Nowadays, various medical and health newspapers and periodicals, a "fashionable disease" called hyperviscosity, appear frequently. So, why does good blood become sticky? What's the harm of blood becoming sticky? < br />

Blood is constantly circulating in the body, and the speed of flow is not constant. For example, it is much slower in a quiet state than in exercise, as long as it is within the normal range, it will not affect health. However, sometimes, the flow speed slows down to below the normal range, and even the drawn blood can't be pushed out of the needle tube quickly, or the tube is blocked due to reflux blood coagulation during intravenous infusion, which indicates that the blood is obviously thickened. Thickened blood flows more slowly, which makes the oxygen and nutrients obtained by the tissues of the body relatively reduced, and secondly, it is more dangerous that red blood cells gather because of it, forming blood clots to block blood vessels, inducing myocardial infarction or cerebral infarction and endangering life-this is the most terrible consequence of thickening blood. < br />

1) blood viscosity factor <; br />

1. Water is the immediate factor of blood viscosity. Jia Baoyu has a famous saying in A Dream of Red Mansions: Daughters are made of water. In fact, men are also made of water, because water accounts for more than half of people's weight, especially the flowing blood, which is composed of more than 9%. Excessive sweating, taking diuretics, diarrhea, etc. can cause the loss of water in the body, which can reduce the blood volume, resulting in the relative increase of tangible components (red blood cells, etc.) in the blood and the natural increase of blood viscosity. < br />

2. Tangible components are the material basis of blood viscosity. The visible components that can thicken blood include red blood cells and protein. The more red blood cells are, the weaker their brittleness is, and the higher their blood viscosity is. The more protein, fat and sugar in plasma, the thicker the blood; The influence of fibrinogen content in blood on blood viscosity can not be ignored. When fibrinogen increases, blood viscosity will increase obviously. Protein components, such as globulin and fibrinogen, in blood increase, and they bond with red blood cells to form a network, which increases the resistance of blood flow. < br />

3. The structure of red blood cells and platelets changed, and they condensed into blocks, blocking blood vessels. < br />

4. The deformability of cells in blood, such as red blood cells, is weakened and they cannot pass through small blood vessels smoothly, thus increasing the viscosity of blood. < br />

5. Non-blood factors that make blood sticky. Under the same conditions, some environmental factors also affect blood viscosity, such as high blood viscosity in summer and low blood viscosity in winter; High in the morning and morning, low in the evening and afternoon; Rainy, sultry, low air pressure is high, sunny and sunny is low; High after a thick diet and low after a light diet; Diarrhea and sweating are high, and drinking enough water is low. Some of the above factors are related to water balance, some are related to the increase of visible components in blood, and some are related to human biological clock. Understanding these laws is helpful to prevent blood from being sticky and related diseases from rising. < br />

2) Symptoms of blood viscosity <; br />

1. Dizziness, unconsciousness and slow thinking in the morning. Generally, after breakfast, the mind gradually becomes sober. < br />

2. I feel sleepy after lunch and need to sleep for a while, otherwise I will be listless all afternoon. On the contrary, I am in a particularly good state of mind after dinner. < br />

3. Squatting down to work and panting. When squatting, the blood returning to the heart and brain is reduced, and the lungs, brains and other organs are ischemic, resulting in difficulty breathing, so there is asthma. < br />

4. Paroxysmal blurred vision. The blood becomes thick, the flow rate slows down, the blood can't fully nourish the optic nerve, or the optic nerve or retina is temporarily ischemic and hypoxic, and things are blurred. < br />

If the middle-aged and elderly people have the above symptoms, they should be suspected of blood viscosity, and it is best to go to the hospital for examination of hemorheology in order to establish a diagnosis. < br />

4) prevention and treatment of blood viscosity <; br />

1. Drink plenty of water: Pay attention to the timing of drinking water, such as before getting up in the morning, before eating every meal (1 hour) and before going to bed. It is best not to be less than 2 ml per day. < br />

2. Choose foods that can dilute blood: these foods include hawthorn, auricularia auricula, garlic, onion, shallot, bell pepper, mushroom, strawberry, pineapple, lemon, etc., which can inhibit platelet aggregation and prevent thrombosis; Anticoagulant foods similar to aspirin are hawthorn, tomato, red grape, orange and ginger. There are hawthorn, spirulina, celery, carrot, konjac, laver, kelp, purslane, walnut, corn, sesame, apple, kiwi and so on. < br />

3. Reasonable diet: eat less animal offal and animal fat, eat less fried food, and eat more meaty food and less sweets for dinner. Usually, it is advisable to eat light food, mainly vegetarian, with coarse and fine grains. < br />

4. Eat more foods rich in lecithin: eat more soybeans and bean products, eggs and fish. Conducive to improving blood viscosity, but thrombus is not easy to form. < br />

5. Eat more fruits and vegetables containing vitamin C: Vitamin C can regulate blood lipid; The fiber in vegetables can prevent the absorption of cholesterol in the intestine and reduce the blood viscosity. < br />

6. Keep exercising: for example, walking, jogging, playing Tai Ji Chuan, playing badminton, climbing mountains and swimming can promote blood circulation. < br />

7. Drug therapy: under the guidance of a doctor, choose some anticoagulants and drugs that can reduce blood viscosity, such as commonly used beneficial cardione, sodium alginate, enteric-coated aspirin, tea pigment, streptokinase and Agkistrodon halys antithrombotic enzyme; You can also choose some drugs for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, such as compound Danshen tablets, angelica tablets, Gynostemma pentaphyllum, Ligusticum chuanxiong, dipyridamole (dipyridamole) and so on. < br />

8. No smoking: it will affect blood circulation, reduce blood flow and blood flow speed, which may lead to bad results. < br />

9. Regular physical examination: People over 5 years old should have hemorheological examination and platelet aggregation test. According to the examination results, take effective protective measures to reduce the occurrence of embolic diseases. At the same time, we can dynamically observe the blood viscosity index, so as to know fairly well. < br />

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