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My grandma does not smoke or drink or do any sort for sudden reason for hypertension. She does exercise, yoga and eat healthy balanced diet. But out of nowhere, she vomits and cannot eat anything for almost 3 days and we put her in ICU due to severe weakness. She cannot eat, walk and her response while talking is slow. We have already performed major tests and ultrasounds like ECG, CRT scan etc resulting to no such internal stomach problem or any significant notice in results. A little bit of rise in sugar, that's it. I am very much worried and want to know other possibilities that the doctors are missing to find and how to lower the blood pressure. Please any help would be much much appreciated. God Bless!!

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Only other thought is to make sure they know how she was doing before so they know this is not just part of decline or debility and try to manage it with benign neglect...a lot of families even keep pictures of their loved one in sight to make it more obvious to staff that the ill or frail looking person they see is not how this person usually is...
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By all means include extra good stuff in her diet, but do not "sneak" anything to any patient. Do it openly, with the full knowledge - and probably to the complete indifference - of her physicians, or not at all. "Sneaking" of that sort is the kind of thing that gets complementary medicine a bad name: it's so hard to co-operate with people who don't tell you what they're doing.

And I agree that music can be very healing. But don't plug anything into her ears until you've checked that she isn't suffering head pain; and don't expect a busy ICU to welcome a whole new sound system either.

I hope you've been given more information, and that things are looking up? Please update.
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Shrestha, I tend to guess that grandma has been hiding or ignoring symptoms for quite a while. IF she had high blood pressure or sugar problems, did she ever discuss those with a doctor, or did she attempt to cure herself with exercise and diet? Is there a family history of stroke? She sounds like a very independent woman who would not want to worry anyone. Do not press her for details, just give her your support.
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I'm not sure if this will help in any way, but thought if I tell the story, it may...

I was on BP medication for high blood pressure for more than 15 years and it was going up. I checked myself into a medical program where they virtually eliminated all added sodium from the food they served. My bp dropped to normal overnight and has stayed normal, as long as I ensure that I don't include any prepared food (canned, frozen, restaurant, etc etc) with added sodium... to speak of.

The technique I was taught was that the mg of sodium to calories had to be 1:1 or lower. So for example, when purchasing salsa or tomato sauce, if the calories are 50 per serving, the amount of sodium listed has to be below 50mg. Typically you can find salsa and tomato sauces with 300-600+ mg of sodium. Can't eat in restaurants because there is no way to control what they cook with... My bp will go right up the day after eating something high in sodium. Bread is another culprit...

Her exercise is also important to keeping her bp within a good range. It is GREAT that she did exercise. If she stopped for any reason, or did some combination of very high sodium over a period of time and stopped exercising, that may have aggravated her situation as well.

I imagine you and your Grandma are facing much more complex issues than just that, but perhaps there is something in her diet that put her over the top and agitated it all.

My best wishes to you and hoping you can find a way to help through these challenging times. I'm sure the doctors will help, but in my experience... they rarely say much about life style and tend to recommend treatments of medication and surgery.
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This is going to sound goofy, but the only time my grandmothers BP went high was when she ate a bunch of those cream cheese mints. Like we make for weddings. She watched her sugar intake and it never happened again.
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Christmas, Thanksgiving goodies maybe? I had problems after eating cookies one time. I never eat sweets and it messed me up.
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Getting briefly medico-political, the anti-vaccine fanatics lead me to disrespect some alternative medical opinions. Yes, a VERY small number of people are harmed by vaccines, maybe. But it has been proved that vaccines don't cause autism. The man who said they did has been PROVED to be a fraud. Yet the number of measles and whooping cough epidemics increases every year.

"I got a flu shot and then I got sick." Well, that's probably because you were already exposed to the flu. Vaccines and clean water are the reasons we don't lose our children to disease any more the way we used to. Science! Don't believe EVERY word they say, but don't automatically disbelieve it either.

End of rant.
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Countrymouse...please understand that Mainstream Medicine "frowns" on anything "Natural" as they have been trained to do so. It is a part of a "Mind Control" under which we are all trained in one way or another. It's all so Big Pharma can continue to make Billions per yr. If we all knew about the Real Cures...they would be out of business and they make such a GRAND living from the deaths of our loved ones. Namaste
I know...from personal experience. She will have to "sneak" to get any real medicine into that body. They will Not allow it.
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This is a bit of different situation because my father in law was a long time smoker and had a stressful job, but he had sudden spikes in his blood pressure years ago and they thought is was an adrenal tumor(gland that sites on top of the kidneys). This was ruled out and then they found he had aortic and femoral aneuysms. He eventually had surgery for these. They controlled his blood pressure with medications and diet and exercise before surgery. Surgery was not a cure but it helped. Also there is a scientifically proven diet for hypertension callled DASH (Dietary Aopproaches to Stop Hypertension) which tells you what foods are helpful and not so helpful. You can find it on the internet.
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LightHealer, my mainstream medical family all laugh at me because I stand up for reflexology. I don't care. All I know is that the people who've tried it find it helpful; and the people who sneer at it generally haven't tried it. I use Bach rescue remedies when I can't sleep in spite of being almost psychotic with exhaustion - but I wouldn't dream of concealing it from my doctor. Let him snigger: I take one, I get to sleep. That's all the evidence I need.

I also agree that it is hard to be overly cynical about what big pharma gets up to. But the time and place to pursue this important debate is not ICU, over the body of your seriously sick relative. If you're not open with your doctors, you can't turn round and blame them when things go wrong.

I would also point out that big pharma makes its really big money from keeping people alive and ailing. Which is if anything even more repellant of them… But there you are. You pays your money and you takes your choice - if you really don't trust mainstream doctors, then don't seek their advice.
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