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Things that can be done to lower high blood pressure…

What is High Blood Pressure?
Arteries carry blood from heart to rest of the body. While carrying blood they put pressure on artery walls. This pressure is called blood pressure and high blood pressure occurs when your blood moves through your arteries at a higher pressure than normal.
The upper or first number in a blood pressure reading is the systolic pressure which is the peak blood pressure when your heart is squeezing blood out and the lower or second number is called the diastolic pressure which is the pressure when your heart is filling with blood relaxing between beats. A normal blood pressure is less than 120/80. Symptoms may include dizziness or dizzy spells, headache or nosebleeds.

Causes of High Blood Pressure
- Weight
- Activity level
- Use of tobacco
- Excessive sodium intake
- Stress
- Low potassium intake
- Age and alcohol consumption
- Diabetes
- Some causes are kidney disease, hormonal disorders, thyroid disease, adrenal gland disease, and the use of certain drugs.
The complications that are caused by high blood pressure are narrowing of the arteries, stroke, heart attack, heart failure, kidney failure or eye damage.

Things that can be done to reduce high blood pressure
- Reducing your salt intake, eating more fruit and vegetables and keeping to alcohol limits will lower your blood pressure.
- Being more active and taking regular exercise lowers blood pressure by keeping your heart and arteries in good condition.
- Being the right weight lowers blood pressure because your heart doesn’t have to work so hard.
- Try Yoga, it will reduce stress.
- Eat a healthy and well balanced diet.
- Limit the intake of alcohol.
- Avoid tobacco products and secondhand smoke.
- Cut your caffeine intake.
- Have cholesterol and triglycerides checked regularly.
- Increase your fiber intake.

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Treatment options available for Lazy Eye (Amblyopia)

Early treatment of lazy eye or amblyopia before the age of two is considered to offer the best outcomes. Treatment of amblyopia after the age of 17 is not dependent upon age but requires more effort including vision therapy.
Most of the treatments described below are meant to treat the amblyopia itself. Once the weaker eye’s visual data is accurate, rehabilitation of the relationship between the brain and the eye can begin.
- Patches : It means covering one eye for a period of few weeks to as long as a year. The better-seeing eye is patched, forcing the “lazy” one to work, thereby strengthening its vision. Most often, patients are required to wear the patch for six hours a day. Some of the drawbacks of patching are the child cannot see well and is often frustrated and uncooperative if the good eye is covered. Often the patch has to be taped over the child’s eye to prevent him from removing it.
- Atropine eye drops : It blurs the vision of strong eye. Atropine dilates the pupil, resulting in blurring when looking at things close up – this makes the lazy eye work more. It can have rare side effects such as irritation in the eye, reddening of the skin and headaches.
- Vision therapy : The vision therapy is a combination of patching or eye drops, eye exercises, computer software to augment the exercises, and prescription eyeglasses or contact lenses. Vision therapy is basically physical therapy for the eye. It is thus a form of neurological training and rehabilitation.
- Lazy Eye Surgery : It is most successful in cases where the child’s amblyopia is caused by constant unilateral strabismus in a single eye. The surgery is performed to turn the eye in the proper direction, both for vision and cosmetic purposes.

In conclusion, improvements are possible at any age, but early detection and treatment offer the best outcome.