High blood pressure may be physiological or a reaction to stress or anxiety. Your blood
pressure will be checked regularly throughout your pregnancy. There are many things you can
do to help maintain a healthy blood pressure.
Suggestions:
- Exercise regularly
- Maintain a healthy, balanced diet, containing plenty of raw fruits and vegetables
- Protein is very important in preventing high blood pressure and ecclampsia, you need at least 80 according to Dr. Brewer. grams of protein daily
- Limiting red meat can help you maintain a lower blood pressure, make sure you are getting protein from other sources
- Salt your food to taste, do not eliminate salt from your diet
- Cucumbers help reduce blood pressure
- Avoid stress where possible
- Instead of coffee, tea, or colas, drink: raspberry leaf, nettles, limeflower or dandelion teas
- Juice of half a lemon or lime plus two teaspoons of cream of tartar in a half a cup of water once a day for three days, lowers your blood pressure, if needed, repeat after a break of two days
- 2-4 capsules of Passionflower daily, or 15 drops of the tincture three times a day, continue for several weeks for the most benefit
If you develop pre-ecclampsia:
- Include potassium rich foods into your diet (bananas, and lightly cooked potato peel)
- A minium of 2400 calories a day are required
- Drink Raw beet juice to balance the sodium/potassium ratio in your blood, about 4 ounces daily
- Take a B complex taken daily with 100mg B6 or brewer's yeast
- Young dandelion leaves are excellent sources of calcium and potassium, this will vitalize your kidneys and reduce edema
