Many people because of ignorance of some nuances can only aggravate the situation with a sharp decrease in blood pressure in yourself or someone close to you.
The concept of hypertension is much more common than hypotension, so people know less about the disease and, accordingly, are not prepared to help themselves or another person, restoring the pressure.
If hypertension is a condition when blood pressure jumps up, then hypotension is a sudden loss of pressure. How to understand which category you are to hypotensive or hypertensive:
– with hypotension the person feels severe headache in the occipital and temporal regions, and in hypertensive patients head is still spinning;
– hypotensive pales when pressure and high blood pressure red;
– people with hypertension may feel anxiety, panic, palpitations, and hypotension person will experience the incredible weakness of the, drowsiness, lethargy;
the attack, hypotension is accompanied by numbness of fingers and cold in them, hypertension is also “throws” a man in a fever, then he may feel a chill.
How to help yourself or someone in reducing blood pressure?
First and foremost, a person should be put to untie or unfasten all the locks, buttons, laces, in order to make it easier for him to breathe. Lift the leg above the head with pillow or clothing. Then open the window, if the patient is in the room, on the street, instead, to create a shadow. To cover the taste with something, because, with pressure in it decreases and body temperature.
Which is not to be done with reduced blood pressure:
The consumption of alcoholic beverages. Wrong and life threatening to think that alcohol will raise the pressure to normal.
Drinking coffee. Caffeine can for a few minutes to increase your blood pressure, but then it again decreases.
To take any medicationsthat have to normalize blood pressure. The patient’s condition should improve after some manipulations, which are described above, but if they don’t help then you should call an ambulance, maybe a crisis or attack.
To substitute to the nose of the patient ammonia. Doctors are against this method, because experience shows that the patient from the ammonia gets worse.
To make any movement. With a sharp decrease in pressure in the rest and bed rest.
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