Hypertension is one of the most high-incidence chronic diseases in China, and the total number of patients has reached nearly 300 million people! The so-called hypertension is actually a disease with abnormally elevated arterial blood pressure as the main symptom.
However, the purpose of its treatment is not only to stabilize blood pressure control, but also to avoid complications caused by high blood pressure.
In clinical view, long-term hypertension can cause irreversible damage to multiple target organs of the body, including the brain and heart, kidneys, etc.!
Hypertension is the most important risk factor for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease. Therefore, after suffering from high blood pressure, many people will inexplicably fall into a panic mentality and want to get rid of the torture of this disease as soon as possible.
Because of this, there are many rumors and rumors about high blood pressure in life, and even many people believe in rumors!
For example, the following are widely circulated rumors:
1, food can lower blood pressure
Indeed, there are many patients with high blood pressure after diagnosis, and doctors will recommend that patients adjust from their diet first to reduce the intake of greasy foods and high-salt foods.
It is also true that some foods contain trace amounts of blood pressure-lowering ingredients. However, if a certain food can play a role in lowering blood pressure, it is completely nonsense.
Because the active ingredients contained in food are minimal, they cannot be compared with drugs at all, and no food can replace antihypertensive drugs;
2. Antihypertensive drugs are dependent
Many people mistakenly believe that the increase in blood pressure after stopping taking antihypertensive drugs is that antihypertensive drugs have caused dependence on the human body.
As everyone knows, we have all entered a medication misunderstanding, the effect of antihypertensive drugs is to reduce blood pressure, its efficacy is not long-term or lifelong, each antihypertensive drug has its half-life.
After stopping the drug and the effect disappears, the blood pressure will rise again, which is not the dependence caused by antihypertensive drugs, but the need for antihypertensive drugs to suppress it.
It should be known that after stopping the drug, the patient will not have any withdrawal reaction, so it also does not have any dependence and addictiveness;
3. Hypertension can be cured
This is actually an absolutist thesis, and it is a very wrong view, although some patients with secondary hypertension and simple diastolic hypertension may achieve clinical cure after receiving treatment.
However, the vast majority of patients with essential hypertension cannot be cured, and it is a lifelong disease. Any drug, health care products, health products in the name of being able to cure high blood pressure, it is either a liar or a fool;
4. Blood pressure is stable and does not need to be tested
Many patients believe that antihypertensive drugs can play a role in lowering blood pressure, and do not need to monitor blood pressure regularly and regularly.
As everyone knows, this is also a very wrong concept, because the change of human blood pressure is affected by multiple factors, and it is impossible to judge by one alone.
Moreover, even if some patients take a blood pressure medication, blood pressure is difficult to stabilize, and even requires a combination of drugs to effectively control.
The purpose of monitoring blood pressure is to observe changes in blood pressure, judge the effect of the drug, and see if the dosage needs to be adjusted.
Finally, we should remind everyone that the harm of essential hypertension is extremely great, and there is no good cure in the clinic, and patients can only rely on long-term medication to control the development of the disease.
Therefore, after the diagnosis of the disease and the doctor recommends medication treatment, the patient should have excellent medication compliance, do not blindly increase or decrease the dosage of medication, and cannot change antihypertensive drugs at will.