Blood pressure is unstable and depends on many factors. Blood pressure during sleep is lowering. And on the contrary, it is increased in physical activities and stresses. To stabilize blood pressure, you need have a rest and calm down.

If you are healthy, your organism is capable to control blood pressure. Control body systems provide the full blood flow without increasing if you change your position from sitting or lying. But if these systems fail to control blood pressure, it is getting to be increased. At this moment only you and your doctor can provide the effective assistance.

The arterial pressure of 120/80 millimeters of mercury is considered to be normal (upper limit is 140/90).

Nowadays, the answer to this question has not been found. Hypertension may affect anyone, no matter sex, weight and skin color. However, the emotional people are believed to be under higher risk of hypertension development. Besides some medications (oral contraceptives, for example) may increase blood pressure. Moreover, the older you are getting, the higher your pressure.

However, all mentioned reasons are only a little part of numerous other reasons explaining worsening your health. Actually, the factors leading to hypertensions are numerous, and all of them have not been studied yet. The reason of high pressure can be defined very seldom, and it is difficult to eliminate it and forget about hypertension.

If the doctor set a diagnosis «hypertension», more likely it is right. This diagnosis is set on the basis of regular measuring of your blood pressure. If you always have high pressure, you definitely have hypertension. Hypertension is an incurable disease. You have to fight against it to avoid any complications, but you should accept that you will always be with it.

The word “hypertension” means regular increase in arterial pressure. Blood pressure is increased when arteries and arterioles are narrowed. Arteries are like water channels feeding the earth and connecting the seas. But in a human body they are filled with the blood circulating between the heart and other bodies. Vasoconstriction may be observed because of regular spasms. The vessels remain narrowed due to thickenings of arterial walls.

The heart trying to pass the blocked sites and deliver the blood to organs increases an amount of the blood to push it through the vessels. These conditions are considered to be the reason of the development of hypertension: blood flow under high pressure affecting the vessel walls.

Sometimes, in one of ten cases, high blood pressure may be caused by disorder of any organ. This hypertension is named secondary or symptomatic. However, in most cases hypertension has primary character and called essential hypertension. Though the reasons of primary hypertension have not been thoroughly studied, it is evident that untreated high pressure is believed to be a serious threat to human health and life. The most common complications of hypertension are kidneys disease, and brain and heart disorders.

Nowadays the doctors apply reliable and effective methods to treat high pressure and avoid any complications. The main thing is your examination and following the doctor’s recommendations.

Important!

Every fifth adult has high arterial pressure (above 120/80). But only half of them know about it. Half of them treat this disease properly. The most of people believe that if they do not feel any disturbance due to high pressure, they do not need the treatment. However, treatment refusal is dangerous, you never know when it let you down!

Only half of the patients taking prescribed drugs follow the doctor’s recommendations. The patients discontinue drug taking when see the first symptoms of improvement. It may lead to relapse. Some patients adjust drug dosage, this is very dangerous. If you have hypertension, you should study some moments and live with it.

High arterial pressure (hypertension) is believed to be one of the most common diseases. Almost every tenth adult suffers from high blood pressure. Hypertension may not be observed for a long time, but its destructive action will affect you anyway. High blood pressure will be attacking your cardiovascular system till stenocardia or heart attack, blindness or other disorders are experienced.

Now there are many medications effectively lowering high blood pressure and capable to keep it normal. Drug treatment will help you to live a normal life, but with some restrictions.

Below we will talk about hypertension and high blood pressure in details. But we do not want you to set diagnoses basing on the provided material. Diagnosis can be determined only by the qualified doctor. Our task is to inform you on such disease as hypertension, because awareness of the disease is the first step in the right direction. The below information is provided only for informative and educational purpose.

What to do if your heart hurts? It is good if it happens at home or at public place, with other people around and they can help. But, unfortunately, circumstances are often unfavorable. How to help yourself if none is nearby, and any medications or phone are just not available?

Alas, today even young people of 25-30 age group are under the risk of heart attack, especially in big cities: life is full of stress, plus smoking, alcohol, all these factors worsen heart state.

Let’s assume that the conflict situation happen with you at work. Then you drive a car and suddenly feel the chest pain. To the nearest hospital it is 5km, and it is unlikely to reach over there in such state … It is better to stop immediately: accidents happen often because of heart attack with a driver.

Let’s consider another case. You are walking in the forest or in the village. None is nearby, and surely, any medications are available. However, even if you do not see anyone, call someone, probably somebody nevertheless will hear you.

Let’s assume that you are alone at home. You will not be able to leave your apartment and to call your neighbor if you fail to reach drugs. Neighbors hardly will hear you even if you shout through a window. Even, having called emergency you will have to wait it at least twenty minutes, and in the city it may take about one hour. But anyway you are recommended to call emergency. At heart attack an individual quickly weakens because of heart-work disorders. There are only 10 seconds before fainting. In these situations an urgent artificial respiration is recommended. But, even if you can do it, you need another person’s help for this procedure. But he may feel panic. This may lead to fatal outcome despite a chance to save own life!

So, first aid to yourself is to start coughing! Before every coughing, take a deep breath. The cough should be deep, chest, and expectorant like in pulmonary diseases. Frequency of «breath-cough» is about every 2 seconds. Proceed doing it till getting assistance or your heart rate is normal.

How the cough works? The matter is that deep breaths provide required oxygen to the lungs, and cough suppresses a cardiac muscle and stimulates the blood to circulate better. It helps the heart to restore a normal heart rhythm.

But even if the heart rhythm was restored and you feel better, do not neglect the problem. Immediately take a drug and call the doctor, you are recommended to make a cardiogram. Probably, even hospitalization will be required for you to get necessary treatment.

However, the above-mentioned cardiopulmonary resuscitation is extreme. If you value your life and health, get the required medications around just in case.

1. Keep heart medications even if you are not a heart sufferer. By the way, an individual suffered from impaired cardial function with Nitroglycerine or Valocordin appears at an advantage, than the healthy one without heart drugs. Keep the rule: heart drugs should be available to your hands! Keep them in bedside tables and in your pockets. If you do not need them, they can be useful to someone else.

2. The phone always should be available, whatever stationary or mobile. Surely, it is not the fact that in case of sudden worsening of health state it will help you, but nevertheless you can call emergency. 3. In case of the severe stress try to breathe deeper (even if you do not observe any heart attack symptoms). If possible do not drive. Take sedative drugs.