How to identify the symptoms of hypertension and get rid of them in time?

Hypertension is one of the most common diseases today. Doctors also note the fact that from year to year the disease is growing younger, that is, not only people of mature and advanced age are exposed to it, but also young people. What explains this fact, doctors have not yet figured out. Among numerous assumptions, one can note the genetic predisposition, pollution of the environment, abuse of alcohol and energy drinks, smoking. Some experts suggest that the cause of the development of hypertension at an early age is also an anomalously hot summer, which has been observed for several years in a row.

The term used by the inhabitants to denote the increase or decrease in blood pressure - hypertension - is not a disease - but a condition of the muscles of the vessels or arterioles. And to denote the instability of blood pressure, the terms arterial hypertension or hypertension are used.

But the most terrible, probably, for the majority of patients with arterial hypertension is that it has practically nothing to show itself, and so many learn about it only when complications of the disease occur in the form of a stroke or a heart attack. Such an asymptomatic course of the disease can last quite a long time, up to several years.

But if the symptoms of hypertension are manifested, the doctors consider it a good sign. After all, they mean that the patient can start treatment on time.
The main symptom of hypertensive disease is considered constant high blood pressure. The remaining symptoms are considered by doctors in accordance with the stages of hypertension. There are three degrees of hypertension: mild, moderate and severe. In accordance with the degrees of hypertension has the following symptoms:

• First or mild degree. Symptoms at this stage: blood pressure in the patient ranges from 140-159 / 90-99 mmts. Art. It is impossible to identify the disease independently, even doctors often confuse symptoms of hypertension 1 degree with symptoms of a cold beginning or simply overwork. If the disease is detected at this stage and the appropriate treatment is started, the patient has every chance of achieving full recovery.
• Second secondary disease. Symptoms of hypertension of the 2nd degree are severe headaches, dizziness. The patient has severe pain in the heart. Often vessels of the fundus are affected, which can lead to glaucoma and subsequent blindness. Work capacity deteriorates, people do not sleep well. Sometimes there may be nasal bleeding. The blood pressure shows 160-179 / 100-109.
• With the third degree of the disease, the symptoms become more pronounced. The arterial pressure exceeds 180/110 mm.gt;Art. One of the symptoms of arterial hypertension at the third degree is the appearance of irreversible changes in cardiac activity. That is fraught with the further development of hypertension in such complications as angina and myocardial infarction. Hypertension of complex shape can provoke a patient such severe brain damage as strokes and encephalopathy. The retina of the fundus is affected, and these lesions are irreversible. The patient develops chronic renal failure.

Hypertension of the second and third degree may sometimes have such a "symptom" as a hypertensive crisis. It occurs only in one case, when the patient feels relief of his condition and therefore independently decides to stop taking medications.

In renal lesions, renal hypertension develops. She has her own symptomatology. For example, the symptoms of renal hypertension are elevated diastolic pressure. The pulse pressure is small at the same time.

A very important symptom in renal hypertension is a clinical sign such as systolic and diastolic noise. He is usually bugged in the area of ​​the projection of the renal arteries. This noise is better heard in patients with atherosclerosis of the renal arteries in the epigastric region above the navel. And if a patient has fibromuscular hyperplasia, noise can be heard above the navel. Sometimes it can be heard from the back.

However, some doctors do not consider systolic murmur to be an absolute sign of renal hypertension. Sometimes the same sign is present in patients without stenosis of the renal arteries.

The second obvious symptom of hypertension in renal lesions is the asymmetry of blood pressure on the limbs of the patient.

In one third of patients with hypertension, the disease can develop into a malignant form. Symptoms of malignant hypertension are frequent attacks of angina pectoris. Functional kidney failure is also recognized as a symptom of hypertension. The remaining symptoms in malignant form: an increase in the blood indicina, residual nitrogen, oliguria and azotomic uremia.

In this case, large blood pressure is practically not reduced by medications. In addition, all this is very often complicated by strokes, heart attacks, hypertensive crises. And often all this can end in the death of the patient.

Therefore, almost all people need to carefully monitor their blood pressure and with constant increase in it, see a doctor.