Symptoms of High Blood Pressure

 

High blood pressure is one of the commonest ailments troubling people worldwide and an estimated 65 million Americans have high blood pressure.

 

It is a lethal disease that requires immediate medical assistance, intervention and treatment because it significantly increases the risk of life threatening conditions like congenital heart failure, heart diseases, cardiac arrest, stroke, mini stroke or TIA, weakening of the eye vessels and tissues and loss of vision, kidney failure etc.

 

High blood pressure can also be known as hypertension.

 

Symptoms

High blood pressure can be lethal because it creeps up silently and takes a grip over the body and has been appropriately labeled the silent killer. At the initial stage it doesn’t produce any such significant symptom and therefore goes unnoticed.

 

It increases slowly in the body down the years when it goes untreated and then suddenly, one day you start bleeding through the nose.

 

Some of the main symptoms of high blood pressure include:

 

• Nausea
• Headache
• Confusion
• Drowsiness
• Blurred vision
• Bleeding through the nose
• Dizziness

 

If you suffer from unbridled hypertension or if you have a family history of heart failure, you are at risk of contracting high blood pressure.

 

Once you cross over to the wrong side of 40 or if you are over weight/obese or suffer from prehypertension, you enter the danger zone and need to be alert and go through regular medical check ups.

 

Women who have undergone hysterectomy often contract high blood pressure once they hit the forties or the late thirties.

 

The lower number or diastolic blood pressure shoots up over 140 mm Hg in cases of malignant hypertension.

 

The common symptoms for malignant hypertension are nausea, light headedness and headache.

 

The symptoms of high blood pressure are very vague and generalized and may often be mistaken as symptoms for other kinds of diseases.

 

Because it is difficult to ascertain whether you have high BP, as the above mentioned symptoms don’t usually appear until you are fully in the grip of the disease, you need to be vigilant and go through regular health check ups.

 

If the condition is not determined and is left untreated for long, it can cause severe progressive damage to vital organs and may lead to malignant hypertension.