What should I do to lower high blood pressure?

Question

I need some opinions, and some healthy foods used to calm high blood pressure. Please post an opinion!

Answer 1

Lower your high blood pressure.

If you have high blood pressure, you may be able to lower or keep your high blood pressure down. Practice these steps.

-Maintain a healthy weight.
-Be more active every day.
-Eat fewer foods high in salt and sodium.
-Cut back on alcoholic beverages.

You may also need medicine to lower your high blood pressure. Tell your doctor about any medicine you are already taking.

Follow these tips if you take medicine:

- Take your medicine the way your doctor tells you. To help you remember, plan to take your medicine at the same time every day.
- Tell the doctor right away if the medicine makes you feel strange or sick. The doctor may make changes in your medicine.
- Make sure you don¹t miss any days. Refill your prescription before you use up your medicine.
- Have your blood pressure checked often to be sure your medicine is working the way you and your doctor planned.
- Don¹t stop taking your medicine if your blood pressure is okay--that means the medicine is working.-

Answer 2

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 3

Cut out the salt, reduce your red meat intake, increase foods that are high in potassium, magnesium and fiber; maintain a healthy body weight. Stay away from Advil, Motrin, Aleve. These are NSAIDs, and they appear to raise blood pressure. I could type out a long list of foods here for you, but I'll post some links I found instead. I had the same question after my heart attack seven years ago. I have to take medicine for mine (only as a precautionary measure) even though before my heart attack my pressure was low. You can do it through diet and exercise. Make an appointment with your doctor and discuss it with him/her.

http://www.gicare.com/pated/edtot43.htm

http://www.pamf.org/patients/tipsbp.html

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/lower-high-bloodpressure/

Answer 4

Limit red meat salt & alchol intake, take regular gentle excersise and get a blood presure monitor for you to keep track daily , monitor when high and try and determine if anything has triggered it! otherwise see your doctor for more advice and medication as prolonged high blood pressure can have effects on your health! good luck!

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Doctors recommend weight loss and regular exercise as the first steps in treating mild to moderate hypertension. These steps are highly effective in reducing blood pressure, although most patients with moderate or severe hypertension end up requiring indefinite drug therapy to bring their blood pressure down to a safe level. Discontinuing smoking does not directly reduce blood pressure, but is very important for people with hypertension because it reduces the risk of many dangerous outcomes of hypertension, such as stroke and heart attack. An increase in daily calcium intake has also been shown to be highly effective in reducing blood pressure.

Mild hypertension is usually treated by diet, exercise and improved physical fitness. A diet rich in fruits and vegetables and low fat or fat-free dairy foods and moderate or low in sodium lowers blood pressure in people with hypertension. This diet is known as the DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension), and is based on National Institutes of Health sponsored research. Dietary sodium (salt) may worsen hypertension in some people and reducing salt intake decreases blood pressure in a third of people. Many people choose to use a salt substitute to reduce their salt intake. Regular mild exercise improves blood flow, and helps to lower blood pressure. In addition, fruits, vegetables, and nuts have the added benefit of increasing dietary potassium, which offsets the effect of sodium and acts on the kidney to decrease blood pressure.
Commonly used drugs include:

*ACE inhibitors such as captopril, enalapril, fosinopril (Monopril), lisinopril (Zestril), quinapril, ramipril (Altace)
*Angiotensin II receptor antagonists: eg, telmisartan (Micardis, Pritor), irbesartan (Avapro), losartan (Cozaar), valsartan (Diovan), candesartan (Atacand)
*Alpha blockers such as doxazosin, prazosin, or terazosin
*Beta blockers such as atenolol, labetalol, metoprolol (Lopressor, Toprol-XL), propranolol.
*Calcium channel blockers such as amlodipine (Norvasc), diltiazem, verapamil
*Direct renin inhibitors such as aliskiren (Tekturna)
*Diuretics: eg, bendroflumethiazide, chlortalidone, hydrochlorothiazide (also called HCTZ)
*Combination products (which usually contain HCTZ and one other drug)

Answer 7

alcohol and salt are forbidden for you and the most important is to exercise everyday just for 10 minutes!!
do it until now and you'll get rid of high blood pressure
goodluck.

Answer 8

keep taking any medications your doctor prescribed. cut back on your salt intake. find other spices to use instead of salt.

and by salt, i'm not meaning just table salt. i mean all salt. cut back as much as possible. you do need a little, but if you read the labels of your food, you'll see you can get almost a whole days worth in just one can of store bought soup!

Answer 9

Decrease your salt intake, exercise more, and cut out salty foods as well, such as crisps, processed meats like lunch meats, and foods that contain nitrates, like sausages, lunch meats, ham, etc. You may also need some form of medication.

Answer 10

BEST ONES I KNOW,NO SALT,COLAS ARE LOADED,FAST FOOD IS HORRIBLE, I EAT I SELDOM TO NOT AT ALL,OR I CRAVE IT.ALSO,READ ALL PKG. SODIUM IS HIDDEN IN SO MANY THINGS,U WILL BE SHOCKED.TAKE MEDS.RIGHT,STRESS CAUSES MINE TO SKY ROCKET,CONTROL IT,BY DR,OR U.MOST OF ALL TAKE BLOOD PRESSURE SERIOUS,IT CAN CAUSE ALOT OF VERY BAD COMPLICATIONS,MR.HAPPY EVEN GETS VERY SAD!!,DIZZY AND PLAIN OUT ILL.CHECK IT OFTEN,ALMOST AND HEALTH DEPT. DR.HOSP. CHECKS FOR FREE,DEPT. STORES HAVE CHEAP EASY DEVICES,DO IT YOURSELF,MAKE A CHART,SEE WHAT KICKS YOURS OFF INTO SPACE,AND WORK ON THAT AREA MOST.