.
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May 13th, 2009 at 10:22 am
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Just because a woman has high blood pressure during her pregnancy doesn’t mean that the pregnancy will not proceed as normal and that there won’t be a healthy baby delivered. But the truth is that when a woman’s blood pressure is high during her pregnancy, it can be dangerous for both the mother and the baby. It is also true that those women who are predisposed to high blood pressure or who have pre-existing or chronic high blood pressure are much more likely to have complications than those women that have normal blood pressure.
There is a wide range of possible effects of high blood pressure during pregnancy. High blood pressure can damage the kidneys or other organs of the mother or, the most serious cases, the mother could develop preeclampsia — or “toxemia of pregnancy” — which can threaten the lives of both the mother and the baby.
Preeclampsia usually starts at about the fifth month of pregnancy. Preeclampsia has adverse affects on the placenta, and it can affect the mother’s kidneys, liver, and brain. Preeclampsia can also cause the mother to have seizures. The affects of preeclampsia on the baby can be low birth weight, premature birth, and stillbirth.
There are things that women can do to help prevent the problems caused by high blood pressure during pregnancy. First, if a woman has pre-existing or chronic high blood pressure she should talk to her doctor before becoming pregnant, so that both can assess the risks involved.
During pregnancy, a woman can:
1. Not smoke
2. Control her weight and weight gain
3. Maintain a regular exercise program
4. Limit the intake of salt
5. Get regular prenatal checkups
We all want healthy, full-term, babies. High blood pressure during pregnancy isn’t always a problem, but it can be a problem. Be sure that you see your doctor and take all of the precautions that you can.
Good luck with everything