High Blood Pressure Treatment An Introduction
Keywords: High Blood Pressure, Hypertension, Stress
In the early days, Healthcare Professionals were reluctant to prescribe Drugs for patients with a High Blood Pressure reading of less than 160/100 Hg. At this time these levels were deemed not to be dangerous as they were viewed as gentle High Blood Pressure.
The thinking behind this all was that the possible dangers of the side effects of the medication used at the time might outweigh the benefits of the medication. The chances of increased adverse reaction and increased side effects of the drugs were considered too great to warrant the introduction of medication.
Things have moved on however and attitudes have changed. Both of the above perceptions relating to the danger of the side effects and the mild nature of the blood pressure readings have lead to the discontinuance of this practice.
Recent research has confirmed the importance of treating Stage 1 Hypertension (a reading of between 140/90 and 159/99 Hg) as soon as is possible with medication. It is now also considered best practice to treat patients who also suffer from Diabetes and High Blood Pressure if their readings are as low as 130/80 Hg. The sensitivity of pharmaceuticals nowadays is such that blood pressure levels can be controlled with much lower dosages with a corresponding drop in the danger of side effects.
Never has there been a greater variety of medication available to Doctors from which to choose. These Anti High Blood Pressure Drugs also include many types where there is a combination of several different types of drug. The newer types of drugs quite often have a different chemical makeup and structure compared to the traditional medicine but quite often produce nearly identical effects on the human body.
The variety and sophistication of medication is such now that Healthcare Professionals can produce care plans and programmes tailored to the individual patient and in most cases prescribe medication that have negligible side effects to the sufferer and protect against possible further difficulties down the line.
The common initially accepted approach to High Blood Treatment nowadays is to start slow and low and then gradually increasing the dosage of the medicine prescribed until the High Blood Pressure levels sink to a normal level. If this is not shown to work or causes troublesome adverse reactions then a wide number of replacements are available for use.
The target levels here are 140/90 Hg. For those with diabetes or chronic kidney disease then the ideal targets are reduced to 130/80 Hg. For Stage 2 Hypertension (the old levels of conventional High Blood Pressure) then the accepted course of is to start with at least 2 drugs. If this does not appear to be working then the idea is to start an additional course of medication using another drug alongside the first two.
As in all cases like these, the effectiveness of these programmes and care plans is greatly increased by a reduction of activities that might cause associate problems therefore changing your diet; reducing your consumption of alcohol considerably and stopping smoking altogether do help.
Nuff said really.
Stephen Morgan writes for www.highbloodpressure.name and further details about this subject and other associate
matters can be found at
www.livingwithhighbloodpressure.net
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