Saturday, September 20, 2008

WHY IS THERE NO FIXED NORMAL BLOOD PRESSURE?

There is no fixed blood pressure level because blood pressure [BP] occur in range and it is subject to several variables,it is affected by physical activities like exercise and rest and physiological change like ageing and pregnancy attributes and gender affect it too much as weight and position of the body alter the usual blood pressure of an individual, and sometimes environment influences such as range have a whole lot molding to do about an unstable blood pressure level.

WHAT IS THE ACCEPTABLE NORMAL BLOOD PRESSURE OF SAY MY LITTLE BABY?
With the use of appropriate method and instrument babies and little children should have a BP range 80/50mmHg to 100/60mmHg, when a child or a baby has an adult type blood pressure level such as 145/90mmHg, there is need for an adequate assessment for further care for that child.

WHAT DOES MMHG STAND FOR ?
The mmHg symbol is the abbreviation for millimeters of mercury, it is the standard unit world wide for referring to the pressure level of the heart pump mechanism.

What Is The Acceptable Normal Blood Pressure Of Adolescent and Young Adults?
No one between the ages of 8 or 12 and 30 should have a persistent blood pressure above 140/90mmHg, below the age of thirty the acceptable normal BPs should be between 80/50 mmHg and 130/85 mmHg.

THEREFORE A BOY OF EIGHT YEAR WITH A PERSISTENT BLOOD PRESSURE OF 140/90 OR MORE HAS HYPERTENSION?
Yes the boy has hypertension, ordinarily a blood pressure level of 140/90 mmHg may just be ideal for adult of forty –five years or more. But certainly not a boy of this age. The boy of ten or less with a blood pressure of 140/90mmHg or more has medical problems which require a thorough medical evaluation. Otherwise he is in trouble.Click Here to learn more

WHAT OF A BUSY MAN OF 45 YEARS WHO HAS A BP OF 140/90MMHG OCCASIONALLY?
There is no cause for alarm the busy man need to rest after every busy schedule and submit himself occasionally for a blood pressure monitoring by a qualified well groomed physician . That is all.Click Here to learn more



WHAT IS THE ACCEPTABLE NORMAL BLOOD PRESSURE FOR AN ADULT?
If an adult is not depressed, is not pregnant, is not on drugs especially steroid and hormone, is not ill and he has no anxiety about pressing need a properly taken blood pressure reading at rest should be between 90/60mmHg and 140/90 mmhg (most people have a blood pressure range of between 110/65mmHg and 130/80mmHg and most children have slightly less BP level with appropriate apparatus).
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Saturday, August 30, 2008

OF THE TWO MAIN CATEGORISE OF HYPERTENSION -SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION AND ‘PULMONARY HYPERTENSION – WHICH IS MORE DANGEROUS?

Simply put arterial [systemic hypertension is more silent and is the most dangerous hypertension than pulmonary hypertension these are the reasons pulmonary diseases are prominent complaints , the one who is afflicted with a lung [pulmonary]disease will certainly complain of a form of chest pain a kind of breathlessness, a form of irritating and disturbing cough, previous catarrh etc,many heart problem are silent even until the fatal damage is about to occur unless a competent hand to help in its detection.

And in respect of high blood pressure disorder it is unfortunate that the heart and the lung do work together as one unit,it is therefore sometimes difficult for many people to differentiate between a lung disease and a heart disease, strangely some doctor so called are bamboos.

This is partly because most illness of the heart affect the lung in disastrous way to the extent that even the incompetent doctor may become confused , so when their is, for example an acute adult respiratory distress syndrome [ARDS] occasioned by a a near fatal myocardial infarction [mi or heart attack] whose catalyst is either high blood pressure or an arteriosclerotic plaque of hypercholesterolaemia origin a hasty diagnosis of a lung disease like acute bronchitis or acute bronchial asthma may be entertained by the inexperienced house doctor this is because the symptoms of these disease are basically those of breathlessness and their signs are those of respiratory disease stigmata such as chest crepituus, central cyanosis and tacypnoea.

To the young physician or the inefficient doctor who may find it a big task to differentiate between cardiac asthma and bronchial asthma these are but symptoms and signs of respiratory [lungs]disease but not the illness which has no complaint, must have a way to express itself,heart disease tend to express themselves by simulating lung disease,heart diseases like high blood presure which is very silent until it is about to cause a near fatal disaster has but one way to complain through the lungs!hypertension is always silent until it has caused -it is about to cause heart attack or acute respiratory distress syndrome –otherwise know as cardiac asthma or acute pulmonary oedema.
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On the other hand all lung disease have immediately and easily recognise symptoms and signs, pneumonia, for example disease will always produce some chest pain and cough if it must be called pneumonia, tuberculosis of the lung has its own characteristic ways expressing itself both to the layman and to the physician,emphysema thoracic, pleurisy flail, chest hyothrax, pnenmothrax haemothprax, pneumoconiosis bronchitis, bronchiectasis bronchial asthma, brochial carainnoma and other notable lung disorder have their ways of expressing themselves.
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In every respect therefore the silent symptomless hypertension which is systemic arterial hypertension is the more dangerous disease than the more outspoken lung disease called pulmonary hypertension. Click Here to learn more

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