So, against the background of hypertension, the inner shell of the vessels changes its structure. In some places, seals are beginning to form - atherosclerotic plaques that disrupt blood flow and are the site of blood clots.
In the processes of thrombosis, the heart also participates. The increase in its parts, the disruption of rhythm and the force of contractions lead to a change in the normal flow of blood, and hence its fluidity.
By its severity, the risk of thrombosis can be equated with the risk of stroke, heart attack and other fatal complications. Because the genesis of these conditions is a violation of normal blood supply.
How to warn?
What does the pregnant woman depend on of you personally? A full 8-hour night's sleep, moderate exercise, refusal or restriction in eating fatty, salty and strong drinks already create the prerequisites for stabilizing the pressure. Independently you can start taking soothing herbal collections and teas.
Herbal preparations :
Mint leaves, valerian root, chamomile flowers, cumin fruits, fennel fruits - in equal parts. Take 1 tbsp. spoon mixture, pour a glass of boiling water, insist 15 minutes. and take before bedtime.
Valerian roots, herbaceous leaves of the motherwort, cumin fruits, fennel fruits - in equal parts.
2 tbsp. Spoon the mixture with 2 cups of boiling water, insist before cooling, strain and take at night with nervous excitement and irritability.
Scary numbers .
Medical statistics only confirms the scale of the spread of this pathology in pregnant women. It is estimated that thirty women out of a hundred live with high blood pressure or, scientifically, hypertension.
Criteria of the disease .
Normally, the blood pressure in a pregnant woman should not be higher than 140/90. The upper digit is called the systolic pressure, the lower one is called the diastolic pressure, and the phases of the heart contraction. The increase can be as two components, and more than any one component. Isolated increase in systolic pressure indicates a problem of cardiac output and aortic condition. Diastolic pressure characterizes the tone of peripheral vessels.
Diagnostics .
In most cases, the diagnosis is made with a "random" pressure measurement. That is, in pregnancy, when the patient consulted a doctor for a different problem, and when examining and tonometry suddenly found elevated blood pressure figures. This indirectly confirms that people are poorly informed about this disease and do not follow their health. And 40 percent of women who have elevated blood pressure figures do not know this at all.
Complications.
It is believed that the main threat to the life of a young mother is the acute development of complications of arterial hypertension. Emerging, as a rule, against a background of hypertensive crisis, they often lead to a sharp deterioration in the patient's condition, disability and, unfortunately, in some situations, death.
Such complications are familiar to pregnant women :
Acute cerebrovascular accident (stroke)
Acute heart failure in the presence of myocardial infarction
Pulmonary edema
Nose bleed
Hemorrhage in the retina of the eye
All treatment of hypertension can be divided into medicamentous and non-medicamentous. All special preparations should be prescribed by a doctor. Among the abundance of groups of drugs specialist will choose for you the most effective. Do not rely on the advice of a friend and television advertising. What is suitable for one person, can harm another.