Family affairs
Hypotonia affects many young ladies. Most of them consider low pressure their own peculiarity. And they do nothing about it, consoling themselves with the thought that there is nothing bad in the low. Now, if it was increased - then another thing, and so there is nothing to worry about. You really can not pay attention to your condition in the event that, despite the low figures that the tonometer shows, you feel cheerful and full of energy. In this case, it is a question of physiological hypotension - a variant of your individual norm. It is usually found in professional sportswomen and women actively engaged in fitness. And also those who live in the mountains and in the south - in a similar way the organism adapts to low atmospheric pressure and heat. Well, someone predisposition to lowered pressure was inherited: my mother's blood pressure does not rise above 90/60 mm Hg. and you all have the same. If you are adapted to these figures, weight is ok - this is a family affair!
Your actions. You need to measure pressure twice a day - in the mornings and evenings at the same time before eating, even if you feel fine. Unfortunately, hypotension has one unpleasant property - over time it can develop into hypertension, which at first does not show itself. You continue to think that you are in a "hypotonic club", and when you feel weak, drink coffee and make lemongrass to raise low blood pressure. And it is already so high! Such errors can be costly - it is better not to allow them.
Measuring correctly
The upper limit of the norm is 140/90 mm Hg. Art. (when measuring the house - 135/85), the lower one - 100/60 mm Hg. Art. Doctors prefer mechanical devices, but in everyday life it is much more convenient to use electronic tonometers. They will do everything for you: they will give you a cuff and will take the measurements themselves, and even analyze them. The main thing is not to deviate from the instruction: electronics is a very delicate thing! Only with proper application can you afford the required assistance. It is important that you sit, and not stand, that the arm was lying on the table, bent at the elbow, the cuff fit in size to the hand and during the pressure measurement was at the level of the heart ...
Your actions. Repeat the measurements in a calm state 3 times at intervals of 10 min. On both hands in turn. To judge the magnitude of the pressure is needed on the indicators that are closest to the norm: with a tendency to hypotension - at higher, to hypertension - on the contrary, at a lower.
As an exception
If you are not a hothead, not a southerner, not an athlete, and in your family no one has ever complained about low blood pressure, which means that it can not be a norm for you. Then one of two things: either you have bad blood vessels, that is, a neurocirculatory hypotonic dystopia (NDC), which according to statistics suffers up to 80% of hypotension, or something else. And this "something else", which can cause secondary hypotension, must be excluded. Otherwise, the diagnosis of "NDC" will be put simply incorrectly!
Moody Vessels
A typical set of characteristics is typical for NDC. The more you discover them, the more likely the diagnosis!
- Increased fatigue
- "Heavy" head "
- Vertigo when lifting from a bed, sharp tilt or straightening, long standing
- Unpleasant sensations in the region of the heart
- Pain and aching in the muscles of the hands and feet
- Intensive sweating
- Poor tolerance of heat and stuffiness
- Shortness of breath when walking and climbing stairs
- Drowsiness
- Poor health in the second half of the day, although you do not feel vigorous and fresh even in the morning after sleep. But if you still manage to work before lunch, then everything starts to fall from your hands. You are covered by fatigue, apathy, you feel the heaviness in your head. Fortunately, after rest the state of health improves: it speaks about the functional nature of the disease.
Cheer up!
Trying to increase the pressure, drink more strong tea and black coffee? These are not the best and not the only possible ways to solve this problem! There are many other, more healthy and effective. You can try each of them and take on those that are more suitable for you.
- It is better to eat often, but gradually. You can not overeat - otherwise there will be increased blood flow to the stomach, and the pressure will drop even more.
"Try to get enough sleep!" If your sleep time is less than 8 hours, the pressure will drop rapidly.
- Do not jump in the morning on the alarm bell - your head will start spinning. Lying in bed, do gymnastics - stretch, turn your feet, try to twist 3 minutes of the pedal on an imaginary bike. Then get up smoothly and slowly, dropping off one bed first, and then the other leg.
- Apply to the tonic effect of a cool shower. A few minutes under his invigorating trickles - and you will feel like a different person! You can take a shower in the evening, but not before going to bed.
- Rid yourself of all sorts of work and overtime - you need to rest more! And this concerns not only the work, but the rest of the day. Try to close your eyes, relax and sit in an armchair for half an hour (and if possible, lie on the couch). Your health will improve immediately!
- If suddenly there was a breakdown, there was weakness, dizziness - do such an exercise. Take the initial position - sitting on a chair, legs shoulder-width apart, arms crossed behind the head. Now you need to take a deep breath and slowly bend over to your knees (as low as possible). Then straighten up and exhale sharply. Do not be lazy to repeat 3 times.
- You resort to the adoption of sea (chloride-sodium) baths at the rate of 40 g of table salt or sea salt per 1 liter of water (32-34 °). The course is enough for 12 procedures.
Herbs instead of coffee
To raise the pressure is best to take a tincture of medicinal herbs. Well helps eucommia vyazolistnaya, aralia Manchurian, the root of the ginseng, zamaniha, eleutherococcus, leuzea, lemongrass or rhodiola rosea. Schisandra and Rhodiola can also be grown in the country. Their leaves can be put in tea, added to salads - this will help to normalize the pressure.
- Crush the root of rhodiola rosea, pour 1 teaspoon with a liter of water, boil for 10 minutes, insist for half an hour. Drink tea 2-3 glasses a day, adding honey or sugar to taste.
Take the herbal collection:
- St. John's wort flowers, rhodiola rosea, high lure, cinnamon briar, nettle nettle and hawthorn fruit (2: 4: 4: 4: 3: 3).
- Calendula flowers, tripartite sequence, fruits of aronia blackberry, leaves of plantain large, roots of Manchu aralia, leuzea safflower, fruits of hawthorn of blood red and cinnamon cinnamon (2: 2: 2: 3: 3: 3: 3).
How to cook? You need to pour a tablespoon of the collection of a glass of boiling water, insist in a thermos for 45 minutes, strain and squeeze. Take one third or a quarter of a glass 2-3 times a day for 25-35 days. The course of herbal medicine can be repeated in a couple of weeks.
Reboot session
Fainting leads to a sudden decrease in pressure (hypotonic crisis). The head begins to turn dull in the eyes, there is a noise in the ears, nausea, palms and feet freezing, numbness appears in the hands and feet, the breathing becomes shallow, the pulse is weak and almost not palpable, you become pale, covered with cold sticky sweat and ... disconnect from reality. Usually the unconscious state lasts a couple of minutes, but after it for several hours there are signs of a headache, weakness and malaise.
At the first signs of impending fainting - weakness, noise in the ears, dizziness - do this.
- Sit down and cross your legs, then actively strain their muscles. This will increase the flow of blood to the heart, and the pressure will rise.
- Use a toning massage, working on biologically active points that raise the pressure. Click on them need to be strong enough, without interruption, 10-15 seconds. Points are placed on the face and fingers:
- in the groove between the upper lip and nose
- in the center of the fold between the lower lip and chin
- at the root of the nail on the little finger (immediately after the okolonogtevym platen) from the side of the ring finger
- on the index finger also at the root of the nail, where the middle finger is located
At the end you need to stretch the ends of each finger in turn.
Fainting or pickled cucumber
Heroines of the Western series, as a rule, guess about their pregnancy after a series of dizziness and fainting. In the domestic cinema, another tradition is that the upcoming addition to the family symbolizes a sudden awakening of love for pickled cucumbers and bouts of nausea. Why - it is not clear: perversion of taste and early toxicosis are not found in everyone who expects a child, and the head is spinning in this state in almost everyone. After all, hormonal restructuring in the first months of pregnancy inevitably affects vascular reactions. Therefore, the first thing to do when you learn that you will soon have a baby is to get a tonometer. After all, hypotension during pregnancy is extremely dangerous.
Nature has so arranged that at night, when the muscles relax, and the internal organs are asleep, the pressure goes down. However, with hypotension, it can fall so much that the unborn child begins to experience severe hunger and choking. All this can end badly. It is with hypotension that doctors associate cases of placental insufficiency developing for no apparent reason, when a woman is treated according to all the rules, and pathology is growing.
Your actions. Are you going to have a baby? First, deal with low blood pressure - help yourself to do this is simply necessary. Go through the examination, run a course of herbal medicine, go in for fitness, - in a word, do everything possible to make the pressure reach the lower limit of the norm (100/60 mm Hg) - this is very important for a baby!