Many people, especially when the weather changes, complain of a headache, palpitations, heart failure, nausea, feeling unwell, sleep disturbance. Often the cause of this is high blood pressure. What to do in such cases? If you have long been suffering from hypertension, then, no doubt, you have drugs that lower it. Remember to take them on time and try to control your pressure. This should be done regularly, and not from case to case.
Sometimes an increase in pressure is not accompanied by a deterioration in well-being. However, it can cause serious complications, including strokes. Therefore, tablets for high blood pressure should always be with you. With this disease, they must be taken regularly throughout life. Normal pressure is 120/80 mmHg. pillar. With an increase in upper and lower pressure by 20 mm at rest, we can talk about a mild degree of hypertension. Pressure above 160/100 mm Hg. Art. may already threaten with complications.
Hypertensive patients are advised to relax more, avoid conflict situations, walk in the fresh air, engage in feasible physical labor. It is worth limiting the amount of liquid and salt when eating, stop smoking and alcohol. If you are overweight, switch to a corrective diet. It is known that in overweight people hypertension is more difficult.
If you first have high blood pressure, a doctor will explain what to do. If signs of the disease appear, you should definitely contact him. You may need to consult a cardiologist, nephrologist, endocrinologist or doctors of other specialties. The reasons for the increase in pressure can be various. First, it is necessary to exclude diseases of the internal organs and endocrine glands, which may be accompanied by hypertension.
For example, with kidney disease, there can often be high blood pressure. What to do in this case, a nephrologist will explain to you. Diseases of the thyroid gland and adrenal glands also occur with hypertension. When the examination does not reveal diseases that lead to an increase in pressure, then they usually diagnose hypertension.
What are the causes of the disease? Unfortunately, its etiology is not completely clear. With it, there is no primary lesion of any specific organs, but the increase in pressure is persistent. The main factor influencing its occurrence and development is considered to be prolonged or acute emotional overstrain. Predisposing factors are personality traits, the impact of the environment, heredity. As a result of all this, a violation of neurohumoral regulation develops , leading to an increase in pressure.
The onset of the disease in some cases is associated with periods of hormonal changes. So, for example, women in menopause often have high blood pressure. What if it began to bother you?
Perhaps, in this case, treatment will be needed not only at the therapist, but also at the gynecologist-endocrinologist. Acceptance of estrogenic drugs in many cases facilitates menopause and contributes to the normalization of pressure.
Medicines prescribed for hypertension are divided into several groups. These are centrally acting drugs, sympatholytics, calcium antagonists, adrenergic blocking agents, diuretics, ACE inhibitors. Combined treatment with drugs of various groups may be prescribed. In each case, treatment is prescribed individually.
In the initial stages, folk remedies in the form of herbal remedies are effective. These are collections, which include chokeberry, hawthorn, valerian, horsetail, cornflower, Scutellaria baicalensis, marsh cinnamon, motherwort and some other plants.
Regular and timely treatment of hypertension allows you to live fully and protects against complications. Do not forget about it. I wish you good health!