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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye.

High blood pressure

High blood pressure is more often than not present with other health problems. Some of the conditions present might be serious enough to warrant a more aggressive treatment. These conditions are:

-Diabetes
-Heart failure
-Chronic kidney disease
-Previous heart attack
-High risk of coronary artery disease
-Enlarged left chamber of the heart (left ventricular hypertrophy)
-Previous stroke

You might be prescribed specific high blood pressure medications to treat these conditions, as well as additional medications for your high blood pressure.

Controlling High Blood Pressure

Engaging a healthy lifestyle is a very important factor to control your high blood pressure. Even though you may be on medication to treat your high blood pressure (hypertension), your lifestyle is still extremely crucial along with your medication treatment. You may even reduce the need for medication or avoid it if you can control your high blood pressure condition successfully.

If you can make at least one change to your current lifestyle, there is a very high chance that you will be able to control your high blood pressure more successfully than one who doesn't. Do you know that by having a lower blood pressure, you can live a long life? You will have reduced risk on heart attack, kidney diseases or even stroke.

Red eye symptoms High Blood Pressure

The occurrence of red eye symptoms (e.g. as in subconjunctival hemorrhage) often indicates high blood pressure. Most common causes for poor blood circulation are free radical damage to the circulatory system, lack of healthy nutrition (deficiency of vitamins, minerals, aminos acids and essential fatty acids) and acid toxins within the body.

As a result the veins, arteries and capillaries will not be able to cope and may cause poor blood circulation. Medicines and supplements that may increase the risk of a subconjunctival hemorrhage are : Blood-thinning medications, such as warfarin and aspirin, Ginseng, Ginkgo, Garlic,Ginger,St. John's wort, Cayenne.

CONCLUSION

High blood pressure is often labeled the 'silent killer' because it does just that; with no warning, hypertension will kill! In fact, in the United States there about 300,000 deaths contributed to high blood pressure.

But to make matters worse, in the last years of your life you will suffer from type 2 diabetes. These symptoms include: extreme fatigue; excessive urination; feeling thirsty; dehydration; excessive hunger; poor wound healing; altered mental functioning and blurry vision.