Hypertension is the world's most common cardiovascular disease, but also one of the largest epidemics, often caused by heart, brain, kidney and other organs of the complications of serious harm to human health and therefore to increase awareness of hypertension, right early prevention and timely treatment extremely important. Hypertension is a long-term course of disease. Generally considered to be due to strong, repeated, long-term external stimuli, resulting in cortical dysfunction, loss of normal regulation of blood vessels and disease.
Symptoms of Hypertension
The symptoms of hypertension are often a result of people, due to illness period to another. Asymptomatic or symptoms of early multi-obvious, even in the physical examination or for other reasons, blood pressure was found. The extent of their symptoms and high blood pressure do not have the same relationship, which may be related to neurological disorders related to advanced. Some people blood pressure is not too high, but a lot of the symptoms, while others although a high blood pressure in some patients, but the symptoms of obvious, common symptoms include:
1. Dizziness: Dizziness is most common symptoms of high blood pressure. Some are one-off nature, often from a sudden squatting, or immediately appear, some are ongoing. Dizziness is a major pain the patient is located, its head, there is continuous dull discomfort, a serious impediment to thinking, affecting work, loss of interest in things around, when there is hypertensive crisis, or vertebral - basilar artery insufficiency, may presented with similar symptoms of vertigo inner ear.
2. Headache: Headaches are also common symptoms of high blood pressure, mostly for persistent dull pain or pulsatile pain, and even burst-like pain. Often occurs in the morning wake up, get up gradually reduce activities and meals. Pain in multiple sites on both sides of the forehead and the back of the head temple.
3. Irritability, palpitations, insomnia: patients with hypertension more than impatient temperament, failing sensitive and excitable. Heart palpitations, insomnia more common, insomnia, difficulty falling asleep or woke too early, mostly, sleep is not real, nightmares diverse, easy to wake up. This cortex dysfunction and autonomic dysfunction related to.
4. Can not concentrate, memory loss: Early more obvious, but with the development of more severe disease. Because quite upsetting, Guchang become a catalyst in one of the reasons treatment of patients, showing for the attention of easily dispersed, recent memory impairment, and often difficult to remember a recent thing, right things in the past, such as childhood memories of things that .
5. Limb numbness: Frequently Asked fingers, toes and numbness, or skin, such as flu or mosquitoes line item back muscle tension, soreness. Some patients often feel their fingers are not agile. After proper treatment usually can be turned around, but if the numbness more stubborn, lasted longer, but also appeared in a fixed body, accompanied by limb weakness, cramps, rebound tenderness, should promptly to the hospital for treatment, prevention of stroke onset.
6. Hemorrhage: A relatively rare. Because high blood pressure can be caused by arterial sclerosis, so that decreased blood vessel elasticity, brittleness increased, so easy to hemorrhage. Among them, epistaxis more common, followed by conjunctival hemorrhage, retinal hemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage, according to statistics, a large number of patients with nasal bleeding, about 80% suffer from high blood pressure.
Treatment of Hypertension
First, the general treatment of high blood pressure
Note that work and rest, maintaining adequate sleep, to participate in whatever work, manual labor, and physical exercise. Diet adjusted to low salt, low animal fat diet is appropriate, and to avoid into cholesterol-rich food. Proper control of food intake, obesity, and total calories, appropriate weight, not smoke.
