For patients with hypertension, once the disease is developed, they need to take antihypertensive for the rest of their lives. Otherwise, the blood pressure value will rise repeatedly and the probability of inducing an acute heart attack, cerebral infarction, and other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases will be very high, which will be more dangerous to health and even life. When taking medication, many precautions must be kept in mind, otherwise not only will the blood pressure value rise repeatedly, but also cause certain harm to other systems or organs.
The details for hypertensive patients to take antihypertensive drugs
1. Do not change the dose by yourself
For some hypertensive patients, after taking antihypertensive drugs for a while, the blood pressure value will always be in a stable state. So they will reduce the medication on their own, this behavior is wrong.
Once suffering from hypertension, you need to take antihypertensive drugs for life to be able to stabilize blood pressure and achieve the role of avoiding some vascular diseases.
Once you stop the medication or reduce the amount of medication on your own, it will most likely lead to unstable blood pressure, or even a sudden rise in blood pressure, which is difficult to fall.
2. Do not change your medication indiscriminately
For hypertension patients, do not choose some antihypertensive drugs to take indiscriminately, and do not mix some antihypertensive drugs.
If you change your medication frequently or take it indiscriminately, not only will it not work to lower your blood pressure, but it may also form drug resistance. Even if you take the drugs, your blood pressure will still rise.
In addition, most antihypertensive drugs can cause some harm to the kidneys.
If you take some antihypertensive drugs indiscriminately for a long time, these drugs will lead to damage to kidney function. In serious cases, it can even cause chronic kidney failure, which is very dangerous to health.
3. pay attention to life adjustment during the medication
Many hypertensive patients are taking antihypertensive drugs, still appear to drink alcohol, smoking, staying up late, as well as eating some high salt, high oil, high sugar, and other food behavior.
If hypertension patients have such behavior, it will lead to erratic blood pressure, which is very harmful to vascular health.
Therefore, hypertension patients must adjust their habits during the medication, three meals a day should be plant-based food, especially vegetables, beans, and coarse grains of food, these foods can play an auxiliary effect of lowering blood pressure.
4. Blood pressure should still be measured regularly every day
Most of the hypertension patients during taking antihypertensive drugs, almost will not appear to monitor blood pressure, this behavior is not desirable.
For hypertensive patients, they must monitor their blood pressure every day, even if they do not feel any discomfort, they should also do a good job of monitoring their blood pressure.
It is especially important to monitor blood pressure when the temperature changes significantly.
Once the phenomenon of elevated blood pressure, accompanied by some dizziness, headache symptoms, must be quickly treated to ensure their health to the greatest extent.
All in all, hypertension patients, when taking antihypertensive drugs must pay attention to the above four points.In addition, you should take your medication regularly every day and do not miss any medication.
During the treatment period, patients should consult a doctor promptly if their blood pressure becomes unstable, and should not change their medication on their own. In addition, do not take antihypertensive drugs with drinks or milk, or other beverages.
And when taking antihypertensive drugs, you must stop smoking and drinking to stabilize blood pressure.