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High blood pressure is a dangerous disease, patients must use antihypertensive drugs daily to treat. Do you have to take blood pressure medication for the rest of your life?
1. Effects of blood pressure medication
Antihypertensive drugs work to keep blood pressure at a stable level because high blood pressure is a silent killer - just a little carelessness and subjectivity, the patient is very susceptible to stroke, heart failure due to uncontrolled blood pressure.
Complications of hypertension can take a patient's life very easily and quickly: myocardial infarction, heart failure; CKD ; vision loss leading to blindness, cerebral bleeding or cerebral vascular occlusion,...
Currently, there are many blood pressure drugs on the market such as Coversyl 5mg or Amlor,... Which drugs are used to treat blood pressure? Treatment must follow the instructions and prescriptions of the doctor.
Thuốc huyết áp Coversyl 5mg
2. Do antihypertensive drugs have to be taken every day?
Blood pressure medicine must be taken for life, but the dosage depends on the doctor's prescription. The goal of treating high blood pressure is to prevent and prevent dangerous complications of the disease. Moreover, maintaining the medication is to prevent relapse and minimize the bad progression of the disease.
Therefore, we can affirm that: antihypertensive drugs need to be taken daily and for life, that is, the patient must take the drug as prescribed by a specialist for the rest of his life and must go to the hospital. Check your health by appointment so that your doctor can follow up and make timely drug adjustments to increase the most optimal healing effect.
In fact, many patients, after being treated for high blood pressure for a while, feel relatively stable health, then stop the drug. The use of such drugs is really dangerous because, it not only does not help patients avoid complications from hypertension, but also causes great disadvantages in treatment.
Patients need to strictly follow the medication schedule because blood pressure medication is considered a "gatekeeper" - helping to keep the patient's blood pressure in a stable state. You should not because your blood pressure is already normal, or because you are lazy, accidentally or intentionally quit smoking. Until now, in hospitals, cases of patients being hospitalized urgently due to complications such as stroke, heart failure due to spike in blood pressure are quite a lot. Therefore, as mentioned above - taking blood pressure medication is a lifelong thing if you already have the disease.
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3. Notes to increase the effectiveness of hypertension treatment
For the most effective treatment of hypertension, patients, in addition to complying with the time and dose of medication, must also pay attention to the following:
Do not drink a lot of alcohol; Quit smoking; Stay up late, shower late; Or nervous tension; Lazy exercise, exercise; Eating lack of nutritional balance. In short, treating high blood pressure is very important. In most cases, antihypertensive drugs need to be taken daily and for life. Patients can completely control their health status if they actively treat their diseases and take their own health seriously.
Reference source: vnha.org
