I believe that friends who have high blood pressure are familiar with the blood pressure classification table below. Based on this picture, you can clearly see which range your blood pressure falls into.
Generally, systolic blood pressure ≥ 140mmHg, or diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90mmHg can confirm high blood pressure. On this basis, everyone needs to control blood pressure through diet or taking medicine to prevent blood pressure from soaring and reaching high blood pressure that requires emergency treatment. Crisis this level.
Don’t underestimate this hypertensive crisis, it’s dangerous if you don’t pay enough attention! Every year, people are sent to the hospital due to hypertensive emergency .
Most of these people failed to do these things well, which caused their blood pressure to rise abnormally.
1. Not paying enough attention to danger signals
Being able to recognize 4 kinds of signals can sometimes save a life.
(1) Headache
Head swelling and pain, dull pain, especially pain in the back of the head and temples . If the pain is severe and accompanied by nausea and vomiting, it is more dangerous.
(2) Numbness
Numbness of the limbs is more likely to occur, such as numbness of hands , numbness of fingers, numbness of toes, etc.
You must pay attention especially when one side of the body is numb. It may be a sign of stroke .
(3) Heart palpitations and shortness of breath
High blood pressure may break through the lipid plaques in the arteries, infarct the blood vessels and induce myocardial infarction, especially in patients with coronary artery sclerosis . In addition, long-term high blood pressure puts a greater load on the heart, which is prone to problems such as cardiac hypertrophy and cardiac enlargement .
The above may cause palpitations , palpitation, chest tightness and shortness of breath . No matter what the situation is, it is necessary to seek medical diagnosis in time if similar symptoms occur.
(4) Tinnitus
If you have tinnitus in both ears and it lasts for a long time, you should be alert to the worsening of high blood pressure.
If you have the above conditions and continue to resist, it may lead to further worsening of symptoms, cerebral infarction, myocardial infarction, or even sudden death.
2. I don’t have the habit of measuring blood pressure every day.
High blood pressure is different from other diseases. It is "silent" and usually has no obvious manifestations. Unless the blood pressure is very high or very low, people will experience obvious discomfort.
Therefore, it is very undesirable and dangerous to rely on symptoms to judge whether blood pressure is well controlled.
If you find it troublesome and never measure your blood pressure, you will not notice it when your blood pressure rises step by step, and will become hypertensive emergency .
Moreover, it is controlled by hormones and biological clocks in the body. Our blood pressure has its own fluctuation pattern. It is also important to understand whether your fluctuation is normal and to take medicine according to the fluctuation of blood pressure.
If you do not measure your blood pressure on a regular basis, you are likely to miss the fluctuations and abnormalities in blood pressure, and continue to be in an unhealthy state, causing irreversible losses.
It is best to measure blood pressure during these periods every day:
(1) Measure it once in the morning
Early in the morning (within 1 hour after waking up, before taking medicine, and before breakfast) is the time when blood pressure is the highest , and it is also the time when critical events are most common.
So it is very important to measure your blood pressure once in the morning . At the same time, if your blood pressure exceeds the standard every morning, it means that your blood pressure is not well controlled. Even if blood pressure is stable at other times, there is a greater risk of critical events such as myocardial infarction and stroke.
(2) Measuring
morning blood pressure once in the evening is the standard for assessing critical events, while the 24-hour average blood pressure is an indicator of the degree of vascular damage..
Measuring blood pressure multiple times throughout the day can tell the average blood pressure level throughout the day, which also reflects the degree of vascular damage and arteriosclerosis in the body. , so in addition to early morning, it also needs to be tested once in the evening from 18:00 to 21:00. Take 2 measurements each time with an interval of 1 minute, take the average, and self-test for 7 consecutive days to find out your average blood pressure.
3. The medication regimen remains unchanged and is not adjusted in time according to the blood pressure value.
Hypertension is a chronic disease and requires long-term medication control.
However, the medication regimen after the initial diagnosis is not static and needs to be adjusted in time.
This is not because the medicine has failed or the body is resisting, but because there are other factors in the body that cause blood pressure to rise. needs to increase the dosage or change the medicine. Failure to change the dressing all year round is one of the important reasons for the worsening of hypertension.
Whether to adjust or not depends on changes in blood pressure. Check your blood pressure frequently. If you find that your blood pressure is obviously not as well controlled as in the past, you can consider adjusting your medication regimen.
should be increased or changed under the guidance of a doctor, such as changing from a single drug to combined with , etc.
Because everyone’s physique and condition are different, the medication plan that is suitable for other people may not be suitable for you. There will be an adjustment process, so you must start a new medication plan under the guidance of a doctor.
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