Are those little blood pressure cuffs that you place around your wrist accurate?

Question

I need to buy a b/p cuff, I was just wondering if the ones you put around your wrist are acuurate.

Answer 1

By and large they are - it actually depends on the company - in case you are concerned and need to know more about hypertension - visit this website - http://ailments.in/hypertension.html

Answer 2

Don't waste your money and your time. Buy the manual cuff. The old ones. These are much more accurate.
My coworkers use those wrist BP cuffs for some of my blood pressures that I need to give my patients their meds and I always end up taking the blood pressure again with the old cuff. There is a big difference in readings. When you are giving blood pressure medicine based on a blood pressure, it is important to have a correct reading and the wrist cuffs DO NOT measure up.

Answer 3

If u have a little arm,"yes". If u have a large arm than u have to buy a large blood pressure cuff. I have a small one and a large one. Well where I'm at we use regular old blood pressure cuffs,I think the wrist one will give u a lower reading which would make it incorrect.

Answer 4

3 years ago, I was diagnosed - hypertension with a reading of 160/100. I used to feel dizzy a lot, my legs had awful cramps, and levels were very low in my potassium, causing my fingers and toes to always cramp together. One day I started to feel really faint while I was driving with my daughter in the back seat and I passed out, hitting 3 cars and ending up in a ditch. That moment,I knew I had to do something because my meds weren't working. I heard about this diet from a friend and thought I'd give it a shot. The results have been remarkable. In just 21 days, I honestly can't remember feeling this good, my blood pressure went from 175/110 to 125/70.

Answer 5

No, you can't trust them. One time mine showed my blood pressure to be close to normal, but I was feeling so bad, I went to the emergency room anyway. I took my BP again in the car before I went in, and it was a little high, but didn't show really bad. Anyway, my BP was off the charts and I almost died, because I trusted the wrist cuff for too long. I have since been told by medical professionals not to trust them.

Answer 6

they are effective -save a chart of your bp for 2 weeks & take the ends up on your physician. if the physician urged you to apply a bp cuff, ask for a prescription as your assurance business enterprise might conceal the cost.

Answer 7

Mine is, tested it against the usual doctor's office one, and the reading was the same.

Answer 8

not so sure if they are real accurate but im sure the are very close to the ones in the drs. office