Wanting to start family, have high blood pressure?

Women with high blood pressure are at higher risk for certain complications during pregnancy, such as preterm birth and fetal growth restriction. The higher the blood pressure is the greater the risk for complications during the pregnancy. Controlling the blood pressure prior to and during the pregnancy will reduce these risks. It is important that you discuss this with your OB prior to the pregnancy so that you can do everything possible to reduce any complications prior to the pregnancy. They may want to perform certain tests to evaluate for any complications of high blood pressure (e.g. kidney disease) prior to your pregnancy. Your OB may refer you to a Maternal-Fetal Specialist that specializes in high risk pregnancies.

Certain medications are contraindicated in pregnancy due to the risk of abnormalities in the fetus. Cozaar is one of these medications and you would need to stop this and start another blood pressure medication. The preferred blood pressure lowering medications in pregnancy are Methyldopa and Labetolol. It would be important to make this transition some time prior to conception to ensure that your blood pressure is well controlled on the new regimen. Blood pressure does tend to decrease normally with pregnancy and your doctor will want to monitor it more frequently than usual. There are many women with high blood pressure that have normal pregnancies and healthy babies. Just make sure you are getting the proper care to ensure this happens with your pregnancy. Good luck.

Lowering sodium (salt) wasn’t such a smart move.

Yeah, I know your doctor told you to do it, but he’s as knowledgeable on high blood pressure as a teenager. Salt does not cause high blood pressure – it regulates it. Cutting back on salt will cause dehydration and high blood pressure.

You already have high blood pressure and you’re taking medications for it – when will you be able to stop the medications? The answer is NEVER. So, if you can’t stop the medications, you can forget having a child, unless you take a gamble and do it anyway – is it worth it?

You want to be safe, happy and have a child. Here’s how you can do it…..

Increase your water and salt intake according to the protocol you’ll find by clicking on the link below. As a matter of fact, you’ll also find a list of supplements – get them and take them. Remember, everything you put in your mouth goes into the baby’s system. So taking care of yourself will have a positive outcome where your baby is concerned. There’s also a theory that taking care of yourself will help your child to develop good healthy habits, as well.

If you have high blood pressure now, then you’re dehydrated – because this is what causes high blood pressure.

When you don’t drink enough water, the cells don’t get the proper nutrients they need and so they begin to malfunction – water and salt are the delivery system that nourishes the cells.

When the body senses a drought condition, it rations the water to make it available to the most important organs, such as the brain, liver, etc. Then the body searches for other water sources to inject into the cells. Because the blood is made up of 94% water and salt, this is one of the more common sources for fresh water. Borrowing water from the blood causes the arteries to constrict and the blood to thicken – much like a sauce thickens on the stove top as the water evaporates.

This requires the heart to have to exert more pressure to pump the blood through the cardiovascular system – and showing up as high blood pressure.

Another thing that happens when the blood thickens is the salt that was mixed with the water gets concentrated (just the water was removed, not the salt). Doctors see this concentrated salt and call it "excess" – and use this as the blame for the high blood pressure. But this is wrong. It is not "excess" – it’s the same amount that was there all along, it just had the water removed. By telling you to cut back on salt, he is only making things worse. Salt retains water, and if not drinking enough water caused everything to happen in the first place, cutting back on salt will only cause you to retain less water – intensifying the dehydration.

Here’s a question or you – if salt was so bad for you, why is it that when you’re admitted into the hospital, the first thing they do is insert an IV needle in your arm containing a saline (water and salt) solution? And if this isn’t bad enough, the salt content is TWICE the recommended daily requirement. Sometimes multiple IVs are given throughout the day.

If salt was so bad for us, we’d be in big trouble – our tissues are made up of 75% water and SALT. The brain is made up of 85% water and SALT. The blood is 94% water and SALT. With this much salt in our system, we should all be walking coronary cases. We should be able to sit on a park bench and watch people explode from such high blood pressure.

Your doctor is in this game for the same reason anyone else is into whatever they’re into – to make money. Why else would they charge you $385 for a water and salt solution in the hospital – to prevent / treat dehydration, and yet, doesn’t recognize dehydration outside the hospital and doesn’t instruct you on how to prevent / treat dehydration at home for free (orally, not intravenously)?

The link below is worth $385, based on the above figure – I give it to you for free.
Also, you might be interested in solving other health problems as easily as you can correcting your high blood pressure.

It’s all simple, really – literally. Simple. You’re not sick, you’re thirsty.

Finally, another link to dispel the "salt is bad for you" myth.