What are the symptoms of high blood pressure?

1. Headaches and swelling

Not all headaches and swelling are necessarily a precursor to high blood pressure or brain hemorrhage, as they can be caused by colds, sleep deprivation, excessive alcohol consumption, or carbon dioxide inhalation. However, headaches caused by high blood pressure are quite common, and are an important indicator of how far high blood pressure has progressed.

High blood pressure causes headache, the part of the head is to the whole head of the conscious pain, rarely have a fixed part of the pain; the nature of the pain to the distension, the urge to reverse, drowsiness, dull pain and other characteristics of the main, and sometimes feel nausea, want to vomit. Be sure to go to the hospital for examination and treatment.

2. Vertigo

High blood pressure caused by vertigo, sometimes although mild vertigo, but the sense of loss of balance, generally more women than men.

This symptom requires special attention if it occurs frequently in the elderly. Because this symptom can be a precursor to a stroke.

3. Tinnitus

Many diseases can cause tinnitus, such as otitis media, anemia, sleep deprivation, excessive fatigue, etc., but most of the above are monaural tinnitus, caused by hypertension or cerebral arteriosclerosis, tinnitus often occurs in both ears, and tinnitus is severe and lasts for a long time.

4. Palpitations and shortness of breath

The so-called palpitations are the feeling that the heart is beating differently than usual, or accompanied by shortness of breath.

The main causes of palpitations and shortness of breath are heart failure, chronic respiratory failure, or blood vessel abnormalities and blood problems.

Cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure caused by high blood pressure, or myocardial ischemia and myocardial infarction caused by coronary artery atherosclerosis can cause the heart to function abnormally.

If heart failure, narrowing of blood vessels or anemia, the slightest exercise will have palpitations, shortness of breath occurs.

5. Numbness of the limbs

High blood pressure patients have numbness of the limbs. Many people wake up early in the morning and experience this, so they worry that they have high blood pressure.

In fact, it's not just high blood pressure that can cause this symptom. So you can't conclude that it's caused by high blood pressure.

This numbness in the hands and feet is sometimes just a short-lived physiological phenomenon. The numbness of the limbs caused by hypertension is not just numbness of the limbs, but in severe cases, there can be a certain part of the motor disorder, of course, there will also be a slight sensory disorder, but it is never temporary. If the limbs often appear numb phenomenon, and lasts a long time, we must go to the hospital in time to check.