What Does This BP Reading Of 40 Indicate?

Posted on Thu, 10 Nov 2016

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Question : I had a blood pressure of 40 onSunday shortly after I entered Lambeau field. I was light headed and Iwas feeling faint. I was taken to ER and overnight at the hospital. How much in danger was I?

Answered by Dr. Indranil Ghosh (2 hours later)

Brief Answer:
it was very dangerous

Detailed Answer:
Hi
Thanks for your query.

A BP of 40 is extremely dangerous and cause critically low blood flow to vital organs like brain and kidney. Dehydration should not be allowed to progress to such a level where BP is so low.

Anyway, as you have recovered now then no problems. But please prevent such incident in future.

Hope this helps.
Regards

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar