Blood pressure is a type of blood pressure. The blood pressure index is very important for a person, since it indicates the state and functioning of the main systems and organs in the body. Blood pressure is determined using a tonometer and a phonendoscope. To date, a large number of portable blood pressure monitors have been created to determine the level of blood pressure in the arteries at home in just a couple of minutes. You can also identify the pressure indicator by examining the cavity of the heart, veins and capillaries, but other examination methods are used for this.
Normal allowable pressure
What does heart pressure mean? Systolic pressure is the result of a contraction of the left heart ventricle during the withdrawal of blood into the aorta. In another way it is called upper pressure. This indicator indicates with what strength and speed the blood vessels are filled with blood through contractions in the heart. Normal heart pressure is 100-140 mm Hg. Art.
Diastolic pressure, in other words, lower, helps to determine the speed with which the blood drains from the blood vessels during relaxation of the heart. The heart rate of pressure is a span of 60 to 90 mmHg. Art. If the indicators are higher or lower than standard, then this condition will be called arterial hypertension, in other words, hypertension.
Diastolic pressure is also sometimes called cardiac, but this definition is not common in the medical field. Most often, only diastolic pressure rises in a person, while systolic remains in a normal state. This can be considered absolutely normal, but only if it happens irregularly and the high pressure indicator decreases after a short time. If the heart pressure suddenly rises and continues to remain in this condition for a long time, or appears at the moment of complete rest of the patient, then this condition can be called a pathology that requires urgent treatment.
The main symptoms of the lesion
Most often, systolic and diastolic pressure increase in parallel to each other. But there are pathological diseases in which the rate of only lower pressure increases significantly. The upper value remains at the same level.
High blood pressure is an indicator of the functioning of the circulatory and cardiac system. Many pathologies provoke a change in this indicator. In the medical field, this problem is quite common.
Your heart rate will mainly depend on the following conditions:
- Vascular tone. The stronger the spasm occurs in them, the higher the pressure in a person.
- The amount of circulating blood. The larger it is, the higher the risk of getting a dangerous disease.
- The functioning of the heart muscle. The stronger and faster her work, the greater the volume of blood passes from one vessel to another.
Signs of defeat
Minute volume of cardiac output most often with an increase provokes unpleasant symptoms and ailments in the patient. These include:
- feeling of nausea, vomiting, noise and stuffiness in the ears;
- headache, dizziness, severe fatigue, overload of the body;
- trouble sleeping; heart palpitations;
- redness on the face and the presence of characteristic swelling.
In addition, the patient can sometimes feel numbness or creeping goosebumps. At the initial stage of the development of such a disease, the symptoms are rather mild and do not attract much attention from a person. For this reason, the treatment of high blood pressure and heart pressure begins already at the stage of accelerated development of the disease.
The most dangerous symptom that heart pressure is higher than blood pressure is severe headache. It occurs when the walls of blood vessels are stretched, which increases the risk of rupture of one of them or several.
Causes of Pressure Problems
It is important to remember that if venous pressure and arterial pressure increase slightly during the day under the influence of factors from outside, then this condition can be considered normal. For example, emotional stress, intellectual overload, and excessive physical exertion on the body can cause high heart pressure.
If the immediate relatives have a regular increase in heart pressure, then it is important for a person to visit a doctor from an early age to monitor the condition. The main cause of high blood pressure is a hereditary factor. In some cases, due to the anatomical features, a person has problems with blood flow. This adversely affects the functioning of the heart system.
Other equally common causes of high heart pressure include:
- Severe stress and strain. In this case, with an increase in the level of adrenaline in the blood and some other hormones, the cardiac muscle begins an especially accelerated work, which provokes an increase in pressure
- Leading a sedentary lifestyle. Activity must be present in a person’s life, as it helps to reduce the risk of a disease in a person by 20-40%. When conducting regular training, the elasticity of blood vessels increases, the organs begin to work efficiently and correctly.
- A bad habit is smoking. When nicotine and other harmful resins get in the body, blood clots form, the vessels cease to withstand the load and effectively resist it. As a result of this, the vessels narrow strongly and disrupt the functioning of the cardiac system.
- Eating junk food. Specialists were able to prove that salt and fat lead to problems with the functioning of the heart and provoke an increase in heart pressure.
Weight Problems and Diseases
Obesity. If a person weighs too much, then there is a large amount of blood in his body. At the same time, the vessels do not change their size, which provokes them to work even harder.
The presence of chronic and pathological processes in the body, most often they include infectious diseases of various organs and systems (nervous, endocrine system, kidneys and heart).
In some cases, it is possible to improve the condition and normalize the pressure indicators by taking medications. It is forbidden to independently select drugs to reduce blood pressure, as this can lead to irreversible consequences. Before starting treatment, it is very important to consult a doctor.
As a consequence of diseases
To increase diastolic pressure can lead to:
- pituitary disease;
- heart disease;
- benign and malignant tumors in the human body;
- problems with the work of the kidneys or adrenal glands;
- endocrine system diseases.
Renal pressure, which is higher or lower than normal, indicates enhanced cardiac function. In this case, the heart has to pump blood too quickly and in large volumes. If only dystonic pressure becomes high, then most often the problem is a malfunction in the circulatory system. In this condition, the entire blood vessel system slowly but irreversibly wears out.
Heart attacks and strokes are pathologies that in 70% of cases are fatal. Almost always, the main cause of high heart pressure is its sharp jumps in the presence of hypertension.
It is not only possible to relieve pressure in this case, but it is also very important. But the disease cannot be cured by this method, it is important to fight the cause, and not its symptoms.
The main danger of defeat
The causes of high blood pressure and its treatment are often directly dependent on each other. First, it is important to get rid of the root cause of the disease with the help of drugs and therapeutic therapy.
The disease can adversely affect the functioning of the heart system. It can lead to severe changes in the body. In this case, the myocrad of the left ventricle is most affected. With regular high blood pressure, the heart does not receive the right amount of blood, which provokes the appearance of ischemic disease.
Coronary disease over time leads to the occurrence of atherosclerosis in a patient who overloads the walls of blood vessels even more. In this case, the load can fall not only on large arteries, but also on capillaries. For this reason, a malfunction occurs in the whole body, which can provoke nephropathy or renal failure.
If venous pressure is constantly at a high level, then the brain suffers greatly. In this case, the patient’s risk of heart attack increases by 20 percent, and stroke by 30 percent.
First aid for the patient
The first symptoms of high blood pressure are: severe shortness of breath even at rest, breathing problems, headache, dizziness, discomfort in the chest area.
In this case, it does not really matter, which led to a jump in pressure, since all attention needs to be paid to helping the patient. To restore the patient's condition and avoid possible complications, you need:
- take the patient to bed, his position should be half-sitting;
- it is especially important to open the window and ventilate the room, in this condition the human body needs to receive a large amount of fresh air;
- an ice pack (or just something cold) should be applied to the muscles of the neck of the patient from two sides and kept for about 20 minutes;
- part of the blood flow from the heart should also be taken away, the patient is recommended to prepare a warm bath;
- if the patient complains of severe pain in the head, then he should be given a diuretic;
- with severe pain in the heart area, experts advise giving the patient a tablet of nitroglycerin under the tongue for resorption.
Taking medication
In modern pharmacology, there are a large number of effective drugs that help in a short time to normalize blood pressure and improve the patient's condition. But all of them are very different from each other both in composition and in principle of action, so what suits one person can cause complications in another. In this case, it is forbidden to try to cure yourself, it is important to go to the doctor's office and get a consultation. Your doctor will tell you exactly how to lower your blood pressure.
What to take with heart pressure? When restoring blood pressure, the main goal is to eliminate the root cause of its increase. Doctors advise using a comprehensive treatment of pathology. The specialist selects an individual treatment course for each patient, which will include taking special medications for heart pressure and other medications. Classification of antihypertensive drugs:
- diuretics;
- blood vessel dilating agents;
- preparations that include calcium;
- neurotropic;
- drops;
- agents that prevent the accumulation of active angiotensin;
- injections;
- angiogenesis receptor blockers.
Reception of Andipal
“Andipal” is a drug included in the classification of antihypertensive drugs. Only with the right medication can you achieve effective treatment and quickly eliminate the unpleasant symptoms of the disease. Like all other drugs aimed at lowering pressure indicators, Andipal can provoke side effects, the risk of which is significantly increased when following the basic instructions of a doctor. The attending specialist will prescribe a detailed dosage regimen and dosage according to the instructions for the use of Andipal.
At what pressure is the drug effective? To normalize the indicator of high blood pressure, the drug is taken once for 1-2 tablets. If necessary, the reception of Andipal is repeated, but only as prescribed by the doctor. The maximum duration of the drug during treatment reaches 10 days. At the end of the specified time, it is important to take a break of about one month. Heart pressure pills are recommended after 10 minutes after eating. So they will have the expected effect on the body.
Instructions for use of “Andipal” at what pressure does this prerarate recommend? If pressure surges differ in situational nature and occur due to external factors, then to reduce blood pressure it is enough to drink only 1 Andipala tablet. It is possible to normalize the condition of a person and his pressure when taking “Andipal” if the mark on the tonometer is not higher than 160.
In the presence of chronic hypertension, the doctor prescribes 2-3 tablets per day. To effectively lower blood pressure, administration should last 5 days. Since in the chronic form of the disease it is important to start a long course of taking antihypertensive drugs, and Andipal is not suitable for this purpose, it is important to replace antispasmodics with other anti-pressure drugs. The duration of such treatment will not exceed 72 hours. With this type of treatment, valerian and motherwort extract is additionally used.