Blood pressure is one of the main indicators of human activity. When it is normal, a person feels good. The two numbers obtained by measuring it are systolic and diastolic pressure. Systolic is also called cardiac, because it shows the effectiveness of the heart. And diastolic characterizes the tone of blood vessels at the time of its relaxation. If it is low and the heart does not work well, the person feels a lack of oxygen. Because of this, many diseases can occur.
Therefore, it is dangerous not only high, but also low heart pressure. The reasons for it may be different.
Why does the pressure drop?
1. Heart failure and various heart diseases, for example, arrhythmia or valve pathology, a state after a heart attack or heart block, all this leads to the fact that the heart cannot function normally and therefore the pressure decreases.
2. A common cause of low blood pressure is vegetovascular dystonia, which is caused by malfunctioning of the adrenal glands. They produce many hormones that reduce vascular tone.
3. Why is there still low heart pressure? The causes of this ailment can be associated with severe diseases of the internal organs. Most often it is diabetes, pancreatitis, ulcer, hepatitis or cystitis.
4. Pressure may decrease after taking certain medications. These include
"Nitroglycerin", many sedatives and antispasmodics, large doses of antibiotics and painkillers.
5. Why can low heart pressure be in healthy people? It decreases with dehydration, blood loss, for example, after an injury, and even with a lack of vitamins C, E or B5.
6. Physically healthy people often have low heart pressure. The reasons for this are psychological trauma, stress and neurosis.
How to determine that you have low blood pressure?
With hypotension, the patient experiences weakness, lack of air, shortness of breath and dizziness. Frequent companions of this condition are numbness of the limbs, as well as headaches and heartaches. The patient may suddenly lose consciousness, he has observed
decreased performance, memory impairment, sleep disturbances and apathy. Signs of a sharp decrease in pressure are cooling and numbness of the extremities, nausea, dizziness, and severe weakness.
How to treat hypotension?
It is very important for such patients to observe the daily regimen, to prevent overloads and lack of sleep, to eat right and to abandon bad habits. Increasingly, people have low heart pressure. Its treatment is simple, but it must be complex and lengthy. There are special drugs to increase vascular tone, but folk remedies are also very effective. For example, tincture of ginseng, lemongrass or eleutherococcus.
Watch your diet and get enough sleep if you have low heart pressure. The reasons for it are most often associated with improper daily routines and the presence of bad habits.