Increased cardiac pressure: how to avoid pathology

In recent years, hypertension significantly younger. A sedentary lifestyle, smoking, fast food craze, constant stress lead to the fact that high blood pressure appears in people in the prime of life.
The first swallow are conditions in the form of overwork or a slight cold, irritability, disturbed sleep at night and daytime sleepiness, redness of the eyeballs, inability to concentrate.

Many such symptoms are ignored, but if at rest the pressure reaches 140 to 90, and there are tendencies to further increase, we can talk about the mild form of hypertension.

Therefore, all men over 40 years of age (statistics show more frequent manifestations of hypertension in the stronger sex), as well as people at risk (smokers, diabetics who are overweight and relatives who died of a stroke or heart attack) should regularly monitor the level of cardiac Pressure.

With the progression of the disease in hypertensive patients, there are increasingly aching or squeezing headaches. Simultaneously, hypertensive patients have atrophic phenomena in the retina and disturbances of the fundus. These symptoms indicate that increased cardiac pressure caused impaired cerebral circulation, and the risk of stroke and severe vision pathologies is very high.

Simultaneously with a headache, negative manifestations begin in the left side of the chest and sternum, giving to the left arm, there are violations of the heart rhythm (lump in the throat or heart sinking). Such signs indicate that the pressure produced pathological changes in the heart muscle and coronary arteries.

Thus, if the cardiac pressure is 100 or higher, it is necessary to urgently go to the therapist or cardiologist. It may be necessary to start taking special medications that reduce the dangerous manifestations.

How to reduce heart pressure

Non-medicamentous methods of treatment of hypertension include, first of all, lifestyle correction. To normalize the pressure, you must give up smoking, lose weight, lead an active life, and engage in at least an hour a day of physical exercise. Also, people with increased cardiac pressure will benefit from a special diet.

But even under the condition of a healthy lifestyle, in order to normalize the pressure, it is necessary to take medications.

There are several types of drugs, each of which has its own contraindications and application features.

Existing drugs have only a symptomatic effect - reduce the increased cardiac pressure and prevent the development of complications: heart disease, strokes, crises and other abnormalities, the very cause of the ailment, of which little is known, they can not eliminate. Therefore, antihypertensives need to be taken for quite a long time, almost all further life.

The quality of life and its duration in people who regularly take the appropriate drugs are higher than those who ignore them. However, long-term use of antihypertensive drugs has many side effects. For example, many pressure medicines have a consequence, such as a decrease in sexual desire and a deterioration in the erection.

Well-established beta blockers - a means of reducing high blood pressure. In addition to the rapid normalization of the person's well-being, they are able to bring the heart rate to the right state and provide protection to the heart muscle from insufficiency. These drugs are prescribed for paroxysmal pains behind the sternum (angina pectoris), as well as for people who have suffered myocardial infarction.