Understanding the Need for Natural Treatment for High Blood Pressure
“Never in the field of Human Endeavour has so much been owed by so many” – apologies to the late Sir Winston Churchill. High Blood Pressure (Hypertension) it has been argued by at least one Medical Practitioner is a disease caused by and large by the simple demands of modern living. OK I'll go along with that but maybe this is just slightly too simplistic a definition. OK so we all feel our blood pressure rise and when we run for a bus or a train or when our favourite football team win (or worse lose) but what are the contributory factors that make up this natural phenomenon.
High Blood Pressure (Hypertension) it has been argued by at least one Medical Practitioner is a disease caused by and large by the simple demands of modern living. OK I'll go along with that but maybe this is just slightly too simplistic a definition. OK so we all feel our blood pressure rise and when we run for a bus or a train or when our favourite football team win (or worse lose) but what are the contributory factors that make up this natural phenomenon.
What are these factors? What is it about our modern day lives and the pressures and stresses caused that have resulted in this condition?
Well things are never that simple but when you stop to think about how our lives are made up, what we do, we actually try and force more into our everyday lives than is actually necessary. Such is life.
That having been said, what exactly are these factors that have such an effect on our every day lives and our health?
They include some of the following:
* The way we cope with the stress of modern day living. How do you react when you have waited for five minutes in the Supermarket checkout queue only to be told it is closing!
* Our social and emotional life. Is life just one constant round of running after one event after another whether this is chasing the family from one event or another or just racing around from one school or college to another?
* Our home and family life. Is it happy or stressed? Do you or your partner get on? Linked of course to this is one of the less talked about but funnily enough one of the more keenly queried side effects of high blood pressure and that is impotence. Joking apart has your life style and your high blood pressure affected your sex life. As the eagles famously sang in their hit "life in the fast lane" - "she was too tired to fake it, he was too tired to make it......life in the fast lane"
* Our Personality type. Back to the old "do you threaten to rip the heads of parking wardens when you get a ticket?"
* Our exercise habits. How much of a couch potato are you? Is your only exercise in life either walking from the car to the front door or reaching for the TV remote?
* Our weight. Do you have the ability to say no when offered that fourth portion of food?
* The ability to relax. Can you relax? Are you the type that can only relax after the fourth whisky or Gin?
* Our sleep patterns. Again can you? Lack of sleep is one of the major causes of disharmony in life today and most of us operate the sort of sleep deficit that would give most of us well.......heart failure.
* Vitamin and Mineral intake. Is your only mineral intake a Coke mid morning or last thing at night? Have you ever considered what might actually make up the food we eat?
* The tendency for use and misuse of additive substances such as Alcohol and Tobacco, Caffeine, and Drugs. Yes non of us do drugs anymore, we are all clean.......woops....there goes the neighbourhood under the weight of the bottles and packets as the Community Refuse truck drives down the road!
When you actually consider only a fraction of the above is it any wonder why not only is their a large proportion of us who suffer from High Blood Pressure (he says downing another coffee) but there is an even larger number of folks out there who suffer from High Blood Pressure and don't even know it yet!
Make a few changes to your lifestyle habits above and you will see slowly but surely changes to your health and welfare. Not overnight and maybe not enough to remove the need for some form of medication or drug therapy but enough that may give your Health Practitioner or Doctor the hope that you may be on the way to beating this condition or at least managing it responsibly.
About the Author:
Stephen Morgan writes for http://www.highbloodpressure.name and is also the founder of http://www.livingwithhighbloodpressure.net . More information on the above article can be found at http://www.highbloodpressure.name/highbloodpressuremedication.html
Don't Forget The High Blood Pressure Checkups: It's A Serious Thing
Sometimes, changing your lifestyle into a better one is not enough. Lowering the hypertension might suppose a drug treatment too. Based on the fact that every person is different and the high blood pressure affects each one in a particular manner, the physician will prescribe the right drugs and dosage according to each case.
The status of your health might be affected by the high blood pressure and the worrying aspect is that it has no visible symptoms. Checking your health frequently by performing tests and talking to your personal physician regularly about the health problems you might have is the only way you can trace hypertension. Once you know you have it, immediate measures must be taken because hypertension might cause you serious problems, even fatal ones, if is not taken care of.
The elements causing high blood pressure are various, and strongly related to modern times. Today we find ourselves in many stressful situations and we are the victims of sedentary and poor diets. The personal physician is the right person to guide you on the way of escaping this wrong way of life and help you control the high blood pressure.
Sometimes, changing your lifestyle into a better one is not enough. Lowering the hypertension might suppose a drug treatment too. Based on the fact that every person is different and the high blood pressure affects each one in a particular manner, the physician will prescribe the right drugs and dosage according to each case.
The medicated treatment can be avoided though by staying away from the elements that can cause it from the fist time. You can begin with being more active. Exercise at least two times a week and you will make your body stronger and healthier. The blood circulation will improve significantly and the high blood pressure can be controlled and decreased.
The food you eat should be low in cholesterol and if you choose it, you will be able to keep your arteries in shape. But do not forget that healing comes form inside too. Try to manage the stressful situations in your life and see the bright side of your life. Be calm and optimistic and your blood pressure will be also under control.
When the situation of high blood pressure is not up to you because you have inherited it, the things we can do about it are regular visits to the doctor to control the levels of the blood pressure and a healthy way of life. Do not think that if you are diagnosed with high blood pressure you are in deathly danger. Take it as a signal of alarm, a sign of a need for a complete turn in your life. If you realize its' seriousness and stop for a minute to think about it, choose the hard way of life, the healthy one. High blood pressure checkups can help you be a winner in the confrontation with this affection.
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High Blood Pressure can be controlled
It is very easy to come out of you Doctors Surgery (or Healthcare Practitioners Surgery) after you have been diagnosed with High Blood Pressure and admit defeat totally. It is the easiest option to take, to just sit back and say to yourself “OK, I’ll have to come to terms with the pills then” but why should you when with a little bit of effort you can control this condition that you have?
It is probably the hardest of the options placed in front of you but isn’t the end result worth it?
It all really boils down to how badly you want it?
If your High Blood Pressure is largely brought about by being slightly over weight then isn’t the bonus of not only looking and feeling better when you lose the pounds but you actually feel a lot better from the inside out as well?
Believe me it does feel good and you do feel great afterwards.
The one important thing that you have to try understand right from the start is what are the main contributory factors that brought about the High Blood Pressure in the first place? This may not always be totally possible to find out and it might indeed be almost impossible to get by without some form of medication for the rest of your life but it is a target that is well worth aiming for.
In my case when I was diagnosed with High Blood Pressure my initial Blood Pressure reading was 216 over 160! A little on the high side I must admit and looking back on it, being told of how high my high blood pressure was at the time made me feel slightly intimidated if not a little worried.
I try not to sound too glib about this whole episode because the reading was extremely high and was (as I found out afterwards) extremely dangerous but I guess it was my ignorance of the whole condition that initially got me through that particular few days.
Concentrated and enforced bed rest, plus medication brought the blood pressure levels down to manageable proportions and then I was able to start to plan my way forward from there. Initially the medication was a mixture of amlodipine, bendroflumethiazide to act as a slight diuretic to make sure that water retention was not a major issue and additional cause of blood pressure.
Finally after a few months they prescribed a small amount of one of the new wonder drugs the Medical Fraternity is going on about – one of the statins. In my case Pravastatin.
I was diagnosed with HBP in June 2001 and since then my BP levels have never been over 130/140 over 80/87. I am 48 and so quite frankly these levels would be right on the button if I can keep maintaining them.
However over the past two years the levels have been constant and my last reading was 120 over 80 and I am at present, in consultation with my Doctor, experimenting with reducing the medication.
As of the time of this first part of the article, We have managed to reduce the amlodipine and I am just taking the “Bendro” plus the statin. I have to say that increased exercise and a slight change of diet have helped. In part two of this article I will go into more detail of how I have managed to bring this all about and also the plans for the future.
So to recap. You can reduce your Blood Pressure naturally but in most cases with medication and you can do something positive about keeping it down as well.
About The Author:
Stephen Morgan is an independent journalist writing for a number of websites. His latest projects include Living with High Blood Pressure, High Blood Pressure Pressure and Personal Bankruptcy
Hypertension which is also known as the high blood pressure is often called as “silent killer”. This is one of the most oldest disease that is prevailing in man from the day of his birth. This is one of the common diseases that affect the mankind in the world. Though this disease has a cure but it needs to be prevented than to suffer from it.
Hypertension is commonly called as high blood pressure of BP. This disease is called as silent killer as it prevails in man for years without realizing. This hypertension damages the brain, heart and kidney. This hypertension which is also known as blood pressure is caused due to the pressure of the blood against the walls of the arteries. It is one of the most common world wide diseases afflicting the humans. This heart attack is one of the leading causes for the death in the world. But this can be prevented by giving education, awareness and information to the people to take healthy steps in getting rid of it and having a healthy health. The risk factors can be gently avoided by having careful planning that is by having healthy diet, simple exercises and basic knowledge about it.
High blood pressure of the hypertension is a medical condition where the blood pressure is chronically elevated. The prevalence of high blood pressure is one of the risk factor for the strokes, heart attacks, heart failure, arterial aneurysm, and for chronic renal failure. As already said this high blood pressure does not produce any symptoms. But sometimes it produces severe headache and then it is called as malignant hypertension or accelerated hypertension.
It is said that stressful situations may increase the blood pressure. These serious conditions cause stroke or diseases related to heart, kidney and eyes. Thought there have been several extensive researches, widespread patient education and many efforts have been made to decrease this hypertension but yet it is remained untreated. Sometimes this hypertension also leads to the risk factor that leads to the coronary heart disease, stroke, congestive heart failure, end stage renal disease, and peripheral vascular disease that lead to causes for death. In many cases this can be detected and controlled with the modifications in the lifestyles. The modification consists like diet, exercise, regular intake of medications. So it is a need that the health care professionals must not only prescribe the medications to cure suffer but has to change the lifestyles and suggest certain preventive strategies to decrease the prevalence of hypertension among the people.
This hypertension is often referred as silent killer because there are usually no signs or symptoms. It only occurs when the pressure of the blood flowing through your arteries is too high. This increase pressure puts extra stress on the other organs like heart, kidneys and blood vessels. This should be treated at its consequences or else it may become more serious. If you want to know more about the hypertension then it is your doctor who would help you. He would help you in managing this hypertension during the period of emergencies.
There are certain facts which make you to develop the hypertension within yourself. Some of the facts are:
Age
High intake of salt in the food
Sedentary lifestyles
Tobacco smoking
Alcohol abuse
High levels of saturated fats in the diet
Obesity
Stress
Diabetes mellitus
Genetic reasons
The blood pressure level in the common man is between 120/80 and 139/89 and this is called as pre-hypertension. If the blood pressure is above 140/90 then it is considered as high blood pressure. So it is an urge need to normalize your blood pressure as it causes damages to heart, kidney and blood vessels. To prevent it with the complications it is thereby prevented by the regular diagnosis. This disease is found commonly in the adults. This is known as one of the major health problems of the world. This causes a greater affect if it is not treated at its initial stage. So there should be regular check of the blood pressure and the pulse rate of a person who is over the age of 50 as he is more affected with this disease. They should have frequent checks of blood pressure if they feel like any symptoms of low number of BP, the higher of BP or if there is irregular pulse rate.
The treatment for this hypertension includes some of the modifications in the lifestyles. Some of the basic things that you should do to control your blood pressure are:
recommend weight loss
cultivate the habit of regular exercise
discontinuing smoking
consumption of healthy diet that is low fat and high fiber diet
having low fat food
reducing in the intake of salt
reduction in environmental stress
the intake of the medications prescribed by the doctor
Trying reduce in your life
Knowing whether any close relative of yours is suffering from hypertension
To have frequent check ups of your health to maintain the data and records of the blood pressure, cholesterol and pulse
Finally but not the least you should have a goal of keeping your blood pressure at 120/80 and aiming to maintain it. Though the disease has a cure but it is a require to better prevent than to suffer from.
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