How to ensure the safety of taking antihypertensive drugs for hypertension? This article summarizes 3 points, it is recommended to collect

 There are many friends who have high blood pressure. If high blood pressure is not controlled for a long time, it will gradually lead to cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, kidney health and many other health hazards. If you want to control high blood pressure, a large number of friends are all People who need to take antihypertensive drugs for a long time, and in the process of long-term medication, many friends worry that taking the medicine all the time will harm their health, and even because of this worry, they stop taking the medicine privately, causing the blood pressure to soar and harming their health. How can we ensure the safety of medication during the long-term use of antihypertensive drugs? Let's talk about this knowledge today.

Appropriate understanding of drug-related knowledge

Some friends may say: What are the side effects of taking medicine and what should be paid attention to? Those are all doctors' affairs. How do we ordinary people understand this? But one thing to understand is that even if you encounter a serious and responsible doctor, it is impossible to clearly remind all the medication risks, and even if you explain in detail, we may not be able to remember them all. And it is ourselves who need to take medicine for a long time. Therefore, in an attitude of being responsible for our own health and medication safety, it is very necessary to at least understand the medicines that we need to take for a long time and to understand the relevant medication knowledge.

Regarding the relevant drug knowledge that antihypertensive drugs should know, let's briefly say a few points for everyone.

If you want to ensure the safety of medication, you should first understand the adverse drug reaction information. Where is this information generally contained? The adverse reactions and precautions in the instructions are generally basically covered. Therefore, it is necessary to read the instructions carefully to understand the risks of adverse reactions of the drug before taking the medicine.

For example, Pristine antihypertensive drugs have a certain risk of adverse reactions that can cause dry cough. If a friend with high blood pressure suffers from a dry cough during the period of taking Pristine drugs, he has been treated as a cough. , But it has no effect. If you know that it is an adverse reaction of the drug, stop the drug in time and change other antihypertensive drugs, the problem can be solved at once.

Regarding the adverse reactions of antihypertensive drugs, one more thing to note is that some adverse reactions may appear in the early stage of taking the medication, and the body will gradually tolerate them as the time of taking the medication increases, while some adverse reactions may occur during long-term medication. Yes, such as amlodipine, a common antihypertensive drug. In the early stage of taking the drug, there will be adverse reactions such as flushing, headache, and rapid heartbeat caused by increased sympathetic excitability caused by lower blood pressure, but they are usually The tolerance will gradually disappear, but in the process of long-term medication, problems such as ankle edema and gingival hyperplasia may occur. For the risk of adverse reactions caused by these long-term medication, it is necessary to pay attention and fully evaluate whether the medication plan needs to be replaced or adjusted.

In addition to the risk of adverse drug reactions, you should also pay attention to the possible risks of sudden drug withdrawal, such as beta blockers. If you need to stop the drug, you should gradually reduce the dose before stopping to avoid sudden drug withdrawal Cause tachycardia, increase the risk of medication.

The drug interaction item in the drug insert is also worthy of special attention to understanding drug-related knowledge. Especially for friends who take a variety of drugs, it is worthy of special attention to understand the drugs that may interact with each other and try to avoid drug safety problems caused by drug interactions.

All in all, for the antihypertensive drugs we are about to take for a long time, carefully reading the instructions to accurately understand the possible adverse reactions of the drugs and other medication safety information is one of the prerequisites for ensuring the safety of long-term medications. It is recommended that you must not ignore it.

Pay attention to blood pressure monitoring

Long-term medication control blood pressure, in addition to the safety of the medication itself, but also the effectiveness of the medication for blood pressure regulation. How to confirm the effectiveness and do a regular blood pressure measurement is very important. It is recommended that all hypertensive patients should prepare a blood pressure monitor and learn the correct way to measure blood pressure. Self-test blood pressure at home and do a good job of blood pressure monitoring are more important for ensuring the safety of antihypertensive drugs than the measurement in the office.

Regular monitoring of blood pressure can not only understand the control of blood pressure and whether the blood pressure has been effectively controlled, but also monitor the risk of hypotension, and timely detect excessive blood pressure, or orthostatic hypotension, postprandial hypotension and other related problems, blood pressure The control of blood pressure must not only meet the standard, but also be stable, reducing the volatility of blood pressure is as important as controlling the blood pressure strictly to the standard. To understand the regularity of blood pressure fluctuations and blood pressure control, it is particularly important to measure blood pressure regularly.

For friends who are taking antihypertensive drugs for the first time, you may wish to measure their blood pressure at different time points every day to understand the antihypertensive effect and the stability of blood pressure control after taking the drug. For those who have been taking antihypertensive drugs for a long time and have relatively stable blood pressure control, also It is recommended to monitor blood pressure 1 to 2 times a week. When there is any physical discomfort that may be related to the increase or decrease of blood pressure, blood pressure should be measured in time to understand the specific situation of blood pressure. In addition, for some elderly people with large pressure differences Friends, when the seasons alternate between hot and cold, it is also necessary to monitor blood pressure in time, and adjust the medication regimen in light of changes in blood pressure.

Pay attention to maintaining healthy living habits and assist in regulating hypertension

Good conditioning intervention in life is the basis for controlling blood pressure and reducing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health. If you only rely on taking medicine to regulate and control blood pressure, it is like walking on one leg, and blood pressure often cannot be controlled.

There are three main aspects to make a good conditioning in life:

The first is diet. High-salt diet, long-term high-calorie, high-fat and high-sugar intake will affect the stability of blood pressure. Pay attention to maintaining healthy eating habits, reasonable salt control, moderate drinking, and ensuring balanced nutritional intake. Next, reducing the impact of excess energy intake is a good way of dietary conditioning. We have talked a lot about specific dietary recommendations, so I won’t repeat them here.

The second point to emphasize is sports. Exercise is an important aspect of strengthening blood pressure control. Reasonable adherence to moderate-intensity exercise can not only help stabilize blood pressure control, but also enhance heart function and reduce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risks. Hypertensive patients want to stabilize their blood pressure and insist on exercise.

The third point to emphasize is mentality. Many friends do not pay attention to the influence of mental state on blood pressure, but in fact, bad emotions such as rage, anxiety, depression, nervousness will affect our blood pressure state, and even make the effect of antihypertensive drugs greatly compromised, and want to control blood pressure smoothly. It is also very important to maintain a stable, optimistic and positive attitude towards life.

Only by conditioning a healthy lifestyle can we better ensure the efficacy and safety of antihypertensive drugs. By regulating a healthy lifestyle, blood pressure control can be strengthened, and the dosage and types of antihypertensive drugs can be minimized. Thereby reducing the risk of adverse drug reactions.

In summary, for friends who need to take antihypertensive drugs for a long time to control blood pressure, if you want to ensure the safety of the medication, one must pay attention to the safety of the drug itself during the medication process, and secondly, pay attention to the blood pressure of hypertensive patients during the medication process. The safety of changing circumstances, we want to ensure the safety of medication, maintain healthy and good habits, and be able to adhere to it for a long time, in order to fully guarantee the safety of our medication.