High after sport?
When blood pressure fluctuations become dangerous and how to effectively prevent them
Created: 06/22/2022, 09:47 am
By: Juliane Gutmann
High blood pressure values promote the development of cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks.
Read here which factors trigger dangerous blood pressure fluctuations.
Blood pressure is subject to natural fluctuations.
It falls at night in a healthy person, only to rise again before waking up.
As the Health Knowledge Foundation informs, normal blood pressure is so important because it ensures that the blood flows through our body and supplies organs and tissues with nutrients and oxygen.
Blood pressure that is too high or too low is pathological.
The former is one of the widespread folk ailments: according to the Techniker Krankenkasse, around 20 to 30 million Germans are affected by high blood pressure.
In many cases, lifestyle changes help normalize blood pressure
.
If a patient measures very high values for weeks and can already look back on a long history of illness, there is usually no way around medication in the form of antihypertensive drugs.
There is a lot you can do to avoid raising your blood pressure unnecessarily.
The goal is to keep him balanced and avoid spikes up and down.
A blood pressure between 120/80 and 130/85 mmHg is considered normal.
If the values regularly rise above this, doctors speak of hypertension: the medical term for high blood pressure.
Blood pressure peaks can be triggered by various factors.
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Eight causes of fluctuating blood pressure: German Heart Foundation informed
According to the Heart Foundation, the following factors can be responsible for
blood pressure fluctuations
:
Coffee
, black tea and green tea
: The caffeine or theine it contains can cause blood pressure values to rise significantly in the short term.
Drinking too little
: If the body is insufficiently supplied with liquid, it can react with fluctuating values.
Too much salt
: Doctors estimate that around 50 percent of high blood pressure patients are sensitive to salt, which means their blood pressure falls by around 5 mmHg on a low-salt diet, according to the German Heart Foundation.
Too high a body mass index
: The Heart Foundation warns that blood pressure should rise by around 1 mmHg for every kilogram of excess weight.
Alcohol
: First beer and wine dilate the blood vessels and the blood pressure drops for a short time.
But then it increases, according to the Association for Diabetics in Lower Saxony.
The reason for this has not yet been clarified exactly, it is said.
Stress and excitement
: The saying "I'm at 180" means something like "I'm stressed and my blood pressure is way too high because of it".
It's true: excitement can skyrocket blood pressure.
Sport
: Shortly after training, the blood pressure values usually rise, but they drop again during the rest phase.
The bottom line is that sport lowers blood pressure, according to the German Heart Foundation.
Smoking
: Cigarettes or other tobacco products also trigger blood pressure fluctuations.
Regular blood pressure measurement helps to identify excessively high values in good time.
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The insidious thing is that
high blood pressure does not usually show up as symptoms.
Very few people with hypertension have headaches, dizziness, nosebleeds or heart pain, according to the German Heart Foundation.
Alarming blood pressure fluctuations are best diagnosed with a 24-hour blood pressure measurement.
(jg)
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