The key to prevent and treat low potassium is to supplement potassium. Clinically, 10% potassium chloride solution can be taken orally, but the safest and most effective method is to eat more foods rich in potassium, especially fruits and vegetables. Fruits rich in potassium include bananas, strawberries, oranges, grapes, grapefruit and watermelons. Vegetables such as spinach, yam, edamame, amaranth and scallion are also rich in potassium, and soybeans, mung beans, broad beans, kelp, laver, yellow croaker, chicken, milk and corn flour also contain a certain amount of potassium. All kinds of fruit juices, especially orange juice, are also rich in potassium, which can supplement water and energy. It is determined that it contains 1. 1% ~ 2.3% potassium, so tea is the best summer drink.
Potassium is an indispensable substance to sustain life. Together with sodium, it regulates the balance of water in the body and makes the heartbeat regular. Potassium is very important for chemical reactions in cells and plays a very important role in helping to maintain stable blood pressure and the conduction of nerve activities.
Potassium deficiency will reduce the excitability of muscles, make the contraction and relaxation of muscles unable to proceed smoothly, and it is easy to get tired. In addition, it will also hinder the peristalsis of the intestine and cause constipation; It can also cause edema, hemiplegia and heart attack. When potassium intake is insufficient, sodium will bring a lot of water into cells, causing cell rupture and edema. Lack of potassium in the blood will raise blood sugar, leading to hyperglycemia. In addition, potassium deficiency is the most serious damage to the heart, and potassium deficiency may be the main cause of heart disease death.
The main symptoms of potassium deficiency in human body are tachycardia and arrhythmia, muscle weakness, numbness, irritability, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hypotension, insanity and psychological indifference.
Children should take 1600 mg of potassium every day, and adults should take 2000 mg every day. Potash-containing foods include dairy products, fish, fruits, beans, meat, poultry, unprocessed grains and green leafy vegetables, such as apricots, bananas, beer yeast, brown rice, figs, garlic, raisins and sweet potatoes. Magnesium helps to maintain potassium in cells, while consuming too much sodium, alcohol and sugar; Taking diuretics, light drugs, corticosteroids and excessive psychological pressure will hinder the absorption of potassium.
Potassium supplementation
Potassium is widely distributed in natural foods and is generally not lacking in daily diet. If the diet is unbalanced, people tend to eat meat, eggs, polysaccharides and salt, while eating less food, beans, vegetables and fruits, the intake of potassium will decrease. Unreasonable cooking, cooking stuffing into vegetable juice and eating vegetables to get soup, is equivalent to eating "low-potassium vegetables", and a lot of potassium is lost invisibly.
Foods with high potassium content include fresh broad beans, Malingbu, yam, spinach, amaranth, kelp, laver, black dates, apricots, almonds, bananas, walnuts, peanuts, mung beans, soybeans, mung beans, edamame, lamb loin and pork loin.
In medicine, frequent and long-term cold hands and feet can be called "chills".
It can be prevented and self-regulated if it is not very serious (generally not very serious, not unbearable biting cold).
First, strengthen physical exercise.
Especially those who sit for a long time or stand for a long time, we must pay attention to intermittent exercise, do more hands and feet and waist activities, and strengthen blood circulation.
Second, pay attention to diet.
Eat more warm food to improve the body's cold tolerance. Common warm foods are: cow, sheep, dog, chicken, garlic, pepper, ginger, onion, yam, longan and so on.
Third, three recipes
1. Fried mutton with shredded ginger
Slice the mutton. Shred ginger.
Add a little oil to the pot and bring it to a high fire. When the oil smokes, add pepper and star anise, stir-fry until fragrant, add shredded ginger, stir-fry, add mutton slices, add salt and monosodium glutamate, and pour sesame oil out of the pot.
2. Red dates and wolfberry mutton soup
Cut the mutton into eight pieces and soak the bleeding water in a boiling pot for later use. Wash jujube and wolfberry for later use.
Add water to the pot, add mutton, onion, ginger and aniseed and cook together. When it is half cooked, add jujube, medlar and salt, and then cook. If you don't like the taste of mutton, you can add one or two pieces of orange peel to increase dates to reduce the smell.
3. Three spice peppers
Red pepper (choose pepper varieties according to the spicy degree of food), put it on the fire and dry it until it is close to burnt; Peanuts, fried until crisp (sesame seeds can also be used); Bake the scallion on the fire until the outer layer is burnt, and peel off the outer layer.
Mash the above three raw materials in a mortar, then mix them together and add salt and monosodium glutamate.
For friends who like spicy and coarse grains, this dish is the most delicious-the participation of three spices in pancakes and stuttering is the most enjoyable. When eating "Golden Pagoda" (Wotou), it is also a pleasure to put three spices in the hole of Wotou!
The above dishes must be useful for friends who are afraid of the cold. Try them.