Victims of hypertension should monitor their own health very carefully with a tonometer. However, there are symptoms that require urgent medical attention.
Hypertension is a chronic, usually lifelong disease that requires drug therapy and monitoring of the patient's health. In a hypertensive crisis, a visit to the doctor may be required, and for some accompanying symptoms, you should call an ambulance. One of them is chest pain. If the pressure surge is accompanied by such pain, we can talk about a heart attack or an attack of angina pectoris. In both cases, it is better that a team of doctors arrives and provides the necessary assistance. Another alarming signal is breathing problems.
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High blood pressure reduces blood flow to the heart, which causes breathing problems. And here, in case of failure to provide assistance, a person can suffer a heart attack. But the symptoms of an impending or already unfolding stroke should be of particular concern. One of them is a severe and persistent headache with severe attacks of hypertension. In this case, delay can be deathlike.
The doctor called the symptoms that require an immediate call to an ambulance
In no case should you postpone calling an ambulance if a person has confusion, severe dizziness, convulsions, and problems with vision and speech. All this indicates the onset of pathological and possibly irreversible lesions of certain parts of the brain. They occur against the background of a developing stroke, which can be either hemorrhagic, that is, caused by hemorrhage, or ischemic, that is, caused by a thrombus. (READ MORE)
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