A question from Dal: Should I be concerned with a blood pressure reading in the 180′s?
My mother is 79 years old. She has had a history of mild strokes, as well as hypertension and diabetes. As a matter of fact she has end stage cardiovascular disease although at present time she is asymptomatic. Her blood pressure reading recently has been in the 180′s although she currently takes 6 pills a day for blood pressure. How dangerous is a consistent reading that high? How worried should I be?
It was 180/106 last I checked
The top answer:
Answer by sal1970
you should contact her cardiologist. 180 over what? she’s at risk for another stroke.
Whether you agree or disagree, why not leave your own thoughts below.
You can pull her blood pressure down by giving her salt and having her drink more water.
People are incredulous at the idea of reversing serious medical conditions with little more than water and salt. They’re led to believe that water has no medicinal value and is only good for quenching thirst.
But nature designed the body using a 75% water and salt solution in the tissues, an 85% solution in the brain and a 94% solution in the blood. These are the ideal levels to maintain good health.
Doctors advise their patients to “drink plenty of fluids”, but “fluids” don’t equate with water. The body runs on water, and it won’t accept any substitutes. Alternative drinks like soft drinks, coffee, alcohol and others do not supply the body’s water needs. These act like a diuretic and take water out of the body. In addition, there is water loss through normal functions like respiration and urination. Combined, we’re talking about a lot of water that doesn’t get replaced.
From the age of 20 we gradually become dehydrated without even noticing it. With this process, we also lose our perception of thirst. Many elderly people are sick because they are thirsty and do not recognize it.
Hypertension is a state of adaptation of the body to a generalized drought, when there is not enough water to fill all the blood vessels that diffuse water into vital cells. As part of the mechanism of reverse osmosis, when water from the blood serum is filtered and injected into important cells through minute holes in their membranes, extra pressure is needed for the “injection process.” Just as we inject I.V. “water” in hospitals, so the body injects water into tens of trillions of cells all at the same time. Water and some salt intake will bring blood pressure back to normal!
Not recognizing hypertension as one of the major indicators of dehydration in the human body, and treating it with diuretics that further dehydrate the body will, in time, cause blockage by cholesterol of the heart arteries and the arteries that go to the brain. It will cause heart attacks and small or massive strokes that paralyze. It will eventually cause kidney disease. It will cause brain damage and neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease.
i got some idea i am patient of GERD and ANXIETY my all the tests are normal like cholestrol lipid profile hemoglobin ultrasound serum cretinine etc but even after medication my bp is not normlising i am also having problem of lot of gas formation please advice me
my age is 46