blood pressure
Blood pressure is one of the vital signs in the human body. It is a sign of cardiovascular health. When the heart pumps blood to the cells of the body, the blood drives the walls of the blood vessels through which it travels. This is known as blood pressure, Millimeters of mercury.
Blood pressure
Blood pressure is divided into two parts: Systolic blood pressure, which indicates the amount of blood pressure when the heart is constricted, and the other is diastolic blood pressure, which indicates blood pressure in the case of heart failure, and is usually considered an individual with high pressure when the reading of heart contraction is higher than normal , Which is 120/80 millimeters mercury.
When systolic blood pressure is between 120-139 mmHg and diastolic between 80-89 mmHg, the person is in pre-high blood pressure. The person is also in the first stage of high blood pressure when systolic is between 140-160 mmHg The diastolic range is between 90-99 mmHg. If the blood pressure reaches more than that, the person in this case has the second stage of blood pressure. When the blood pressure is below the normal limit, the person is known to have low blood pressure defined by scientists at less than 90/60 millimeters of mercury, but low blood pressure, unlike its height, is not necessarily associated with reading. Many people, Such as athletes, have relatively low blood pressure, but are not necessarily low in blood pressure, especially with no symptoms.
Blood pressure diseases
Pressure disorders are limited to two conditions: high pressure, and low pressure.
Hypertension
This condition is known as an increase in pressure from blood flow on blood vessel walls. This condition is not temporary; it continues for a period of time. It usually affects people over the age of 18, and is more common among women than in men.
The rate of high blood pressure in smokers than others, pregnant women, and those who take oral contraceptives, and drinking alcohol helps to increase blood pressure, eating fatty and salty foods, and lack of sports and excessive weight.
Symptoms of hypertension
Most patients with stress do not have any obvious symptoms, and may continue the disease with them for several years without the emergence of any offer, in addition
That the symptoms of hypertension are very similar to any symptoms of other diseases, so do not rely on them, the most famous of these symptoms:
- Headaches, excessive blood flow to the head causes headaches, redness of the face and hips, numbness in the ear, vision problems, constant dizziness, shortness of breath, and bleeding from the nose.
- In cases of advanced hypertension, dizziness develops, fainting, atherosclerosis, heart attacks, kidney failure and blindness, which require direct medical attention.
Causes of high pressure
90% to 95% of the causes of hypertension are not medically known until now, called primary hypertension. The remainder is caused by a known cause of secondary disease such as coronary artery stenosis, thyroid disease, Congenital and other. Some people are more susceptible to hypertension than others and are the closest to the factors contributing to the formation of this disease, the most important:
- Some chronic diseases, such as renal inflammation, obesity, glands, and diabetes.
- Bad habits, such as smoking, drinking alcohol, eating fatty and salty foods, and soft drinks.
- Take some drugs for a long time, such as birth control drugs, painkillers, and diet drugs.
- Genetics may have a role in the transmission of hypertension gene among family members.
Treatment of hypertension
Modern science has not found a cure for high blood pressure, but there are a lot of drugs that control the rate of pressure, either because it is not higher than it is, or to try to reduce it slightly than it is. The pressure medication needs to be consulted by the doctor because the response of the objects varies according to the medication.
Reduction of Blood pressure
High pressure is also an increase in pressure on artery walls. It is reduced by beatings on the walls of the arteries. The heart can not recover the carbon-dioxide blood at the required speed. Blood drop is not as alarming a medical condition as its height, unless it is associated with a chronic heart condition.
Symptoms of low blood pressure
Symptoms of hypoglycemia include:
- General weakness in the body, Caldokhh and loss of consciousness, a general feeling of fatigue and fatigue, and the inability to do any physical exertion, permanent desire to sleep.
- Arrhythmia, shortness of breath, persistent desire to vomit.
- Continuous body cooling, especially the limbs; because the blood does not reach all members of the body, the temperature falls below the normal, above the disease.
Causes of low blood pressure
Most causes temporarily reduce blood pressure, with the exception of chronic diseases where low pressure is one of the symptoms.
- Severe bleeding that causes poor blood as in cases of severe diarrhea that lead to dehydration, frequent vomiting, or severe bleeding.
- Failure of the heart muscle, which is no longer able to pump blood enough to deliver blood to all members of the body, which develops the decline until it reaches the shock of the patient because of the coma
- Some plants, such as cocoa, ginger that dilate the blood vessels, thus lower blood pressure.
- Some drugs, such as nitrate compounds, calcium channel blockers, and angiotensin receptor inhibitors.
- It may be a symptom of some chronic diseases, such as Addison’s syndrome (renal dysfunction), diabetes, or thyroid failure.
Treatment of low blood pressure
The treatment of low blood pressure depends on the knowledge of the cause to find the appropriate treatment method, if low pressure is not satisfactory and no side effects, there is no fear on the health of the patient, but depends on a lifestyle to adapt with it, depends on salty food to maintain the level of salts in his body, Of fluids, water helps to modify the proportion of salts in the blood.
Prevention of blood pressure diseases
Because prevention is better than treatment, and because pressure diseases depend on an appropriate lifestyle, the following are the best ways to prevent stress diseases in general:
- Know your condition : It is important that the individual periodic examination to know what is going on, and measures the physical strength, know his health and easy to adapt.
- Good nutrition : A balanced diet that contains adequate fiber, adequate fats, vitamins and carbohydrates to suit the needs of the body, is the food that any person needs to maintain a healthy, sound and disease-free health.
- Sports : Which is the key to the body strong and healthy muscle structure, because of the strengthening of muscles, especially the heart muscle, and activation of the blood circulation, and rehabilitation of the body to protect itself from infectious diseases and non-infectious alike.
- No to bad habits From addiction to smoking and drinking alcohol, and adoption of fast food basic daily meal, and exhaustion of the body in the daily work that consume the age of the body prematurely.
- Reduce intellectual stress : Most health problems result from anxiety and thinking long, and a person to rely on methods of comfort or a little distance from concerns, such as exercise relaxation or yoga, or take a hot bath to rest the nerves, or swimming, and must modify the daily ration of caffeine.