Symptoms of high blood pressure

In most cases, the disease begins unnoticed. Periodic rises in blood pressure can be accompanied by mild headaches that patients often attributed to other causes. Very important is the identification of hypertension in the early stages in order to prevent the development of complications. Unfortunately, often the disease is detected in the deployed, and sometimes in the final stage.

At the beginning of the disease, patients may develop crises, which contribute to the timely detection of hypertension. Such crises occur with too high blood pressure, which is accompanied by bouts of palpitations, pains in the heart and the fear of death.

With long-term increase in blood pressure as a result of high load the heart muscle increases in volume (hypertrophy), mainly in the area of ​​the left ventricle. Disrupted peripheral vessels, they occur sclerotic changes and internal tissues and organs begin to receive less nutrients and oxygen - it leads first to the violation of their function, and then the structure - the widening of the connective tissue (sclerosis).

Symptoms of high blood pressure in the later stages of the disease are determined complications. Patients are beginning to complain about the constant shortness of breath, palpitations, pressing and aching pain in the heart. If the patient is also the coronary heart disease Heart disease - symptoms of heart disease   (IHD), angina is becoming longer and more intense.

There are frequent headaches in some patients, they become permanent, accompanied by dizziness and incoordination. If the blood pressure gets very high, there are signs of late hypertensive crisis, accompanied by a violation of cerebral circulation: nausea, vomiting, sometimes convulsive seizures and hallucinations. In some cases, when crises develop neurological symptoms (movement disorders, or sensitivity) that are or together with an attack or hold for some time afterwards.

Always evolving changes in the blood vessels of the fundus: the arteries become thin and sinuous and dilated veins, can occur as a result of short-term or permanent visual impairment.

Further development of hypertension leads to complications of all internal organs.

How to lower high blood pressure

Treatment of high blood pressure depending on the stage. In the initial stages of drug treatment is usually not administered. To stabilize the blood pressure is enough milk-vegetable diet, a healthy lifestyle with moderate exercise and elimination of high emotional stress. To restore the normal condition of the nervous system prescribed sedatives plant origin, for example, extracts of valerian root.

Formulations of high blood pressure are assigned if the blood pressure rises in spite of the measures taken. When symptomatic hypertension, antihypertensive drugs are appointed from the outset.

For the treatment of hypertension produced a lot of drugs, and only a doctor can make sense of what a drug or set of drugs suitable for the patient. Self-medication in this case, should be avoided.

In addition to drugs for the treatment of hypertension are widely used methods of acupuncture Reflexology: restoring the body's bio-energy , Psychotherapy, physiotherapy, medical gymnastics. It is best to use these complexes as part of spa treatment.

Galina Romanenko

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