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my mum has high blood pressure.what could be the possible causes ? it gets me worried so plz tell me a solution that i can present to her.
she is 41 years old.
she drinks 2 cups of tea a day
her height is 5′4.
in breakfast she eats 2 pieces of whole wheat bread with a cup of tea
in the afternoon she eats a white tortilla with gravy and meat
for dinner she also eats white tortilla with gravy and meat or potatoes sumtimes.
she is standing most of the time.its part of her job.
she eats fruit
she is takin iron pills these days due to deficieny

As to the causes of high blood pressure there are a lot of various factors that influence blood pressure such as -
Age ( as you get older the risk of high blood pressure increases)
Smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.
Obesity, lack of exercise and high amount of salt and fat in your diet.
Stress and family history can also influence blood pressure.
Treatment for high blood pressure will depend on your blood pressure levels and your associated risk of developing a cardiovascular disease, such as a stroke, if your Mothers blood pressure is only slightly high and the risk of cardiovascular disease are low, then there is no need to worry as this is common and can be altered by simply making lifestyle changes such as quitting smoking, reducing alcohol intake, reducing caffeine intake to less than five cups a day, eating a healthy low fat balanced diet, taking up regular exercise for 30 minutes per day and losing weight if you are overweight. If your mothers blood pressure is moderately high, her GP can offer treatment which is proven to be effective. so there is No need to worry

My boyfriend just had his annual physical yesterday and the doc told him he has high blood pressure. He has been taking a lot of allergy/sinus medicines to get rid of his sinus infection. He has taken Sudafed, Dayquil, Excedrin Migraine (for headaches), zinc tablets, and Vitamin C. Can any of this stuff cause high blood pressure?

Did he tell his doctor that he is taking all this stuff? He certainly should have.

Is it that doctors just don’t know the cause. My blood pressure is high for my age and no doctor can tell me why. I know it takes a while for the drugs to work, but I would like to find out the cause of my high blood pressure.

if you’re stressed out, overweight or have a very bad diet it can cause your blood pressure to go up. diabetes, excessive water gain and hereditary are common causes for high blood pressure

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if the colon cancer is making you feel ill, would this cause your blood pressure to increase? What other reasons would your blood pressure increase because of cancer, other than medications taken for cancer?

Yes cancer can cause hypertension. In a colon cancer it is probably due to liver mets involving the portal vein.

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I took a magnesium pill (250 mg) and during the night i noticed that i started to get high blood pressure and it continuted on to the next day. Is it because of the magnesium or something else?

Magnesium did not cause your high blood pressure.

Hypermagnesemia is an electrolyte disturbance in which there is an abnormally elevated level of magnesium in the blood. Usually this results in excess of magnesium in the body.

Hypermagnesemia occurs rarely because the kidney is very effective in excreting excess magnesium. It usually develops only in people with kidney failure who are given magnesium salts or who take drugs that contain magnesium (e.g. some antacids and laxatives). It is usually concurrent with hypercalcemia and/or hyperkalemia.

Symptoms include: Weakness, nausea and vomiting, Hypotension, Impaired breathing, Arrhythmia and asystole, most prominent cardiac symptoms are due to conduction delays, since magnesium acts as physiologic calcium blocker.

Causes for Cocaine Addiction

The term addiction is the other form of bad habit and it has a very large impact on the entire life. Most of the people get addicted in their teenage period. Cocaine is one of the narcotics that produce hazardous impact on human body. In general, people become addicted of cocaine due to depression and frustration. Some people take cocaine by coming under influence of bad company which causes addiction. It is used to keep low weight by people. People have scarcity of time use it to suppress the appetite.

Effects of Cocaine Addiction

Cocaine develops pseudo confidence inside a person and makes them physically weak. Initially, it damages cells of body and some time it may cause death. The addiction is categorized according to the consumption period. A person taken cocaine once or twice can be cured easily because it is an initial stage of addiction. However, if anybody using for long time then it is a tough task to make him de-addict. Long-term use of cocaine creates permanent disability. The user feels energetic, loss of appetite, abnormal heartbeat, and high blood pressure. It affects heart and vision very badly. There are many serious effects which ruins the life of cocaine addicts and which makes them not able to do their life activities.

Treatments for Cocaine Addiction

Cocaine addiction treatment can be done easily at primary level. People have short term addiction can be cured quickly. It takes more time in treatment of people using it for very long time. Various rehabilitation centers are working for cocaine de-addiction. Numerous programs are offered by these centers and clinics. Some time psychoanalyst and psychiatrist also give treatment to people under this addiction. Mental disorder and behavior change is treated by expert counselors. Residential treatment center is also designed for cocaine-addicted people. These treatments are proved to be one of the best options for all the addicts to recover from these addictions under professional guidance.

Cocaine Addiction Recovery

After cocaine addiction treatment, addicted people can live normal life. They are always assisted to come back in mainstream of society. Everyone should co-operate with addicted people. They should be given love and affection to regain their self-confidence. Every body should take resolution for cocaine de-addiction and prevent others from its bad effects. In most of the cases the cocaine addicts have been helping people by explaining their own treatments and the causes and effects of the addiction.

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An imbalance in hormones from pregnancy can cause high blood pressure. If you lost a baby due to this once, yes, it could happen again. There are certain medications to take for high blood pressure when preganant that you can consult your ob/gyn about. Keep a close check on your blood pressure…..do not put this off.

I’m 19 and have high blood pressure.. I feel really dizzy, weak and feel like i will throw up. I have been throwing up 2 times/night for the past two nights.. My doc only said that it was normal because I have high blood pressure. I dont understand. What could be some factors?

Being 19 years old has nothing to do with blood pressure!
Did not want to answer this question, but after reading all your wonderful answers received, I just had to! Here goes;

Causes? Well that is just common sense, your body has many arteries and veins transporting blood to every part of your body right? Okay your heart squeezes blood every second or so through these channels to meet your bodies needs, and through this there is a certain amount of pressure involved obviously!! Well when these channels start to become clogged with residue, gunk, plaque, cholesterol, fat, sludge or whatever the new phrase is by "Docs" today and people, obviously if it starts to block the bloods path, the heart will have to work a bit harder and thus creating a higher blood pressure!!! Duh?? Moving along here, we have the why and now we go deeper.

Remember when you were first diagnosed with high blood pressure and were first put on medications to "control your blood pressure"? Remember that? OK now, when was the next time your doctor took your blood pressure? Two months later? Six months? Three years? Never? The point is, if you’re taking these powerful medications to ‘control’ blood pressure, how will you or your doctor know if they’re working or not unless you monitor your blood pressure every few days?

Heart medications are like most medications – fine for short-term, life-threatening situations. But long term, as with any drug, legal or illegal, eventually your body will pay the price. Looking again in the Physicians’ Desk Reference [6], we find that even the manufacturers of most heart medications don’t recommend them for indefinite, open-ended use. That book is in any library. Look up your medication and see the recommended duration of prescription.

So people say – look at my BP – 130/84. And I’ve been on medication for 4 years. I need it to keep my blood pressure down. Well how do you know that you still need the drug to do that? Perhaps the heart has accommodated after all this time, or else maybe you have learned to do less and to make less energy demands on the system. Is this health? Are you getting stronger or weaker, year by year? And what about the very certain side effects of those drugs?

Others will say, yes I’ve been on medication for several years and my blood pressure is 160/105. Guess what? It’s not that your medication is ineffective – it is definitely having a physiological impact. It’s just that the effect is not the one your doctor predicted. Patients like this are at double the risk – high blood pressure plus drug toxicity and side effects.

Or they say – yeah I know it’s high, but if I stop with the medication, it’ll go through the roof. Long term or short term? How do you know? What if you were on vacation and your cruise ship marooned you on a desert island somewhere, without your drugs. Would you die? What would happen?

The point is, have you ever heard of a doctor taking somebody off heart medication because the drugs had finally cured the heart problem?

A SANER APPROACH TO NORMAL HEART HEALTH

What’s the alternative to this one-way downward spiral? It’s clear that a lifestyle of drugs and bad diet isn’t working too well and probably won’t last too long. Do people on heart medications look healthy? Do they have an active life? Are they getting stronger or weaker, year by year? Look at all the people you used to know in this category who are no longer around.

The natural alternative to dead end medicine is simply this: a combination of lifestyle change and detox. Do you see what you have to do now? No not yet? Okay I will tell you, it is lifestyle change and detox.

A universal principle for any life form is that either it’s improving or it’s dying. Day by day the inner systems are either becoming stronger and more refined, or else they’re degenerating and breaking down. Not both. Unless they’re in a serious accident, most people don’t die all at once, but by stages, day by day, very often with no pain or symptoms. Just like heart attacks. Do these people get a warning? In 40% of heart attacks, their very first symptom was death.

These days everybody is on the healthy heart bandwagon. But it’s mostly frantic, misguided marketing. No fat, low fat, fat free, heart health, low cholesterol, no cholesterol, no trans fats – these labels are found on some very heart-unfriendly foods. How can we make any sense of all this?

Change your diet 100% and detox. DO YOUR HOMEWORK KID!!!

YOU "DOC" WILL NOT DO IT FOR YOU, TRUST ME!!!!

I wish you the best.

The Gemini