Healthy Tips: High Blood Pressure

High blood pressure is a medical issue that affects a large number of people.  The tricky thing about it, is that until the blood pressure gets dangerously high you don’t have any symptoms.  So if there aren’t any symptoms why would we bother to treat it? Especially with medications that may not make a person feel well, such as having to run to the bathroom to pee all day.  The reason we treat it is that while you may not be feeling any symptoms that elevated blood pressure is causing all kinds of damage to you body.  Your blood is slamming into your delicate organs with so much pressure that they cannot handle it.  The organs effected the most are your kidneys, brain and eyes.  Uncontrolled blood pressure can lead to strokes, blindness, and kidney failure.  And its not like these things will happen when you are “older”. If the pressures are high enough people in their 30’s and 40’s can have significant health issues related to high blood pressure.  So if you have high blood pressure, make sure you take your medicine, watch how much salt you eat and regularly see your health care provider.