What diseases can blood viscosity cause

High blood sugar is a chronic disease that can easily induce many complications, the most common of which are high blood pressure and high blood lipids. In addition to these, the patient's blood viscosity will generally increase, and there will be many complications. In fact, the increased blood viscosity can cause great harm, so patients need to pay attention to it, do relevant preventive work, and understand some of the dangers of high blood viscosity.

What are the factors that lead to increased blood viscosity?

1. Blood cell factors

Abnormalities in the number and size of blood cells, as well as blood cell status, red blood cell deformability and platelet function can all lead to increased blood viscosity.

2. Plasma Factors

Plasma proteins and blood sugar as well as blood lipids and fibrinolytic activity are all factors that affect blood viscosity, especially fibrinogen and immunoglobulins, which have a greater impact.

3. Vascular factors

Increased blood viscosity is related to the length and diameter of blood vessels and the smoothness of the blood vessel walls. When these obstacles occur, blood viscosity will remain at a relatively high state for a long time, and hyperviscosity will occur. Hyperviscosity is very harmful to diabetic patients and will cause blood stasis and insufficient blood supply.

It can also lead to adverse symptoms such as vascular damage, local hypoxia, sugar deficiency, and acidosis, which will eventually accelerate the occurrence and development of diabetes' large blood vessels, microvascular and neurological complications, affecting the treatment of diabetes.

How to prevent and treat high blood viscosity?

Diet therapy: Patients should keep their diet light and adhere to the low-sugar diet principle. They should eat more vegetables and fruits, more fish, and more fungal foods such as fungus and mushrooms. They should also drink more tea to lower blood pressure and blood lipids. Taking measures to lower blood sugar, blood pressure and lipids will help reduce blood viscosity.

Appropriate exercise: Patients must not stay at home for a long time. They should insist on participating in sports that suit them, which can enhance cardiopulmonary function and effectively reduce blood viscosity. You can do aerobic exercises such as jogging, walking, and strolling, and you can also practice Tai Chi, all of which can play a good role in exercise.

Quit smoking: Patients must quit smoking, but they can drink a small amount of alcohol, because smoking can cause drastic constriction of blood vessels and aggravate the condition of high blood viscosity.

Medication: If the patient has strong red blood cell aggregation, the drug pansantin can be used. If the patient has poor red blood cell deformability, oxathiapiprolin and adenosine triphosphate can be used. If the patient has elevated fibrinogen, urokinase and viper antithrombotic enzymes should be used.

Patients with strong platelet aggregation should be treated with sodium alginate diester and aspirin. You can also use some Chinese medicines that can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis for treatment, such as Chuanxiong and safflower, as well as angelica, red peony root, peach kernel and salvia miltiorrhiza.