High pressure: what to do?

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High pressure: what to do?Arterial hypertension can be not only an independent illness (essential arterial hypertension), but also act as a symptom. In this case, it is most often connected with kidney disease. Hypertension presents a serious threat to the work of small arteries, which entails a number of health problems, among which and brain stroke, and myocardial infarction, and blindness. Hypertensive should be remembered that increased pressure requires constant surveillance and treatment even with normalized state.


Signs of increased pressure

Previously believed that high blood pressure — Women's problem older than 40 years old, but now this pathology concerns many people regardless of age and gender. How to understand whether the person is hypertension? This disease is characteristic of such manifestations like redness of the face, the feeling of heat and dizziness, head and heart pain, vision. Despite the feeling of heat, the limbs are cold. Bright symptom of arterial hypertension — This «Mushkush», Which flashes before eyes and noise (ringing) in the ears. Well when signs are obvious, but in this case it is not always so. Often a person may not be aware of the existence of Hypertension since it does not appear in a more complex form. To avoid this, it is necessary to regularly monitor the indicators of its blood pressure.


How to lower high pressure?

  • Non-media methods:
Signs of increased pressure
  • Lifestyle. Will have to abandon bad habits and spend time walking in the fresh air, rest and exercise (without overwork).
  • Proper nutrition. People with extra kilograms enter the risk group by hypertension. Task: normalize weight, blood cholesterol and blood sugar. In the nutrition it is necessary to eliminate fast food and reduce saline consumption. Hypertension assistants will be products rich in potassium (bananas, dried fruits, tomatoes, potatoes, peas). Orange juice does not hurt. Dark chocolate helps to increase the elasticity of vessels and also helps to normalize blood pressure.
  • breath. Summary, unhurried breathing soothes and lowers the level of renin hormone, which promotes increase in pressure.
  • Medication methods:
    • Antihypertensive drugs (ACE inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor blockers, calcium channel blockers, beta-adrenoblays, diuretics). Their action is aimed at strengthening and expanding the walls of the vessels, they contribute to improved blood circulation. Drugs normalizing pressure reduce cholesterol levels (cholesterol plaques in vessels provoke pressure increases) and prevent the formation of thrombas. Prescribing medicinal funds should a doctor after a survey and diagnosis. Some people poorly carry a sharp decline in pressure, in such cases it is done in several approaches.
    • Emergency situations:
      • First of all, you need to call an ambulance. While she goes, the patient should be brought into a semi-attendant position (to avoid suffocation), give a medicine that it usually takes from pressure, and diuretic. If the condition does not improve and pain in the heart area will appear, nitroglycerin can be given under the tongue. To improve blood outflow, the patient's legs can be lowered into hot water. Fresh air access is needed if a person is indoors.
      • Do not be lazy once again contact your doctor for help.

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