Question by Sonia: My doctor told me that every patient with high blood pressure should own a blood pressure monitor?
I have high blood pressure and I monitor my blood pressure readings by going to the grocery store and use the pharmacy BP monitor. Now my doctor told me that I should purchase my own personnel electronic blood pressure monitor and monitor my readings at home instead of going at the store. Any idea of a cheap but accurate blood pressure monitor?
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Answer by David K
Yes.. On ebay.. About 40 bucks, and it works fine for me. I also have high blood pressure, but it runs on my family, and I can’t do anything about it.
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The cardiologist of my daughter also recommended us to purchase a blood pressure monitor.
We got the Omron HEM 711A/C. It is close to $ 40 and her readings are pretty much the same as what she gets from her doctor office. So it is extremely accurate.
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Treat for dehydration and you won’t need a blood pressure monitor.
Contrary to what your doctor may have told you, high blood pressure is caused by dehydration. Doctors don’t agree because the only time they recognize dehydration is when the can charge you $ 385 to treat / prevent it with an IV in the ER. You can do the same thing at home (orally, not intravenously) for practically nothing. But the doctor won’t instruct you how to do it, because that would involve prescribing water – and there’s no profit in prescribing water.
Here’s what your doctor won’t tell you -
Every cell in the body needs vital nutrients to function properly. These nutrients are delivered by water – with salt mixed in. When you don’t drink enough water, the body rations the water supply to make it available to those organs that absolutely can’t survive on low water levels.
It then searches for water from other sources to inject into the cells. Because the blood is made up of 94% water and salt, this becomes one of the common sources to get the water. Borrowing the water from the blood causes the arteries to constrict and the blood to thicken. Now the heart has to exert more pressure to pump the blood – this becomes the high blood pressure readings.
Another thing that happens when the blood thickens is the salt that was mixed with the water gets concentrated. Doctors see this concentration of salt and call it “excess” and then claim that it is the cause of the high blood pressure. But this is untrue.
The salt was the result of the water being taken out of the blood – because of dehydration. The rise in blood pressure was the result of having to push the thickened blood through narrower arteries – which has nothing to do with salt. But it is the result of the water being taken out of the blood – again, because of the dehydration.
Here are a few facts about salt that goes against what the medical profession is trying to tell you -
The tissues in the body are made up of 75% water and SALT.
The brain is 85% water and SALT.
The blood is 94% water and SALT.
The recommended daily allowance for salt is 1 tsp per day. When a doctor gives a person an IV, they are giving that person 3 tsp of salt in about a liter of water. This is 3 times the recommended amount – and sometimes, patients get two, three or more IVs in the course of the day. Considering the high percentages of salt that are naturally occurring in the body, according to the medical professionals we should be walking coronary cases – we should be able to just sit back on a bench somewhere and literally watch people explode from high blood pressure.
The fact is, salt does not cause high blood pressure.
Doctors are trying to get you to cut back on salt for the same reason they’re trying to get you to drink anything but water – because it is detrimental to your health. Water and salt are two of the most important substances that sustain life (oxygen is THE most important). By conning you to take in inadequate amounts, you’ll get sick and come running to him for treatment and/or drugs.
And he’ll be there to help you with one hand out for your check, and the other one holding a rubber stamp that reads “FOR DEPOSIT ONLY”.
You can lower your blood pressure by increasing your water and salt intake and decreasing the soft drinks, coffee, energy drinks, etc. To learn how to do it correctly, click on the link below.