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Low Blood Pressure Strengths

There is a pride that comes with being healthy.  However, the Good Book says, “Pride comes before a fall.”  Exactly.  My sister’s fall in blood pressure to a natural healthy low reading had her gloating with pride.  Unfortunately, the fall to an even lower blood pressure went unnoticed and soon complications became apparent indicating something was wrong.

Low blood pressure can mean a variety of things. Mildly low blood pressure, or hypotension, may be a sign of good health. People who have lower blood pressures have a lower risk of stroke, kidney disease, and heart disease. People who exercise regularly, people who maintain ideal body weight, and non-smokers tend to have lower blood pressure. As in the case with my sister, she worked hard to lose weight, kept a nightly walk schedule and ate more cantaloupe (her favorite fruit in place of desserts).

Is Low Blood Pressure A Problem?

But, in some people, hypotension can be a problem when it falls beneath acceptable ranges. These are the normal low blood pressure readings:

• Adult: 117/70
• Teen (12-17): 116/70
• Child (8-12): 104-6/58-61
• Infant: 50-70/20-45

When blood pressure dips beneath these levels, blood flowing through the arteries to the heart is weak.  The problem with this is the blood doesn’t delivery enough oxygen and nutrients to your vital organs (brain, heart, kidney).  As a result, these low blood pressure symptoms become present:

Lightheadedness	Intolerance to heat
Dizziness	Feeling cold all over
Exercise intolerance	Belching after meals
Blurred Vision	Delayed gastric emptying
Chest discomfort and/or pain	Sleep disorders
Clamminess	Cold hands
Anxiety	Loss of sweating
Flushing	Chills
Fatigue	Light Sensitivity
Headache/migraine	Lethargy
Blood pooling in limbs	Weakness

You’ve probably noticed that lightheaded feeling when you get up quickly.  Someone who has low blood pressure will experience this symptom often times throughout the day. The blood pressure simply isn’t strong enough to deliver blood to the heart, and even a chest pain similar to a heart attack can develop.  Your brain is the first organ to feel the lack of oxygen and nutrients, which accounts for the lightheadedness or dizziness.

When insufficient blood is delivered to the kidneys, the kidneys fail to eliminate wastes from the body, regulate acid concentration and maintain water balance.  Due to my sister’s efforts to lose weight on a busy schedule with hectic demands, her body became dehydrated, vitamin deficient and her low blood pressure dropped so she ended up with in a kidney infection.

Malnutrition Cause  – Focus on Dietary Change

This is a direct outcome of a weakened and devitalized system. The most important cause of low blood pressure is faulty nutrition. It makes the tissues forming the walls of the blood vessels over-relaxed, and flabby or stretched. This results in less supply of oxygen and nutrients to the tissues. Malnutrition can result from a diet deficient in calories, proteins, vitamin C, or almost any one of the B vitamins and dehydration.

Treating low blood pressure naturally should aim at rejuvenating the whole system. In addition to antibiotics for my sister’s kidney infection, she followed this diet to restore her body to health:

• Three meals a day of fresh fruits at five-hourly intervals for 5 days.
• Followed by 2-3 weeks of fruit and milk.
• Adding raw vegetables, seed nuts and grains after 3 weeks of the milk and fruit diet.

Here are other low blood pressure home remedies:

• Try drinking a cup of beet juice twice a day for a week.
• Soak in an Epsom salt bath for 10-20 minutes before bed.
• Liberal use of pantothenic acid.
• Vitamin C, B vitamins and protein for adrenal production.
• Bring salty foods into the diet.
• Drink more fluids.
• Avoid alcohol.
• Adjust medications to lower dosage.

Since hypotension can contribute to falls, you should see the doctor if you have any blackouts or if you repeatedly feel faint and light-headed during the day.

Low blood pressure is not a fatal problem, but a persistent case can make a person timid in life.  These natural cure remedies are simple to revive the problem in a cost effective and natural process. Regular exercise, healthy diet and disciplined lifestyle add a hue of health on a person that you should be proud of!