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What Are The Symptoms And Treatment For Postural Hypotension?

I need signs and symptoms for ORTHOSTATIC/POSTURAL HYPOTENSION Also, Treatment, common causes, and medications I could use this for all of the following : 3. Asthma Attack 4. Hyperventilation 5. Airway Obstruction 6. Avulsed Tooth 7. Seizure (Grand Mal, Absence, and Partial) 8. Hypoglycemia 9. Hyperglycemia 10. Allergic Reactions 11. Anaphylactic Reaction 12. Drug Use and Overdose 13. Cerebrovascular Accident 14. Angina Pectoris 15. Myocardial Infarction
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Orthostatic hypotension could be physiological when one gets up from lying down position suddenly due to peripheral piling of blood in lower limbs. It can be caused by certain drugs like nitrates used for treatment of hypertension. Symptoms include dizziness, light headed feeling and fainting spells. When getting up such individuals shouldn't stand up in one go, they should sit for sometime, take a few deep breaths, tilt head up and down slowly a couple of times and stand up slowly.
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What Are The Symptoms And Treatment For Postural Hypotension?

Orthostatic hypotension could be physiological when one gets up from lying down position suddenly due to peripheral piling of blood in lower limbs. It can be caused by certain drugs like nitrates used for treatment of hypertension. Symptoms include dizziness, light headed feeling and fainting spells. When getting up such individuals shouldn t stand up in one go, they should sit for sometime, take a few deep breaths, tilt head up and down slowly a couple of times and stand up slowly.