blood pressure-what is normal and what is too high?

Question

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i'm 29 and 5 1/2 months pregnant...and overweight..my blood pressure has never been high before but it was 140/90 and they put me on a low dosage of high blood pressure medicine...

Answer 1

To diagnose High Blood Pressure a person has to have a consistant elevated reading, this is usually done over a 3 to 4 day time period. The diastolic blood pressure (the lower number) should be below 90 and the systolic blood pressure (higher number) should be less than 140.
Pregnant weoman can get Pregnancy Induced Hypertension, their blood pressure will elevate and Doctors will start them on meds right away. You can recover from this and have normal blood pressures once the baby is born.
The best advice is to see your doctor regularly while pregnant and follow his advice.

Answer 2

120 mm Systolic Hg is normal

70 mm Hg Dialostic is normal


between 120 to 140 is considered Hyertensive boderline

Answer 3

Mine is normally 120/80. Which is just fine. Yours went up due to pregnancy and it will go back down shortly after the birth of your child. I had that happen to me, and when mine got that high, they took my baby. I was over 8 months, though.

Answer 4

normal is 120/80
but for elderly 130/90 is acceptable, more than that is high.
for younger 110/70 is consider ok

Answer 5

See Toxemia (Sp?) of Pregnancy.

Answer 6

ask doc