Frequent complaints of fatigue and dizziness, inability to concentrate on work, and weekends do not bring the desired restoration of performance ...
A modern person, loaded with work and household chores, cannot immediately understand that he has not chronic fatigue, but a cardiological disease called hypertension, or arterial hypotension.
Signs (symptoms) of a disease
This disease, most often found among people from 21 to forty years old, is predominantly “female”: there are five times fewer men among the diseased. In a healthy, adult, regardless of age, blood pressure fluctuates, it is influenced by physical activity, psychological and other normal physiological state of the body, but the pressure is recognized as optimal, not exceeding 110 millimeters of mercury (“upper”, systolic pressure), and not less than 65 (“lower”, diastolic).
With a slight decrease in diastolic blood pressure below normal, as a rule, serious health effects do not occur. In such patients with a chronic course of the disease, the following are observed:
- Pale skin;
- Dull, with throbbing, headache in forehead and temples;
- Distraction;
- Memory impairment;
- Drowsiness with normal duration of sleep;
- Weakness and decreased activity;
- Increased mental irritability, restraint;
- Weather sensitivity;
- Increased sweating;
- Not caused by other causes of nausea and loss of consciousness.
If arterial pressure “drops” significantly, due to poor supply of tissues, and primarily the brain, with oxygen and nutrients, there is a risk of brain disorders and irreversible pathological changes in the body.
Causes of the disease
In addition to the so-called physiological arterial hypotension, which is the norm, and occurring among mountaineers (due to low atmospheric pressure of the place of residence), workers of hazardous industries (steel workshops) and residents of the tropics, pathological and symptomatic hypotension, in which heart rate and blood flow velocity decreases vessels, cause many adverse factors as the external environment, and already existing painful conditions of the body.
So, there is a reason to suspect a low blood pressure if there are the following circumstances:
- Pregnancy;
- Violation of the thyroid gland;
- Vegetovascular dystonia disease;
- Chronic heart failure
- Serious psychological stress;
How does a cardiologist diagnose hypotension?
At the initial treatment, the doctor, in order to establish pathological hypotension, listens to complaints about the patient's condition and examines him. For this, a general and biochemical blood test (sometimes a general urinalysis), ultrasound and radiography are prescribed to identify diseases of the cardiovascular and digestive systems, as well as pulmonary pathologies. In addition, the state of blood pressure is monitored.
Hypotension treatment: official and traditional medicine to help
If the diastolic pressure is reduced slightly relative to the established norm, drug treatment will not be needed, and traditional medicine will perfectly cope with the stabilization of the condition. For example, 100 grams of the fruit of a thistle plant insist for 15 days on a 40% solution of alcohol in water, and drink 45 drops before meals every day until they feel better and better.
At lower pressure associated with thyroid dysfunction, hormonal iodine-containing drugs (for example, triiodothyronine) are taken. If low blood pressure is not associated with other health disorders, prescribe anticholinergic drugs. In the event that the doctor could not determine the cause of hypotension, medication caffeine is taken to alleviate the condition.
Thus, if the lack of strength is increasingly worried, you should seek medical help as soon as possible, as this can be a symptom of low blood pressure, requiring completely different treatment measures than simple fatigue!
