Baric mountain: why is an abnormal rise in atmospheric pressure dangerous?
In Moscow, record records of atmospheric pressure – one after another. The value tends to 770 mm Hg. How such pressure affects health, Nana Pogosova, professor, doctor of medical sciences, president of the National Society of Preventive Cardiology, told MIR 24 TV channel.
– Indicators of atmospheric pressure for six days in a row exceed the norm by 15 – 20 units. How can this affect a person's well-being?
Nana Pogosova: Any changes in atmospheric pressure in one way or another affect the well-being of people. It's just that in the vast majority of people, these changes go almost imperceptibly, but there is a certain group of people – meteosensitive ones, who react to a greater extent.
– With high blood pressure, do hypertensive patients feel worse, and hypotensive people feel better?
Nana Pogosova: Yes, you are right. First of all, people with diseases, primarily cardiovascular diseases, react to changes in the weather, climate, cataclysms. Among them, it is worth highlighting hypertensive patients – people with chronically high blood pressure.
Not only these react to changes, but also people with nervous diseases, people with a tendency to allergies, people with diseases of the musculoskeletal system. As for hypotensive patients, as doctors say, hypotensive patients are potential hypertensive patients. Often, some hypotonic people feel more vigorous during a period of high atmospheric pressure, but not all.
Baric mountain: why is an abnormal rise in atmospheric pressure dangerous?
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– What happens to hypertensive patients?
Nana Pogosova: During this period, their blood pressure may become destabilized. As a rule, the majority complains of a headache, pressing, severe, and an increase in blood pressure. If their blood pressure is traditionally increased, then these figures may be higher. There are such sensations as palpitations, unpleasant sensations in the area of the heart, they complain of a decrease in working capacity. That is the usual set of symptoms.
– If you don't react in any way, how can it end?
Nana Pogosova: Of course, to say that there is a direct connection between an increase in atmospheric pressure and an increase in heart attacks and strokes, there is no such data, but some small cataclysms in the form of a lung crisis happen. That is why the main recommendation for meteosensitive patients, especially hypertensive patients, is to be more attentive to blood pressure indicators.
This is an important element in the life of a person with high blood pressure – self-control. We always recommend that you measure your blood pressure in the morning and in the evening in order to be aware of these numbers if you need to take an additional dose of drugs.
– You said that allergy sufferers may have an exacerbation due to high atmospheric pressure. Why?
Nana Pogosova: There are scientific studies that show that at elevated atmospheric pressure, there is a decrease in the number of leukocytes in the blood. This suggests that the immune system is suffering. Appears, if it is a long period, a tendency to susceptibility to infectious diseases. In addition, usually, when the pressure is high, forecasters talk about an anticyclone. During an anticyclone, as a rule, there is calm weather, and as a result, a high concentration of various harmful substances, which are very characteristic of megacities. They are allergens, can provoke an exacerbation of allergic reactions, diseases and diseases of an allergic nature.
– How to reduce the possible consequences of the vagaries of nature?
Nana Pogosova: During this period, it is desirable, as I said, to measure the pressure. It is very important to enable the body to adapt more effectively during this period – not to get tired, adhere to the principles of a healthy diet, for example, limit salt. Hypertensive patients generally need to limit salt, and especially during cataclysms.
There are mood swings – something positive for oneself, for the soul, in order to neutralize the negative emotional background, which often also causes discomfort and psychological stress.
– Is it worth observing a special regime?
Nana Pogosova: Low physical activity is a very bad thing, because it leads to a decrease in vascular tone. As a rule, people with low physical activity are in the forefront of weather-sensitive citizens. Increasing physical activity is a universal and proven method for increasing vascular tone and increasing the body's adaptive reserves for centuries. Those who adhere to the principles of a healthy diet and sufficient physical activity adapt well. Walking – yes: both leisurely and light Scandinavian walking is an excellent solution to improve mood, and to increase the activity of the immune system, and to stabilize the work of the cardiovascular system.
– Is it better not to abuse physical education these days?
Nana Pogosova: Yes, it is better not to overuse a lot of physical activity, but a little physical activity in the video of morning exercises or a leisurely walk is more than shown.
– Limit tonic drinks too?
Nana Pogosova: We said that during this period, blood pressure naturally rises, because external pressure rises, respectively, drinks that increase blood pressure due to their tonic effect, it is better not to abuse them. I'm not saying that hypertensive patients shouldn't have coffee at all (this is wrong), but the fact that during this period it is better not to abuse this drink or dark tea, which contains a lot of caffeine, is true. If coffee is weak and infrequently during the day, tea is also weak.
