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High blood pressure
My mother aged 55 is suffering from high bp and this was not from early age it has begun now from a month only. What food is recommended for such condition and any other recommendation related for the same.
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Low fat diet, Green leafy vegetables, avoid outside foods , low to normal salt diet ,
Not very low salt diet, because it may predispose to hyponatremia in future
If after this high BP persist you should start medicine according to your BP spikes level
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Ideally patient should follow DASH diet
Try to limit salt intake to 5gm in a day(low salt diet)
Add legumes , fresh green vegatables in diet
Try to monitor BP recordings at home
If consecutive readings of BP shows high value then medicine needs to be started...
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