encourager4God asked:
For those of you with medical backround I have a question When I was examined by a doctor recently I was told I have high blood pressure and I felt at peace and not upset. I dont drink alcohol I dont smoke what are good healthy practical ways to lower blood pressure and make it more normal? This also runs in my family. Any suggestions?
For those of you with medical backround I have a question When I was examined by a doctor recently I was told I have high blood pressure and I felt at peace and not upset. I dont drink alcohol I dont smoke what are good healthy practical ways to lower blood pressure and make it more normal? This also runs in my family. Any suggestions?
Exercise+Low salt&low fat diet
watch your salt intake and keep active, lots of water
If you are lover of animals then keep a small kitten in your house and then play with it you can observe that after some days your blood pressure is decreasing.
Talk with your doctor and ask for specific suggestions on what you can do and what your “goal” blood pressure is. Some of it will depend on how high your blood pressure is. Don’t get too relaxed. A lot of ppl with high blood pressure (and diabetes and high cholesterol) feel great, until they start having a lot of health problems.
watch your salt intake
Lower salt & red meat intake, along with removing stressors from your life.
try to eat healthy, exercise (any, doesn’t have to be rigorous/intense)
and lay off fattening and foods with a lot of fats
also you can take certain medicines that will lower your cholesterol, but it is best to consult it with a doctor before you
start (taking them)
Sometimes even if you’re fit and watching your diet carefully, and live a stressfree life, you could still have hypertension. In that case, the only way to control it is through medications. Blame it on your genes, you could just be unlucky. You said it runs in your family, right?
Other than that, you can keep your weight down to ideal, exercise, avoid excessive salt, keep your blood glucose down. Living free of stress can be harder than it looks, because it’s been shown that certain people have a much greater physiological reaction to stress than others, and again that’s genetics. If you have a problem with salt, take extra potassium to offset it.
do not ignore some type of treatment…work with your MD to get your BP down…you feel fine now, but the damage to your body and organs is silent…prevent the damage by lowering your BP now….
Get some healthy omega fatty acid in your diet.
Avoiding, or learning to control stress is the best way. Taking antihypertensive drugs in the long run will KILL you. Yes, it will lower your blood pressure, but will cause some worse to happen, breaking down your other systems, like the kidneys foe example. Most blood pressure meds are diuretics in nature.
For all of you saying run to the doctor and get some meds, she wouldn’t get them at first unless her blood pressure is really out of control. Well, some doctors would give them, but I’m not going there.
The first treatment is lifestyle modification, including diet and excercise, and yes, removing stress. Also if you’ve only had one high reading then you aren’t hypertensive. they have to follow up with two more to make that diagnosis.
If the lifestyle changes aren’t effective, then you would go on meds like beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, diuretics, vasodilators, etc.
Considering your family history you might end up taking meds to control your BP, but try the diet changes and exercise first.