High Blood Pressure Symptoms
What is High Blood Pressure?
When the heart pumps the blood in the arteries, blood moves with the force pushing the walls of arteries. High blood pressure is also known as hypertension.
High blood pressure may not cause any symptoms primarily but cause serious complications for long term.
- Many of the people have high blood pressure but they do not know about it.
- The main complications of the high blood pressure including heart attack, heart disease, congestive heart failure, kidney failure, stroke, peripheral artery disease, and the aortic aneurysms.
- Public alertness toward these dangers has rises. Second much common reason for medical office visit in U.S. is high blood pressure.
- The larger, top number is called as the systolic pressure. The heart contracts when the pressure is generated. It reflects the blood pressure against the walls of the arteries.
- The smaller, bottom number is called as diastolic pressure. When heart gets filled and resting between the heart beats, diastolic pressure reflects the pressure in the arteries. After examining the blood pressure of peoples, scientists determine the normal range for systolic as well as for diastolic pressure.
- Blood pressure is high or causes hypertension when pressure of the blood consistently higher than average.
- Blood pressure in the adults is considered high when systolic pressure is 140mm hg and diastolic pressure is 90mm hg or more than this.
Causes of High Blood Pressure:
In 10 percent of the people, high blood pressure is caused because of other diseases; this is called as secondary hypertension. In these cases, when treated the root cause, blood pressure goes to normal. Causes of secondary hypertension the conditions given below:
- Tumors or other diseases of the adrenal gland
- Chronic kidney disease
- Coarctation of the aorta - A narrowing of the aorta that you are born with that can cause high blood pressure in your arms
- Alcohol addiction
- Pregnancy
- Thyroid dysfunction
- Use of birth control pills
Near about 90 percent of the cases, the cause of the high blood pressure is unknown. This is also called as primary hypertension. Particular cause is not known but some of the other factors responsible for causing the high blood pressure are recognized.
High Blood Pressure Symptoms:
High blood pressure usually does not cause any symptoms.
- If it causes high blood pressure symptoms, these symptoms are very mild and also non specific.
- Therefore high blood pressure is also called as "the silent killer".
- People those have high blood pressure generally do not know it, until they measure the blood pressure.
- Headache
- Nausea
- Dizziness
- Blurred vision
People frequently don't look for the medical care until they have high blood pressure symptoms occurring from damaging the organ caused because of chronic high blood pressure. The following organ damage types are very common in chronic high blood pressure.
- Heart attack
- Stroke or "mini stroke" (transient ischemic attack, TIA)
- Heart failure
- Kidney failure
- Outpouchings of the aorta, called aneurysms
- Peripheral arterial disease
- Eye damage with loss of vision
Near about 1 percent of people having high blood pressure don't look for medical care, until high blood pressure becomes harsh. This condition is known as malignant hypertension.
- Lower number that is diastolic blood pressure increases up to 140 mm Hg in malignant hypertension.
- Malignant hypertension associated with the light-headedness, headache, or the nausea.
- This degree of the high blood pressure needs urgently hospitalization and lowering of the blood pressure to prevent stroke or brain hemorrhage.
High blood pressure can be not recognized for the years, causes no any symptoms but increasingly damage the organs such as heart, blood vessels and other organs.
High Blood Pressure Treatment:
Following treatments are used for high blood pressure:
- Most of the people lower their blood pressure with changing the life style such as exercise; weight loss etc but still many requires medication for controlling their blood pressure.
- You choose any therapy, but it is very important that regularly check the blood pressure for making sure that treatment is working correctly.
- High blood pressure which is uncontrollable causes heart attack, heart disease, heart failure, vision problems, kidney failure and the stroke.
- It is not possible to tell whether any particular machine working properly or not.
- Use the machine as directed.
- Apart in two minutes, check your blood pressure 3 times. Third measurement is most accurate measurement.
- At the time of third reading, if your blood pressure is high or at borderline, then check the blood by using another machine to know you know is accurate.
- Do not rely only on the machines for checking the blood pressure. It checked regularly with trained medical professional for knowing the accurate reading.
Self-Care at Home:
For controlling high blood pressure, two options are used, first modify the lifestyle and use the medications.
- Options of lifestyle including what you eat and level of activity.
- Stops smoking and modest alcohol use also keep blood pressure in control.
- Maintain healthy weight according to your height and type of body.
- Increasing your physical activity will help you burn more calories.
- Exercise regularly and increase the physical activity.
- Use the stairs instead of the elevator.
- Park farther away from the store or office.
- Get off the bus one or two stops early and walk the rest of the way.
- Ride a bike.
- Clean house.
- Work in the yard or garden.
- Go dancing.
- Wash the car the old-fashioned way.
People having high blood pressure limits sodium intake by ignoring table salt, salts used in cooking and salty processes. If patient do this then he reduces pressure by 5 mm Hg. Doing regular activities and minimizing the weight can decrease the blood pressure after some time.
If all above process do not work then medications must be used. Use of medications reduces chances of stroke, kidney problem and heart disease.
