Diet to prevent myocardial infarction

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Due to the cold weather in early spring, myocardial infarction is more frequent in middle-aged and elderly people. Good eating habits and correct food therapy can effectively prevent the occurrence of myocardial infarction. So how to prevent myocardial infarction in diet? What can we eat? Let's have a look.

Diet to prevent myocardial infarction

Generally speaking, we should not overeat the food with high cholesterol, control the amount of salt and avoid the irritating food. Diet should be light, eat more digestible food, there should be enough vegetables and fruits. In order to reduce the burden of heart, obese patients should control their food intake. Should often eat vegetable oil and vitamins, eat millet, oats, barley, beans, mushrooms, fungus and other food. 　　

Pay attention to the balance of water and electrolyte. Patients with a history of myocardial infarction should pay attention to the content of water in diet, which should be considered together with the amount of drinking water and infusion, so as to adapt to the load capacity of the heart. If patients with myocardial infarction have hypertension or heart failure, the intake of sodium salt and excessive water should be limited. The content of water in food should be considered together with the amount of drinking water and infusion, so as to adapt to the load capacity of the heart. If the patient is accompanied with hypertension or heart failure, sodium salt should be limited, but it is also observed that there is sodium loss in urine after acute myocardial infarction, so it should be adjusted according to blood biochemical indexes.

In spring, the weather is repeated, and the temperature is sometimes high and sometimes low. We must pay attention to weather changes and keep warm. There are many old people who like morning exercise. In fact, this habit is not very good. Early morning to nine or ten o'clock in the morning is the time of high incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, the elderly had better avoid this time period. With the same amount of activity, the probability of myocardial infarction and angina pectoris in the afternoon is much lower than that in the morning.

matters needing attention

In order to prevent myocardial infarction in spring, we should pay attention to diet, daily life and premonitory symptoms of myocardial infarction. Generally speaking, the premonitory symptoms of myocardial infarction often appear one week before the onset, a few patients even weeks in advance, about 40% of patients occur 1-2 days before the onset. Some patients do it more than once. Therefore, once the above symptoms occur, we must attach great importance to them and contact the doctor immediately to send them to the hospital as soon as possible.