Low blood pressure in women, how to treat

Hypotension in women is defined as blood pressure below 90/60mmHg, which can be divided into physiologic and pathologic categories. Physiologic hypotension can be relieved by improving lifestyle. Pathological low blood pressure can be divided into acute low blood pressure such as shock and chronic low blood pressure such as hypothyroidism, with different causes and different treatments. 1. Physiological: low blood pressure can occur in women with hereditary factors and thinness. In this case, no treatment is needed, and it is recommended to improve the lifestyle, intake of nutritious food, such as meat, eggs, milk, fish, etc., and appropriate exercise. 2. Pathologic: acute and chronic hypotension, often accompanied by dizziness, fatigue, sweating and other symptoms. (1) Acute hypotension: mostly seen in shock, acute myocardial infarction and other acute cardiovascular dysfunction, at this time the need to take different treatments for the cause of the disease, such as shock leads to low blood pressure, generally need to quickly replenish fluids, the use of adrenaline and other blood pressure medications, acute myocardial infarction generally need to be opened in the shortest possible time blocked coronary arteries, to restore the blood flow to the heart muscle. (2) Chronic hypotension: endocrine diseases, such as hypothyroidism triggered by a drop in blood pressure, you can take levothyroxine sodium tablets for relief. Neurogenic postural hypotension is caused by dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system, and it is necessary to be slow in changing the position when sitting up from the bed. Midodrine hydrochloride can be used to agonize the peripheral sympathetic nerves to raise the blood pressure. 3. Others: overdose of antihypertensive drugs such as olmesartan ester tablets can also cause hypotension.