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Water drinken bij te lage bloeddruk.
Uit een kleine Britse studie onder patiënten met lage
bloeddruk deed men een verrassende ontdekking dat het drinken van 2 glazen water
helpt de bloeddruk te verhogen waardoor problemen zoals flauwvallen vooromen
kunnen worden.
Water Helps Those With Low
Blood Pressure
Buoys health of people who can
faint while standing
Plain tap or
bottled water may buoy the health of people with low blood pressure who faint while they're standing, says a British study
in the latest issue of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.
The study of 14
patients with low blood pressure caused by autonomic
failure found that drinking two glasses of water can help increase their blood
pressure.
People with
autonomic failure have improper functioning of parts of the nervous system that
control involuntary body functions such as blood pressure, heart rate and
sweating.
"This
surprising discovery that water can have such an effect on blood pressure could
help us to treat both sufferers of autonomic failure, and many people who suffer
from low blood pressure generally, especially those who faint, such as with vasovagal syncope," study author Christopher Mathias, a
professor at Imperial College London and St. Mary's Hospital, said in a prepared
statement.
"While
autonomic failure itself is generally not life-threatening, it can have a
significant impact on an individual's quality of life. People with low blood
pressure caused by autonomic failure are at greater risk of fainting when standing upright, after food or even after mild
exertion," Mathias said.
"This can
affect their life in many ways, stopping them from driving or, in extreme cases,
from being able to work. This discovery could be of considerable use in helping
these patients to understand why this happens. It may also benefit the many
without autonomic failure who faint as a result of low blood pressure," he
said. (Dec. 2004)
(opm. voldoende water drinken is voor iedereen voor een goede gezondheid belangrijk.)