The treatment for lowering blood pressure is usually recommended by physicians for patients with a blood pressure of above 160/95mm Hg. For those with a blood pressure immediately below these values, the doctor takes into account age, sex, or other individual factors of the patients before prescribing the treatment.
The first kind of treatment recommended by all the doctors will be a change in your lifestyle.
The first important change will be to stop smoking. Second is the moderation of drinking, as the consumption of alcohol increases the blood pressure.
Another good point in lowering blood pressure is getting the correct nourishment like choosing food low in salts and sodium, and consuming a lot of seaweeds that will dissolve the ‘fatty build-ups’ from the blood vessels.
The final tip regarding the natural way to lower blood pressure will be working out; you need to engage in light exercises like walking, swimming, or running for about 30 minutes per day.
But this is not always showing results. So, then will begin a medical treatment to lower the blood pressure.
The first drugs prescribed are diuretics and beta-blockers. These two represent the standard medical treatment for lowering blood pressure (excluding complicating problems like heart disease).
Diuretics are used for increasing the elimination of salt and water from the organism, lowering the blood volume, and also lowering the blood pressure. As for the beta-blockers, they are used for reducing the amount of blood that the heart is pumping.
The so-called second-line treatment is used only when the previous one is ineffective or the patient suffers from other medical problems. There is a list of drugs that are used in severe medical treatment for lowering blood pressure, which include:
Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors: these are stopping the production of a hormone which increases blood pressure called angiotensin.
Calcium-channel blockers: these are lowering blood pressure by relaxing the vessels so the blood will flow more easily through them.
Vasodilators: these are relaxing the muscles of peripheral arteries, reducing the resistance to the blood flow, and therefore are lowering the blood pressure.
The last type of drugs, the most powerful of them all, are centrally acting drugs. This kind of drugs block the transmission between the nerve impulses and the autonomic nervous system, the system that controls the involuntary actions of the heart and blood vessels.
