Why blood pressure can be increased

Contents:

• High blood pressure causes and symptoms
• How to treat high blood pressure?

High blood pressure can be diagnosed at any person, regardless of age and gender.

It is considered that the normal levels of blood pressure in healthy people should not exceed 130/85 mm Hg mark

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High blood pressure causes and symptoms

This conditional parameters that can vary, but if the numbers are growing, need to pay attention to it, and perhaps to undergo treatment. In an emergency, you should immediately take the drugs that normalize the patient's condition.

The exact causes of hypertension is difficult to establish. There are certain risk factors that can trigger the growth of blood pressure and the development of the disease:

• Malnutrition, excessive consumption of salt and fatty foods;
• Obesity - the main satellite high-vascular disease;
• Smoking and alcohol abuse directly affect the increase in pressure;
• Lack of exercise, sedentary lifestyle;
• Kidney disease;
• The lack of potassium and magnesium in the body;
• Taking certain medicines. Drugs for weight loss, and oral contraceptives can cause an increase in pressure.

There are independent reasons that can trigger hypertension: age, family history, male gender.

Quite often asymptomatic blood pressure rises, and the man is in no hurry to start treatment. The growth pressure show the following signs:

• Headache;
• Frequent dizziness;
• Nausea;
• Tachycardia;
• Blackouts;
• Shortness of breath and chest pain.

Redness of the skin, swelling and numbness of the fingers, sweating - another disease symptoms that should make the patient see a doctor and get tested.

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How to treat high blood pressure?

Severe hypertension is a medical emergency! Only a specialist is able to correctly pick up the necessary medications and their dosage. In order to achieve a rapid effect using injection. In severe cases require hospitalization and inpatient treatment. It is important to prevent the development of serious conditions such as myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, unstable angina, aortic aneurysm, stroke, etc.

Drug correction of high blood pressure may be composed of a minimum amount of drugs or involve complex therapy. Commonly used drugs are the following:

• Diuretics (diuretics);
• ACE inhibitors (relaxes the walls of blood vessels);
• Beta-blockers (reduced heart rate);
• Alpha-blockers (relaxes the walls of blood vessels);
• Calcium antagonists (decreased heart rate, dilates blood vessels);
• Angiotensin receptor blockers (protect the brain, heart, and kidneys from lesions caused by high blood pressure).

Any funds that are used for normalizing the blood pressure may be prescribed by a physician taking into account only the symptoms and contraindications. Apart from medicines, the patient is always assigned to diet and rest. Quality sleep, stress and lack of outdoor exercise will speed up the healing process.

In the early stages of the disease the treatment of high blood pressure can be reduced to a change in lifestyle and diet. It is enough to reduce the consumption of animal fat and salt, to normalize the weight, give up bad habits, and do light exercise. If high blood pressure is a symptom of some other disease, the therapy should be directed at addressing the primary problem.