If you have reason to be concerned about your blood pressure, you should begin monitoring it yourself at home. High blood pressure or hypertension is known as ‘The Silent Killer’ because you cannot know whether you have it unless you measure it. You cannot guess or just feel it. First of all, you should talk to your doctor and he will give you some figures, then you can buy a blood pressure monitor and keep an eye on your condition.
If you are suffering from high blood pressure, otherwise known as hypertension, and you failed to manage it by introducing lifestyle alterations, then you will almost certainly be taking blood pressure medication. This medicine is important to keep the ‘Silent Killer’ at bay. Therefore, it is equally vital to take the tablets on a regular basis, because otherwise your blood pressure will begin to increase fairly rapidly even within twenty-four hours of missing taking the blood pressure medication.
If you want to check your blood pressure at home, you will need a blood pressure monitor. These monitors are not necessarily very expensive but are within the budget of most households. There are basically two sorts of home monitor: aneroid and digital.
If you are concerned about your blood pressure getting too high, you will almost certainly go to your physician to seek advice. Your doctor will invariably want you to make some lifestyle changes or / and take medication if this does not have an effect. Making lifestyle alterations is the first tactic, but it does not always work. It normally does, but just not always.
It appears that everybody over the age of around forty is having problems with their blood pressure. There is such a thing as having low blood pressure but the difficulty sweeping Western society for the last twenty-five to thirty years is high blood pressure, which is also called hypertension in medical jargon.
