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Helpful Blood Pressure Reminders

• Have your blood pressure checked by your doctor.
• If you have high blood pressure, follow your doctor’s advice about changing your diet and lifestyle habits.
• If your doctor has prescribed medication for your high blood pressure, it is very important to take it regularly.  If you have any new symptoms, call your doctor.
• Measure and record your blood pressure at home regularly.  This information may be valuable to your doctor in evaluating your condition.
• Cooperate.  You and your doctor must work together in order to keep your blood pressure and your diabetes under control.

 Understanding Why High Blood Pressure Is A Problem
Generally, normotension (normal blood pressure) is defined as less than 130mmHg for systolic value (SBP) and less than 85mmHg for diastolic value (DBP). The higher the blood pressure, the more load on the blood vessels, and this can damage the vessels. In the worst case, blood vessel walls can develop holes causing internal bleeding. When this happens in the brain, it is called a stroke. In addition, high blood pressure increases the myocardial workload so that the heart must work harder to maintain adequate blood flow to the body. This causes ischemic heart disease (IHD) such as a heart attack (myocardial infarction) and angina. People with hypertension have the increased risk of suffering from of having a stroke. Conversely, It is also known that those with normal blood pressure have a lesser risk of ischemic heart disease (myocardial infarction and angina) and stroke. Thus, it can be concluded that keeping blood pressure within a normal range to prevent these occurrences is of the utmost importance.

Checklist for Lowering Your Sodium Intake by the American Heart Association:

• Don't use salt during cooking. (Try a salt-free seasoning substitute.)
• Don't salt food before you taste it.
• Substitute herbs and spices as food flavoring
• Eat less salted potato and corn chips, lunchmeat and hot dogs, salt pork, ham hocks, dill pickles and many canned foods. All of these have a lot of salt.
• Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and less canned or frozen ones.
• Use fresh fruit and raw vegetables as snacks instead of chips or salted nuts.
• Look at food labels — many canned and frozen foods say "low salt" or "low sodium."
• Select unsalted nuts or seeds, dried beans, peas and lentils.
• Avoid adding salt and canned vegetables to homemade dishes.
• Select unsalted, fat-free broths, bouillons or soups.
• Select fat-free ("skim") milk or low-fat milk, low-sodium, low-fat cheeses, as well as low-fat yogurt.
• When dining out, be specific about what you want and how you want it prepared. Request your dish to be prepared without salt.
• Learn to use spices and herbs to enhance the taste of your food.

Regular Walking Improves Your Health, Both Mentally and Physically

• Ability to regulate body temperature
• Life span
• Aerobic capacity
• Mental Capacity
• Balance
• Metabolic Rate
• Blood sugar
• Mood
• Bond density
• Muscle mass and tone
• Cartilage and joint health
• Overall general health
• Circulation
• Quality of life and sleep
• Energy level and endurance
• Reaction time
• Flexibility/range of motion
• Feeling of accomplishment
• HDL (good) cholesterol
• Self-esteem
• Heart health
• Strength
• Joint Mobility

Six Steps to Healthy Living:

1. Stay Physically Active:  People often have misconceptions about the intensity and type of exercise needed to produce healthy benefits.  The best way to become physically active is to find something you enjoy doing when it’s convenient for you.
2. Eat Foods Low In Saturated Fats and Cholesterol:  The American Heart Association recommends that you limit your average daily cholesterol intake to less than 300 milligrams.
3. Maintain Proper Weight: Measurement of body fat composition is the key to long-term success.
4. Have Regular Medical Checkups: You and your doctor must work together to keep your health in check. 
5. Don’t Smoke or Use Other Tobacco Products: As soon as you stop smoking, your risk of heart disease and stroke starts to drop.
6. Have Your Blood Pressure Checked Regularly:  High blood pressure makes your heart work harder, which may add strain on the heart and arteries.  If you have high blood pressure, follow your doctor’s advice about changing your diet and lifestyle habits.

What you need to know about fevers

·        Fever defined and the causes:

      A fever is when the body’s temperature is higher than normal due to an infection.

      The fever is usually caused by a virus or bacteria. It is a way in which the body fights     

      infection. A fever is not dangerous, and does not always mean that a person has a   

      serious illness.

·        Treatment:

The prevailing idea seems to be that high fevers cause brain damage. This is essentially untrue. The truth is that the brain is able to act like a thermostat and keep the temperature from going beyond  a safe range; i.e. about 106.2 degrees. The only exceptions are devastating infections of the brain itself, as in bacterial meningitis, most of which are now prevented by immunization. Use a thermometer as a guide for temperature measurement. Usually, the infection is caused by a virus, and antibiotics do not help viral infections. If the infection is bacterial it can be treated with antibiotics prescribed by your doctor. While waiting for the medication to take effect,  the temperature can be brought down by warm water baths; cold water or ice water is not recommended as they can cause the blood vessels in the skin to constrict, and decrease the body’s ability to get rid of extra heat. Also, cold or chilly water will cause a child to shiver, which will increase the body’s internal heat. Additionally, you should do the following to provide extra comfort: 

1. Drink plenty of  clear fluid.
2. Dress as lightly as possible.
3. Keep the child cool.
4. NEVER use alcohol

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