How to self management of blood pressure

Also rise more and more blood and too worried about high blood pressure, prevents accurate….

To ensure accurate diagnosis of high blood pressure and treatment effect is out, you must correctly measuring the blood pressure. So easy to fluctuating blood pressure, that make up the measuring conditions are important. Describes the way along the 2009 guidelines for hypertension treatment.

System of Government choosing blood pressure meter
Say blood pressure types measure in the arm, professionally “blood pressure” on the upper arm cuff oscillometric method would be better. Gauge at the wrist and fingers are discouraged accurate measurements can be difficult.

Blood pressure measurement of the??
Is basically measured the following conditions is desirable.

• Morning, up from less than one hour
• Before you eat breakfast
• Before taking the pills in the morning
• The rest sit 1-2 minutes after

On measured under the conditions above, careful habits measure decided to rest sit 1-2 minutes after can sleep the night before the morning. Or 2 times measurements are troublesome 1, also by comparing the potential and risk of cardiovascular diseases known “morning hypertension may morning blood pressure higher than the night” is the measure pass blood pressure is important.

Also have high blood pressure and anxiety turned back many times measure how is basically to measure one opportunity let up to three times. Are enough 1 times. But once again, blood pressure, easy to change. It is important to not fret over the continuing daily measurements.

Blood pressure goal value

That happens in it to persistent high blood pressure, prevent the onset of cardiovascular diseases such as stroke or myocardial infarction, angina primarily to treat high blood pressure. Therefore, blood pressure target value depends on by the presence of organ failure due to risk factors of cardiovascular diseases other than the blood pressure, high blood pressure or heart vascular disease complications. Main objectives are as follows:

• Young and middle-aged person…. less than 130 / 85 mmHg
• For the elderly… less than 140 / 90 mmHg
• Diabetes and chronic kidney disease and myocardial infarction after… less than 130 / 80 mmHg
• Cerebrovascular disease (stroke later)… less than 140 / 90 mmHg

Treatment of high blood pressure

Phase 1 of the treatment of high blood pressure is lifestyle modification and phase 2 drugs lower blood pressure (antihypertensive drug) treatment.

First of all, lifestyle we improved following points.

System of Government to limit salt intake
Salt intake is one day less than 6 g. “Sodium” that has good food, “salt = sodium” is not. “Sodium (g) × 2.5 = salt (g)” “remember the official.

Strive for balanced diet??
Note seems to especially eat lots of fruits and vegetables, fish, just take the fat from the meat or products.

System of Government to lose weight
If high blood pressure associated with obesity are often can improve blood pressure 4-5 kg of weight loss.

System of Government incorporates motion
Daily exercise is one of the good treatment that “exercise”. From the impossibility of not just fine, but 1, 30 goals aerobic exercise such as walking.

System of Government to limit alcohol
Drunk after drinking hours decreases your blood pressure over time will cause a rise in blood pressure. Men 1, per sake if up to 1 degree.

If lifestyle changes or even slowing blood pressure enough to start treatment with drugs. However, for the high risk of cardiovascular diseases patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease, myocardial infarction, start treatment immediately using a drug with lifestyle modification.

High blood pressure drug

Main antihypertensive divided 5 types. If the effect is insufficient for the one type of drug may increase 2 kinds, 3 types. 1, One can divide if often taking what is blood pressure fluctuate in a one-day pass. You may also to temporarily stop or weight loss drugs is summer because blood pressure fluctuate by season, falling blood pressure easy to. To conduct such as this is the best treatment is of daily blood pressure measurement is very important.

Blood pressure antihypertensive drugs, stable, and has better I cured and stop your medication, blood pressure medication is minimal, please to freely やめず to consult doctor and rebound and stop the medication that often, so.