Do you make five mistakes that hypertension patients are easy to make?

 Hypertension is a high incidence in modern times. At present, the number of hypertension patients in China has reached 200 million. Hypertension is a very important risk factor of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. After learning that they had this disease, they did not dare to slack off, so they began to seek medical treatment, treatment and even their living habits had to change with it. But in real life, people with hypertension often have a lot of misunderstandings, not only for the prevention and treatment of hypertension has no effect, and sometimes it will have adverse effects on the disease. Here is a summary, we can compare whether we have such a situation, if we have, in order to our health, we need to adjust it in time.

Common mistakes and solutions of hypertension patients

1. I like to take medicine according to the symptoms, and do not take the medicine when there is no symptom. When patients have dizziness, headache and other symptoms, they like to adjust the dosage according to the light and heavy symptoms. When the degree is light, the dosage is smaller, and when the degree is severe, the dosage is larger. After the symptoms are relieved, the drug is stopped immediately. In fact, the essence of antihypertensive drugs is not to relieve uncomfortable symptoms, but to control hypertension. Many patients with hypertension have no discomfort symptoms even though their blood pressure is very high. Therefore, the severity of symptoms may not reflect the blood pressure situation.

Solution: do not adjust medication according to symptoms. One of the reasons why hypertension is dangerous is that the patient's self symptom feeling is not consistent with the severity of the disease. Patients with hypertension should control their blood pressure no matter whether they have discomfort symptoms or not. It is unscientific to take medicine only according to the symptoms.

2. Always change treatments frequently. Many patients are eager to lower their blood pressure in a short period of time. This idea often leads to the replacement of other antihypertensive drugs when they do not see their blood pressure drop to normal level after taking some antihypertensive drugs for a few days. It's always time to stop using the medicine, but sometimes it can't bring down the blood pressure.

Solution: the treatment plan should not be changed frequently. It is a step-by-step process to reduce the blood pressure to the normal range, which needs time to achieve gradually. The way to judge whether you need to change the treatment plan is to consider how long it takes for the drug to achieve the maximum effect, and then consider a better treatment plan after a certain period of time when the drug has not been effective.

3. Take only one kind of antihypertensive drug, worry is the medicine three parts poison. Many patients feel that it is not good to eat too much. In order to avoid the side effects of drugs, it is better to increase the dosage of single drug when the curative effect is good, rather than accept the combination of two or more drugs. In fact, the antihypertensive effect of a single antihypertensive drug is limited, and if the drug dose is increased randomly, it may bring side effects to the body. Never increase the dosage of a single drug without authorization.

Solution: according to the doctor's suggestion, whether to use two or more drugs. Studies have shown that a single antihypertensive drug can only make less than one-third of patients with hypertension meet the standard, most patients need to cooperate with more than two drugs to control blood pressure. When the single drug is not good, we can not increase the dosage too much. We need to adjust and use other kinds of antihypertensive drugs in time. In this way, we can use different antihypertensive mechanisms to synergize the antihypertensive effect and offset the adverse effects of drugs. Of course, hypertension can not only rely on drug treatment, diet is also an important part of lowering blood pressure, can be said to be a "good helper" of drug treatment. In our daily life, we have a light diet, less salt and less sugar,

4. Not often monitoring blood pressure, careless. Many patients think it is OK to use antihypertensive medicine because they don't often go to the hospital to measure their blood pressure for fear of trouble. However, if the drug is not reexamined after medication, the doctor will not be able to timely understand the efficacy of the drug and the blood pressure fluctuation after taking the medicine, and can not judge whether the drug pressure control is up to the standard in time. Even some patients are still taking the original drug because of the side effects of the drug not reviewed in time.

Solutions: patients need regular monitoring of blood pressure, and hypertension is aimed at minimizing incidence rate of cardiovascular disease and death. Regular monitoring of blood pressure level and timely adjustment of medication regimen can not only make blood pressure reach the standard steadily, but also avoid the side effects of drugs, so as to improve the quality of life of patients.

5. I think it's better to take medicine than to change bad habits. After being diagnosed with hypertension, many people will only listen to the doctor's medication, but they don't pay attention to the bad lifestyle. They still eat high salt, high sugar and high fat. Even some male patients still smoke, drink and exercise less. Even if there are a lot of oral drugs, the antihypertensive effect is still not good. They often spend a lot of treatment fees to improve the condition.

Solution: correct the lifestyle immediately, because the impact of lifestyle on reducing blood pressure and cardiovascular risk is widely recognized, because it is a reasonable and effective adjuvant treatment for any patient (1. Patients with high normal blood pressure; 2. Patients who need drug treatment). It is suggested that patients with hypertension should actively improve their lifestyle, quit smoking, drink less, exercise moderately, lose weight and maintain psychological balance.