It is bad enough that you have high blood pressure. However, it would be twice the unfortunate fate if you also have Anemia. Having both Anemia and high blood pressure, is a very complex condition that are affected by different factors and risks.

What is Anemia?

Anemia is the most common blood disorder. It is a condition in which you have extremely low number of red blood cells (RBC), which circulates through your body. This condition is considered abnormal since red blood cell counts are normally high.

Basically, Anemia is having a condition of deficient density of red blood cells.

However, it is not a disease. Anemia is a condition resulting from having substandard levels of hemoglobin in your red blood cells. Hemoglobin is the pigment that contains iron of the red blood cells. It is the one responsible for carrying oxygen from your lungs to your tissues.

There are various kinds of anemia. Each kind has its own cause. One kind can result from having a poor diet. Other severe types of Anemia are usually inherited.

How Does It Occur?

To be able to comprehend why anemia occurs, it’s important for you to understand the basic function of blood first. Blood is a mixture of plasma and cells. Its red color is due to erythrocytes, which comprises majority of your blood’s cells.

If you are a healthy person, you should have about 5 million red blood cells for each cubic millimeter of blood in your body. Each erythrocyte cell contains a hemoglobin protein, which carries oxygen throughout your body.

Recycling and creating red blood cells is extremely complex. Trouble can happen at any point in the cycle. If your red blood cells fail to successfully transport oxygen throughout your body, Anemia can be the resulting condition.

What Happens Next?

In the condition of having Anemia, if you get a sample of 10mL of your blood and compare it with another 10mL of a healthy person’s blood, the noted difference would be the red blood cell count.

Since your body needs oxygen found in your red blood cells, then your body would tend to have a reflex of producing more volume of blood in able to reach your body’s demand for oxygen. This is most especially crucial in supplying oxygen to your brain.

If this happens, your heart would have to pump more blood, and your heartbeat would be twice or even thrice as fast as the normal rate. This can cause into a slight increase in blood pressure, since your heart pumps more volume of blood, then more pressure is given to your artery walls.

Although, anemia can cause only a slight increase in blood pressure; it is a different situation if you already have hypertension as a different condition itself. This can be dangerous since Anemia can higher your already high blood pressure. It can also be a cause of a special type of hypertension, which is isolated systolic hypertension.

Anemia plus hypertension can be a high risk factor for developing other conditions such as cardiomyopathy, cerebrovascular arrest, cardiac arteriosclerosis, coronary atherosclerosis, atrial attack, heart bypass cardiopulmonary clot, and other vein accidents.

There have been a lot of CMS (Centers for Medical and Medicaid Services) conferences and forums, which tackle on drugs involving anemia and hypertension. The use of ACE (Angiotensin-converting enzyme) inhibitors, a drug that is usually used by diabetics, can also cause Anemia.

The good thing is that you can treat anemia with homeopathic medicine. Through homeopathy, you are able to battle hypertension and anemia even at the comforts of your own home. You can always take iron supplements and high blood pressure supplements to help control the further development of your condition.