What to do with low blood calcium

When hypocalcemia occurs, you cannot be blind in treatment, because without scientific treatment, it will not only delay the effect of treatment, but may also cause more impacts. Don't believe in some highly publicized advertisements. You can improve it through diet. Foods such as eggs, soy products, kelp, milk, etc. are more suitable for patients with hypocalcemia.

1. Don’t believe the exaggerated propaganda of some calcium products. As some advertisements claim, "good deposition and fast absorption", people are led to mistakenly believe that the body's absorption of calcium is a simple process. In fact, calcium first enters the blood, then forms calcium-containing cells, and then penetrates the outermost hard layer of the bone through a complex process of changes and is fixed to the bone inside. There are also advertisements claiming that their products have "particles several times smaller than ordinary products." In fact, the particle size is only a physical change and cannot fundamentally improve the body's absorption rate of calcium. Currently, the body's absorption rate of calcium in calcium supplements is only about 30%. In fact, there is no so-called "95%" absorption rate.

2. Try to get enough calcium from natural foods by improving your diet. Among the daily foods in the family, those that contain more calcium include milk, cheese, eggs, soy products, kelp, seaweed, dried shrimps, sesame, hawthorn, sea fish, vegetables, etc., especially milk. Every 100 grams of fresh milk contains 120 mg of calcium. If each person drinks 250 grams of milk a day, it can provide 300 mg of calcium; drinking 500 grams of milk a day can provide 600 mg of calcium; plus about 300 mg of calcium provided by other foods in the diet, it can fully meet the body's need for calcium. It is worth noting that when eating these calcium-rich foods, you should avoid eating too much phosphate, oxalic acid, and protein-rich foods to avoid affecting calcium absorption.

3. To test the calcium content, you should go to a regular hospital. The "single photon bone density tester" sold in stores and pharmacies can only measure the ulna and radius of the arm. The main harm of calcium loss is calcium deficiency in the lumbar spine and hip, so this test is inaccurate. Moreover, this type of instrument is a radiation source, and its radiation will have an impact on the body.

4. Among the daily foods in the family, those that contain more calcium include milk, cheese, eggs, soy products, kelp, seaweed, dried shrimps, sesame, hawthorn, sea fish, vegetables, etc., especially milk. Every 100 grams of fresh milk contains 120 mg of calcium. If each person drinks 250 grams of milk a day, it can provide 300 mg of calcium; drinking 500 grams of milk a day can provide 600 mg of calcium; plus about 300 mg of calcium provided by other foods in the diet, it can fully meet the body's need for calcium. It is worth noting that when eating these calcium-rich foods, you should avoid eating too much phosphate, oxalic acid, and protein-rich foods to avoid affecting calcium absorption.