"Panic attack" is a term in the world of medicine, and in domestic science it is commonly replaced by the term "vegetative crisis", although in the diagnosis and use the term "attack".

Signs of a panic attack are expressed in each patient is very individual, and each time can vary. The most dangerous thing for a person in this state - a sharp increase in blood pressure, which is observed not only in chronic hypertensive patients.


The attack usually takes place in the Wake of increased excitability and emotional stress, which leads to a sudden increase in pressure.

First aid



The patient must in the first minutes of the attack to measure your blood pressure, put him to bed, raising the head, to provide access to fresh air, to drink the drops of sedative effects, for example, Valerian.

If the blood pressure exceeds the value of 160\90, you need to immediately call the team "ambulance", which relieves pressure, reducing the risk of hypertensive crisis. During a panic attack the patient should be forbidden to make any sudden movements. All attempts to get up and run somewhere that is peculiar in a panic must be stopped.

The patient needs to regularly monitor your blood pressure, to determine whether the increase in the consequence of panic attack or is it a prerequisite for the emergence of hypertension.

The consequences



If the crisis was a consequence of the panic, doctors recommend that within 30 days of taking a mild sedative, it is quite suitable herbal infusions that are not addictive.

Repeated attacks usually the person feels, and then, can you prepare them. To reduce the risk of increasing the pressure necessary to open the window (even if it is winter time), lie down, relax and slow on the Trinity score to breathe. The active oxygen oxidant. It reacts with blood cells and nourishes the body, to treat panic attack and not letting the narrowed vessels.

At least 6 months will have to give up coffee and green tea, spicy and peppery, to limit the use of fried. Of course, no alcohol.

Panic attacks are never fatal and do not pass into chronic mental illness. Man, the first time faced with the manifestations of panic fears, he can't explain his condition, often cannot understand the source of fear, its cause.

The excitement of having a panic attack should cause people emotional, unbalanced and those who have suffered severe emotional distress. Usually if an attack passes, and with it stabiliziruemost and pressure for 20-30 minutes after the taken measures, have excitable personalities is born the fear of recurrence. The attack can come back the same day.

Diagnosing the patient's state receivei panic attacks, the doctor invites the patient to undergo treatment at the psychotherapist. It is also possible medication.