REAL MEANING OF BLOOD PRESSURE


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                      BLOOD PRESSURE



  • Blood pressure is the most essential part of our body and deviation in its normal value leads to severe consequences.
  • It causes a disastrous effect on our body if its value fluctuates drastically, so before knowing about the serious consequences it is very important for you to know …
  • What exactly blood pressure is?
  • What is its significance and how it is measured?

What is blood pressure?

  • Our heart is a muscular organ which beats and contracts and passes blood to all the organs and to all the tissues of our body.
  • Our heart has two types of beats called as lubb and dubb now to understand blood pressure it is very important for you to understand some key concepts of our heart
  • The heart is the main component of our circulatory system it has 4 chambers above 2 are known as the atrium and the lower two are termed as ventricles
  • Now as our body our heart has 2 sides one is left and one is right
  • The right side of the hearty consist of the right atrium and right ventricle blood passes from the right atrium to the right ventricle and from there to a pulmonary artery from pulmonary artery blood goes to the lungs, in lungs gaseous exchange occurs then blood goes from the lungs to the left atrium, then the left ventricle and then finally from the aorta to the whole body
  • Now this aorta is very important for us because through that only we can understand blood pressure.
  • Now as blood flows from the aorta it imparts pressure on the wall of the aorta and that pressure is known as blood pressure.
  • Whenever you visit your doctor they say your systolic bp is this much diastolic is this much at that moment you might wonder what does this systolic and diastolic actually means, so the next two terms are very important for you because to know about any disease completely you have to know what actually every term means.

Systolic Bp


According to the definition systolic bp is the amount of pressure measured during systole now u will think what does systole means so in the easy language it is the amount of blood that flows through the aorta when your heart contracts and pressure exerted by that blood on the aortic wall is known as systolic blood pressure its normal value is 120+_ 40 this means it's normal the range is 80- 160.


Diastolic Bp


  • According to the medical definition, it’s the amount of the pressure exerted by the blood during diastole in an easy language the meaning of this term is the amount of blood flowing from the heart through the aorta during relaxed state and pressure exerted by that blood on the wall of the heart is known as diastolic bp its normal value is 80+_40 its range is 40-120
  • Any fluctuation above the normal range is considered as abnormal and if there is long term fluctuation like if you have constant bp of more than 150 then you might be suffering from hypertension it has again some serious impact on our body I will discuss that in detail in my other articles
  • Now you have understood what is bp its normal value, so now it is also very important for you to understand how to calculate your bp and before that, I would like to tell you an important point regarding normal bp during exercise, the range which I have told above is not the same it changes according to the person to person so don’t get worried always measure the bp when your body is relaxed.

Blood pressure measurement

  • How can you measure your bp every person reading this article should know this because each time you can’t go to the doctor for that
  • For measuring blood pressure you can use normal electrical bp machine or mercury bp machine in comparison mercury blood pressure machine is better it gives accurate results you can also call it a sphygmomanometer but it is costlier and if you have small children’s in your home then do not buy it because if they try to consume it, it can be deadly for them.
  • Both the machine consist of a strap a pump and in electric one there will a monitor and in mercury one there is a scale
  • In electric one what you have to do is just tie the strap 2 fingers above your elbow and press the pumper again and again and see the monitor, once it reaches 140 stop pumping then automatically it will show the reading and while removing the strap there will be a knob near the pumper release and do remember to tighten the knob before pressing the pumper.
  • After a few seconds, it will tell you the approximate blood pressure value. I would like to suggest that take the reading 3 times for the accurate results
  • Now for the mercury one, you have to practice a lot, and it has little major concepts and a little error can fluctuate the reading so you need a trained professional for that so whenever you visit a doctor try to convince them to measure you bp through the mercury one if it is available
  • If your age is above 40 years you should check your blood pressure on a regular basis to prevent long term diseases.

Thank you 

Stay fit and healthy 


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