blood pressure

[dive75]

Hi there, I wonder if any of you may know the answer to this in order to save me a trip to the doc's.

If I spend a long time, ie half an hour, in the bath my blood pressure seems to drop and I become vey weak and faint, this also happens when I get out of the bath. Does anyone know what is causing this and what I may do to prevent this from happening in the future.

Cheers

[OBonio]

Postural Hypotension can be caused by standing up to quickly and overheating.

http://www.msaweb.co.uk/postural.htm

Even so, you should get checked out by your GP if you are worried.  Low BP is as serious as high BP.

[dive75]

thats a great help, thankyou.

[Marvin84]

I get that if the bath water is too hot..... try a milder temperature.....???

[FP]

I get it as well when the water is too hot.  Sometimes it makes me feel very sick as well. This is extremely common and I don't have low blood pressure.  Just try a lower temperature in the bath and don't worry about it.

Although low blood pressure can be as a result of an illness,  in general doctors do not worry about it.  My father had low blood pressure all his life and was told it was a good thing rather than bad.  A lot of athletes have quite low blood pressure.

[keen2learn]

It seems to be very common - I get it too. Obviously can't be that bad. Offhand, I'd say that the warmth of the bath is causing peripheral vasodilation - hence your skin turns that pretty pink colour - and that makes your blood pressure fall, so you feel faint, dizzy and nauseous. I think you need to have shorter baths, dive75!

[dive75]

hi guys, thanks alot for all your feedback...... im gonna jump in the bath now! although the water wont be too hot!!