How to measure blood pressure at home
Friends of steemit, thank you for allowing me to be with you again, as a nurse specialist in critical patient care, seeing that many patients arrive to intensive therapy for not having measured their blood pressure in time, I decided to make this post so that my friends of steemit are not going to go through a bad time and if this is presented have a basic notion about blood pressure.
It turns out that you go to the doctor and he tells you that you have a little high blood pressure and I need you to measure it at the same time for a certain number of days, that's where you think I'm looking for, if I knew how to measure it, not bother anyone, friend of steemit I tell you that if you can measure it yourself at home reporting a reliable value.
Before continuing, it is important that you know the following:
What is high blood pressure?
High blood pressure, also called "hypertension," occurs when the blood pressure on the walls of the arteries increases.
It is normal for the pressure to rise for short times. However, when the pressure remains high most of the time, it can cause very serious health problems.
What problems can high blood pressure cause?
High blood pressure can lead to vascular, renal, neurological, heart attacks and in its most serious condition lead to death.
How to Proceed to Measuring Blood Pressure
How is the arterial pressure measured?
We place the bracelet 2 centimeters above the flexure of the arm, and inflate air to squeeze the artery of the upper arm, so that when the air escapes from the bracelet, through the clock (presurometer) record the measure of blood pressure. Already in most of the devices for home use, the indicators are digital screens (electronic), which facilitates the measurement of blood pressure.
We will find a high and low number, the high one we know as the systolic pressure and the low one as the diastolic pressure
Normal blood pressure is less than "120 over 80", or 120/80. That means that the systolic pressure is 120 and the diastolic is 80.
A blood pressure between 120/80 and 139/89 is called "prehypertension." This means that your blood pressure is higher than normal and you are at high blood pressure.
If your blood pressure is 140/90 or more, most of the time you measure it, then you have high blood pressure, by placing the stethoscope on the artery and by inflating the bracelet to 200 mmhg and letting go air slowly when a ticking noise is initiated that will be the value of the systolic and when this stops sounding it is the value of the diastolic
What is blood pressure measured for?
Blood pressure can behave silently bone without reporting any signs and symptoms, so it is important that you measure it to whether or not you feel elevated, to maintain better control of it. And so you can prevent diseases that can lead to death.
And if you have high blood pressure or it is not important to help treat high blood pressure, with a healthy diet, maintain a healthy weight, get enough exercise and not smoke.
I hope this material is very useful for you, see you at a next opportunity.
