What is low blood pressure? What should I do to make it rise to a normal level, and cease to hurt my head? According to various sources, from 15 to 25% of the world's population suffers from hypotension. They, like hypertensive patients - people with high blood pressure, need to know everything about their disease and understand how to quickly put themselves on their feet.
Especially if hypotension manifests itself in youth and prevents self-realization. Due to reduced pressure, the brain does not work well, physical activity causes dizziness and sometimes a fainting state.
Low pressure. Causes
Why do some people have high blood pressure, while others have low blood pressure? Blood pressure is an individual physiological feature of the body. But all deviations from the norm by 20 units are already considered a disease. As you know, the tonometer readings 120 to 80 are the norm. And accordingly, a pressure of 100 to 60 is already hypotension.
The reasons may be such deviations:
- Inflammation and blood loss.
- Hormonal disorders.
- Vegetovascular dystonia is a nerve disease.
- Lack of sleep for a long time.
In addition, sedentary work and lack of physical activity leads to hypotension. An untrained heart does its job worse. But an overloaded heart muscle also, after all, works poorly over the years. Stress is exerted on the main muscular organ by those who have an increased responsibility for duty; working without days off and workaholics.
The same low blood pressure is observed in pregnant women due to changes in hormonal status. People who have recently had a viral infection can also experience such symptoms for some time if they have spent a lot of time with the temperature in bed.
Symptoms
Understanding that pressure is reduced is usually not difficult. Everyone knows - a lack of blood supply in the body causes weakness and dizziness. To confirm the guess, just measure your pressure. After all, a tonometer is in almost every family. And if not, then it urgently needs to be purchased.
When the pressure drops below 110, the average person already becomes ill. Especially for men. Disturbed concentration, reactions and perception. But there are people for whom moderately low blood pressure is the best condition. And for them, no action is needed. This is their genetic feature.
With hypotension observed:
- The feeling that a person does not have enough air.
- Headache, usually localized in the parietal zone.
- Lethargy, drowsiness and lethargy.
- A person’s hands quickly freeze in the cold.
- Frequent fainting.
Due to frequent fainting and poor concentration of attention, hypotonics are better off not driving. Blood pressure is recommended to constantly measure and try not to be nervous.
How common is hypotension?
Low blood pressure is a common disease among young women aged 20-30; especially among those who are too low in weight and who do not like physical activity. It occurs in young people who suffer severe stressful situations, for example, when a person learns and works.
And, of course, hypotension is characteristic of older people with heart problems. Arrhythmia, cardiomyopathy and heart failure - all these heart diseases are dangerous with a sharp drop in pressure. This is especially dangerous for them, and you need to come to the doctor more often.
Athlete Pressure
Professionally involved in sports usually have lower blood pressure than most. So their heart adjusts to overwork. At rest, blood pressure is slightly lower, but during training, the heart muscle squeezes as much as it can. Then it returns to the reduced load mode.
But if an athlete has low blood pressure and low heart rate, what should I do? Need to call an ambulance. Perhaps he has internal bleeding.
Hypotension in men
If in young women the main causes of hypotension are considered to be VSD and hereditary factors, then for men it is different. Men of our century in their free time sit at the computer, either playing or watching movies. Moreover, the work of many office workers is also sedentary.
Lack of movement leads to the fact that the body is weaned to "activate". Every young man 2 times a week needs to experience cardio. That is, to force yourself to run or swim.
Danger of hypotension
Hypotension is a very unusual disease - it prolongs life for many. The vessels do not suffer from blood pressure, and such a patient is not threatened with a heart attack or hemorrhagic stroke of the brain. The body wears out less. On the one hand, it’s good. But frequent fainting and chronic lethargy and fatigue make a person very unhappy. Young people fall out of the rhythm of life, cannot fully work.
People aged are constantly worried about the fact that they can fall on the street when they feel dizzy. The vast majority of the elderly have osteoporosis, and falling from a height of their own growth for them can be fraught with a bone fracture.
What else is the danger of low blood pressure in an elderly person? What to do to help him? Insufficient blood supply to the brain leads to the death of cells and, consequently, to a rapid decrease in mental activity. And such old people often develop dementia. It is necessary to try to interest elderly grandfathers in reading; or more often ask your grandmother to tie you a sweater. So you make their neurons work more and the death of brain tissue slows down.
Your attention, care and observance of the daily routine will be the best salvation. But if the elderly person still has low blood pressure, what should I do? Then you need to see a doctor who will identify the cause of the ailment and prescribe drugs.
What to do? Help tools
But still this is not a sentence - low pressure. What to do at home if hypotension constantly has a headache and nausea? At home, such a person needs to warm up at least a little. In no case should you lie all day in bed. It will be even worse.
A person with low pressure, unlike hypertension, is useful to drink natural coffee in the morning, eat chocolate. But cores still do not recommend these products.
But are old people often worried about low blood pressure? What to do at home in such situations? Instead of coffee, it perfectly tones the cinnamon drink. It is done simply. Enough half a teaspoon of cinnamon, pour warm water and add a little honey. You can drink the drink 2-3 times a day, and it is much better than coffee, because it is not addictive and has no negative consequences.
If a loved one, for example, has a very low blood pressure in the morning. What to do? Urgently run to the pharmacy or call an ambulance? Pressure 70 to 50 already threatens severe fainting. Usually in a medicine cabinet hypotonic there is ammonia, it is better to prepare it just in case.
If the person suffering from low blood pressure is in bed, he needs to be raised and planted. Such a person needs to be washed with cold water.
What is the first aid if hypotension is fainting? Let him breathe ammonia and make a cup of strong coffee, if a person does not recover for a long time even from ammonia, then it is already necessary to call an ambulance.
Low blood pressure in the elderly. What to do?
For a person older than 55 years, the norm changes. If at a young age, up to 20 years, a pressure of 115 by 75 is quite normal, then for older people this is far from the case. With age, the physiological norm increases, since the heart itself is aging. Sometimes a young man who suffers from hypotension at the age of 20-25 is cured of an illness when, at 50, with a physiologically natural increase in pressure, his indicators just reach 120 by 80, and dizziness and tiredness stop tormenting him.
For the older generation, different rules work. They can not push on tonic drugs, because the heart may not cope. Instead, you need to observe some of the basics of a healthy life:
- walk more in park areas;
- engage in physiotherapy exercises;
- instead of tea and coffee, drink medicinal herbs;
- go to bed and get up at the same time.
At low pressure, you can’t get out of bed abruptly in the morning. Such people should come to their senses a little, wake up completely and then slowly get out of bed. A sharp rise will cause orthostatic collapse.
Systolic pressure
Sometimes it happens that the upper pressure decreases, and the lower remains within the normal range. The superior is the force with which the heart ejects blood into the aorta. Sometimes systolic pressure is called simply - cardiac.
When systolic pressure drops below 80, a person usually starts vomiting. This condition is very dangerous and urgently needs to find the cause of the problem.
There may be several reasons:
- Hypotheriosis is a decreased thyroid function.
- Heart and valve problems.
- Blood clots in the legs.
- Neurosis.
- Anemia.
- Osteochondrosis.
- Normal subcooling.
After hypothermia and stress, systolic pressure temporarily drops. But if constantly low blood pressure, what to do? In such cases, you need to go to a consultation with a neurologist, then to an endocrinologist. Perhaps the whole point is VSD (vegetovascular dystonia), which is treated by a neurologist. But it is also possible that the patient's arteries that feed the brain were pinched. This is usually due to the development of osteochondrosis. Then the treatment tactics will be completely different.
How to help, what to do to make it easier? You can moisten regular gauze in vinegar and attach to the heels. Over time, it should become easier. The knowledge of traditional medicine will also come in handy. Eleutherococcus and ginseng tincture are considered useful from low blood pressure.
Hypotension pills
Nowadays, tablets have been developed to maintain pressure. These include neurometabolic stimulants and drugs to increase vascular resistance (OPSS).
So, when low pressure, what to do? First aid is provided in case of fainting. And pills are suitable for every day.
Drugs are taken only after consulting a physician. Of course, the doctor will not prescribe medications to those who have liver problems or kidney failure. There are other contraindications to pills.
Here are some common medications:
- Gutron
- Rantarin
- Ecdisten and others.
The doctor always takes into account the etiology of the disease of a particular patient. When treating, the state of the central and peripheral nervous system must be taken into account. One of the principles of medicine is adequate treatment, so a doctor cannot prescribe the same drugs to everyone. He should know all of your concomitant illnesses or allergies in order to avoid the aggravation of pills.
So you have low blood pressure, what to do? Tablets can be drunk only after consultation. And here and now a cold shower will help.
Another nuance should be identified. For low-pressure headaches, many drink citramone to help the pain go away. But these pills do not help raise the pressure, they only relieve the symptom - pain in the head. But your body is still bad.
The right lifestyle for hypotension
If you have low blood pressure, what should I do? First aid is tonic drugs: tonics or caffeine. But tonics should also not be abused. It is necessary to rebuild your life, and not sit "on doping."
Which lifestyle to follow: active or more passive? For those who suffer from low blood pressure, a uniform distribution of physical activity and rest is suitable. You need to sleep 8 hours a day. Near the TV, it’s better not to get stuck on Saturday for a day, and immediately start the morning with a walk or even jogging.
More often in the summer, get out for a picnic or fishing. Communication with nature will help activate the internal forces of the body. Positive emotions also act favorably on the heart, and pressure normalizes. But, of course, if there is excessive summer heat on the street, it will only get worse. You need to walk in the morning until 9 or 10 hours.
Food
What kind of nutrition is needed for hypotension? This diet should not be too harsh. On the contrary, a person suffers from excessive rigor in relation to nutrition: both physically and mentally. It is better to divide the daily norm into several meals. Do not leave your body for long without “reinforcement”. Try to dine on time and take all the necessary trace elements and vitamins with food. In winter, there are more foods with vitamin C, as with vitamin deficiency, a drop in pressure is also observed.
The diet should be a lot of cereal products and vegetables. Be sure to eat nuts, boiled eggs, dairy and sour-milk products and honey.
conclusions
We examined the main causes of low pressure, what to do to normalize it and which tablets are suitable. The very first aid is physical therapy. But it is important to observe the measure in food, in work, and in sporting events.