High blood pressure can lead to many problems but most people are unaware of the dangers of low blood pressure. This condition can lead to some serious health problems but since the people suffering from it are considerably less than people with hypertension not many studies have been done about the condition. Blood pressure is the force exerted by the blood as it travels through the arteries. Your pressure changes a lot during the course of the day.

The food you eat, stress and anxiety all of them affect your pressure one way or the other. Most of those factors tend to increase blood pressure but there are some people that have the not very common problem of having low blood pressure. A consistent reading below 90/60mmHg is known as hypotension. Normally having low pressure would be an indicator of good health but when is consistently too low is an indicator that you might be suffering from a serious health condition.

Low pressure can lead to some symptoms like dizziness, fainting, nausea, blurred vision. Regarding the symptoms is easier for a person to notice low pressure than high because the lack of symptoms associated with hypertension gives an additional danger element to the condition. Dangerous low levels of pressure can lead to low blood flow to the brain and the heart which means low oxygen intake for those organs exposing them to some critical damage. Other dangers are the effects on organs like the liver, lungs and kidneys that will suffer a lot of damage from low blood and oxygen intake.

Common causes of low pressure:

1. Dehydration is one of the main factors. For the body to work well a certain amount of fluids must be kept. Diarrhea and vomiting can lead to some serious dehydration causing a huge drop in the pressure. Sweating a lot without drinking the appropriate amount of water can also lead to dehydration. (more…)