In recent years, hypertension has become much younger. A sedentary lifestyle, smoking, fast food enthusiasm, constant stress lead to the fact that increased heart pressure appears in people in the prime of life.
The first signs are conditions in the form of overwork or mild colds, irritability, disturbed night sleep and daytime sleepiness, redness of the eyeballs, inability to concentrate.
Many of these symptoms are ignored, but if at rest the pressure reaches 140 to 90, and there is a tendency to further increase, we can talk about a mild form of hypertension.
Therefore, all men over 40 years of age (statistics show more frequent manifestations of hypertension in the stronger sex), as well as people at risk (smokers, diabetics who are overweight and relatives who have died from a stroke or heart attack) should regularly monitor their heart level pressure.
With the progression of the disease in hypertensive patients, aching or compressing headaches more and more often occur. At the same time, atrophic events in the retina and fundus disorders occur in hypertensive patients. These symptoms indicate that increased heart pressure caused a disturbance in cerebral circulation, and there was a very high risk of stroke and serious eye pathologies.
At the same time as a headache, negative manifestations begin in the left part of the chest and sternum, extending to the left hand, heart rhythm disturbances (lump in the throat or sinking of the heart) are observed. Such signs indicate that the pressure produced pathological changes in the heart muscle and coronary arteries.
Thus, if the heart pressure is 100 or higher, it is urgent to go to a therapist or cardiologist. You may need to start taking special medications that reduce the dangerous effects.
How to lower heart pressure
Non-drug methods of treating high blood pressure include, first of all, lifestyle correction. To normalize the pressure, it is necessary to give up smoking, lose weight, lead an active life, exercise at least an hour a day. Also, people with high blood pressure will benefit from a special diet.
But even with a healthy lifestyle, in order to normalize the pressure, it is necessary to take medications.
There are several types of drugs, each of which has its own contraindications and features of use.
Existing drugs have only a symptomatic effect - they reduce high blood pressure and do not allow complications to develop: heart diseases, strokes, crises and other abnormalities; the very cause of the disease, of which little is known, can not be eliminated. Therefore, antihypertensive drugs need to be taken for a rather long time, almost all of my future life.
The quality of life and its duration in people who regularly take the appropriate drugs is higher than in those who ignore them. However, prolonged use of antihypertensive drugs has many side effects. For example, many drugs for pressure have a consequence such as a decrease in sex drive and a deterioration in erection.
Beta blockers have proven themselves well - agents that lower high blood pressure. In addition to the quick normalization of human well-being, they are able to bring the heart rhythm into proper condition and protect the heart muscle from failure. These drugs are prescribed for paroxysmal pain behind the sternum (angina pectoris), as well as for people who have suffered myocardial infarction.