Heart rate and blood pressure are indicators of human health. If arterial parameters are constantly high, then hypertension is diagnosed. Low blood pressure does not have an official diagnosis. With a pressure of 90 to 60, we are talking about hypotension, but not as a disease, but as a condition of the patient’s body.
Is there any risk with such pressure? What to do with the constant appearance of these indicators on the tonometer? Is treatment necessary?
Low blood pressure: causes
Such a pressure of 90 to 60 may well be normal for a person. This is typical for women, young people and patients with asthenic physique. This feature of the body is most often genetic and is transmitted to the daughter from the mother.
Low blood pressure can “jump” with age and become stable hypertension. Such changes in blood circulation are due to weight gain with age, prolonged smoking and chronic pathologies.
Hypotension has two forms:
- primary, in which blood pressure with indicators of 90 to 60 is not due to the presence of pathology in the body, the patient feels normal;
- secondary, in which low marks on the tonometer become evidence of the disease; the causes of pressure in this case are dangerous for the patient and are accompanied by a negative state of health - severe headache, dizziness, weakness and nausea.
Consider the main causes of pressure 90 to 60.
Causes of primary form hypotension
Low indicators on the tonometer are observed in women due to the specific functioning of their hormonal system. With a natural decrease in pressure indicators to 85 by 60 or 55, one can judge the presence of pregnancy or with menopausal changes in the body.
With asthenic physique, low pressure can also be observed from birth. With pressure indices of 90 to 60, people feel healthy. In everyday life, symptoms such as nervousness, chilliness, mood swings, which are characteristics of the human body and its nature, can be noted. For them, such pressure is normal.
Genetic predisposition is often the cause of such indicators in a child. Such children should eat well and move fairly actively.
In adolescents and the elderly
Adolescents and the elderly may also have a decrease in blood counts. In adolescents, the causes of pressure are the immaturity of the heart and blood vessels that do not keep up with physical growth. Indicators 90 to 60 in 60 years are due to a decrease in their motor activity, as well as a decrease in vascular elasticity.
Secondary hypotension: causes and accompanying symptoms
At a pressure of 90 to 60 or 85 to 55, one can judge the presence of the following pathologies:
- Internal bleeding, in which a drop in the tonometer marks is accompanied by a higher pulse. The body thus seeks to compensate for the circulation of blood. Characteristic signs: pulse with a mark of 100, pressure of 90 to 60, increasing tachycardia.
- Hormonal disruptions.
- Addiction to alcohol and smoking.
- Nervous stress combined with physical fatigue.
- A condition after a heart attack associated with pathological changes in the heart, requiring correction through medication. Reduced pressure, ignored, causes complications of the functioning of the kidneys, an increase in the heart and the appearance of persistent edema.
- Heart failure.
- Anemia, accompanied by apathy, chronic fatigue, cyanosis of the nasolabial triangle and fingers.
- Chronic diseases: tuberculosis, diabetes, cancer, gastric ulcer. All these pathologies can become the causes of a decrease in the tonometer.
Is pressure 90 to 60 dangerous?
In what cases is it dangerous?
Similar indicators are normal for preschoolers. Older patients with these marks feel signs of malaise only if this condition is not congenital.
Such pressure is dangerous in people after 40 years, since with age its indicators should increase to a certain extent.
With hypotension, the following complications may occur:
- chronic deterioration of mood and poor health;
- heart failure development;
- oxygen starvation of the brain becomes the cause of violations of its activity - cognitive abilities, memory suffer, dementia develops;
- defects in the functioning of the kidneys, failure of this organ;
- increased likelihood of a patient developing ischemic stroke.
Hypotension during pregnancy
When the pressure is 90 to 60, what does it mean during pregnancy?
8 out of 10 pregnant women are characterized by reduced pressure with indicators of 90 to 60. When it falls below 85 to 55, signs of toxicosis and a state of fainting appear. A woman's well-being worsens in stuffy rooms, with prolonged forced standing in an uncomfortable position, in public transport.
In the second half of pregnancy, a vena cava syndrome may occur, which characterizes those cases when the expectant mother lies on her back, and the hollow lower vein is squeezed in her, the blood flow is disturbed. The situation is saved by changes in position. What to do at a pressure of 90 to 60?
How is hypotension treated?
What actions should be taken with hypotension? If for the treatment of hypertension many drugs of various kinds are needed, then with low pressure medications are limited. In this case, you need to change the lifestyle, which includes the following requirements:
- A balanced diet with a full menu: often people who suffer from low blood pressure have a poor appetite. They should eat freshly prepared dishes. Carbonated drinks, fast food, white bread are prohibited. You need to eat fruits, meat, vegetables. Nutrition should be balanced in the composition of carbohydrates and proteins, minerals and vitamins.
- Physical activity. You need to wake up correctly, that is, the body is gradually included in life. You need to get up smoothly, while in bed you need to do arms and legs lifts, stretching.
- During the day, you need to take breaks, especially for office workers, to disperse blood and increase pressure. Intensive loads are gradually introduced, while you should monitor your well-being.
- Wakefulness and sleep patterns. How does pressure rise during overwork of a chronic nature? It is necessary to make the regime of your day and follow it. It is necessary to abandon excessive enthusiasm for computers and gadgets. Sleep should be increased to 10-12 hours.
What to take at a pressure of 90 to 60?
Ways to quickly increase pressure
Strong hot sweet tea will help relieve headaches, disperse blood and warm the body.
Coffee allows you to get a short-term effect. You can not drink it during pregnancy and in patients with a tendency to tachycardia.
A bar of chocolate will tone up overall and improve well-being. Especially effective is its combination with a hot drink.
Medicines to treat hypotension are Citramon tablets and stimulants (lemongrass, ginseng, eleutherococcus, Pantocrine infusions). Before using them, you need to consult a specialist. This is especially important for elderly patients, pregnant women and patients with chronic diseases.