Health Resources

If you have a problem with your blood pressure then your doctor should be your primary source of information. Blood pressure monitors may be used to help you keep a check on it and alert you to a potential problem or emergency. Every home should have one of these and it may well be the single most important thing in your home. These little devices can help to save lives.

If you blood pressure becomes too high then you can be at risk for sever health problems. Either of these can be fatal and some people who do survive never fully recover. It’s very important to seek medical attention as quickly as possible if your blood pressure becomes too high. To find out if you need medication to regulate it you should talk with your doctor.

When you blood pressure runs low it has a different effect. You may become dizzy or weak. This puts you at greater risk for falls and injuries. Low blood pressure can also be fatal. Extremely high or low blood pressure requires medical attention.  Read more...

Countless illnesses and ailments exist to day to can create a host of problems for an otherwise healthy life. Some of these problems come in like gangbusters, and announce themselves with obvious symptoms that are easy to identify. Others creep in silently during the night, and intend to hamper your health with stealth and deviousness.

Sleep apnea is a classic example of this. Millions of people today suffer from sleep apnea, and most of them are completely unaware of it. The main reason is the symptoms rarely show their face in the light of day. Most sleep apnea symptoms are only present while you are sleep.

If you think you have sleep apnea, there are a few telltale signs, or symptoms that can help you to diagnose this. One of the tricky parts about deciding if you have sleep apnea or not is that many of the symptoms can easily be mistaken for other, more common and less serious ailments. Consequently, they are often ignored.  Read more...

There is a secret illness that is quietly sweeping the country. This illness is very hard to detect, and if left untreated can cause a host of problems and can cost thousands of dollars in lost productivity and even endanger lives. The problem is sleep apnea. More and more people are starting to realize that they may suffer from this condition.

Sleep apnea has only come into the public consciousness fairly recently. Luckily, every year there is more and more money being spent on sleep centers and other research efforts to combat this condition. However advanced the research gets, the problem of discovery lies squarely on the face of the patient.

This can be a very hard condition to have. There is no blood scan, or collection of symptoms that point to sleep apnea and only sleep apnea. The reason this is such a hard thing to pin down is because apnea symptoms are often thought to be normal, everyday ailments that come with normal, everyday life.  Read more...

Last week I went with my girlfriend to get her hair done. She had spent a considerable amount of time driving me around while I was getting my car worked on, so I kind of owed her. It’s one of those give and take things that are necessary for a healthy relationship.

While we were waiting for her turn, I kept dozing off. She kept elbowing me in the gut to wake me up. But when she was actually getting her hair done, I was a mess. Afterwards she asked why I had stayed up so late the night before. When I told her I had gotten my normal eight hours, she became worried.

This worried my girlfriend. Her brother had a big problem with sleep apnea. One of the symptoms is snoring, and he used to keep his whole family awake at night. That is one of the symptoms. So when he checked it out with the doctor, they learned the dangers of untreated sleep apnea.

So when they went to the doctor, he went over all the symptoms with them. And the problem with sleep apnea is that many of the symptoms are very similar to those of other conditions. Headaches, being tired all the time, waking up frequently during the night.  Read more...

High blood pressure, or hypertension, at one time was believed to be strictly associated with adults, with the possibility of contracting it growing larger with age. But nowadays, higher numbers of children suffer from hypertension, and more attention is being paid to this situation. One percent of children below the age of 12 and up to 6% of teenagers suffer from this problem, as evidenced by a number of studies. If a child’s blood pressure exceeds that of 95% of others in his age group it is considered to be hypertension. To identify the cause of hypertension in children is becoming a significant concern.

Everyone recognizes that there are more and more obese people in the U.S. each year. What is often overlooked is that this problem is not limited to only adults. A startling 33% of children in this country are thought to be overweight to some extent. And this is the primary cause of hypertension in children.  Read more...

Essential hypertension is also known as primary hypertension. This type of hypertension is said to be essential or primary hypertension because it is basically, its own primary cause. This is to say the medical community can’t find any underlying cause for it. The patient simply has hypertension and that is the bottom line!

Dealing With Essential Hypertension

Usually a patient’s treatment for essential hypertension will include medication. This not to say such things as alcohol consumption and weight control are ignored, but since these things by definition are not causes for essential hypertension, usually it will take hypertension medication to control it. Still, essential hypertension can be controlled and so, it is not seen as a serious ailment so long as it is controlled without some unusual complication.

The Overall View

Some hypotheses state that essential hypertension does indeed have an underlying cause but as of yet no one has figured out what it is. The reason some think this is because sometimes one patient will respond to a particular treatment while another patient will be unaffected by the same treatment. Still, this is just speculation and really it is unnecessary to pinpoint an underlying cause.  Read more...

One of my client was speaking about the difference in her spouse’s blood pressure reading. When it is taken in home it is somewhere between normal and slightly high. But when it is taken at doctor’s clinic it reads very high.

By seeing the doctor her husband’s blood pressure was raising. My client wondered this way. But her husband thought he was not very much nervous by seeing the doctor. But he did admit that he could been subconsciously affected.

Her husband may be suffering from “White Coat Syndrome,” or “White Coat Hypertension.”

A person’s blood pressure may be raised in either a doctor’s office or even an office setting. However it reads normal at home. It may affect 10 to 20 percent of the adult population.

Blood pressure may differ when using a blood pressure cuff that is very small and that results in a high blood pressure read. At time the nurses and other medical professionals make take incorrect reading.

The risk may be smaller than chronic high blood pressure, but it is larger than normal. Now the question that needed an answer is Is this syndrome pose a health risk? And the answer is yes.  Read more...