Hypertensive disease: treatment

Treatment of hypertension( hypertension, essential hypertension, primary arterial) directly depends on the severity of the patient's condition and stage of the disease. Every patient with hypertensive illness should know that no brilliant doctor and no modern medications can cope with hypertension without his active participation.

Control of essential hypertension without the use of medications

First, it is necessary to reduce the neuropsychic stress. Reducing nerve tension can prevent the progression of hypertension. Moreover, to reduce neuropsychic stresses best of all in a natural way, for example, physical activity. However, patients suffering from this disease should remember that not all physical load is useful. Patients with hypertension should not significantly increase the physical load, it should be moderate and deliver only positive emotions. Better, of course, that physical exertion combined with fresh air. In winter, you can go skiing, and in summer you can work in the garden, quietly and long walk in the park area.

The correct mode of rest and work

To treat hypertension was effective, the patient needs the correct mode of rest and work. Sleep patient should at least 8-10 hours a day, with no overvoltage. If relatives of the patient with hypertension create a friendly, quiet atmosphere in the family, they will help him to fight the disease. Unfortunately, quite often relatives understand it, being already at a bed of the seriously ill close person!

Compliance of the salt-free diet

A salt-free diet is an important method of fighting this disease, besides it is available to every patient. Patients with hypertension should partially or completely exclude from their diet salty foods. And this is not a temporary measure, but a permanent one. Constantly observing such a diet can normalize blood pressure and prevent its further increase. Chronic increase in blood pressure directly depends on the fact that the kidneys have ceased to normally excrete sodium chloride from the body( hydrochloric sodium).After all, it is in the kidneys that structures are assembled that contribute to a constant increase in blood pressure under certain conditions.

Drugs in the fight against hypertension

Usually, the patient is prescribed funds that reduce blood pressure - antihypertensive drugs. And this is understandable, because the main goal of treatment is to maintain blood pressure at the best level for the patient. The drug that best suits the patient, selects a cardiologist, using certain criteria: the age of the patient;Concomitant complications from the cardiovascular system( heart rhythm disturbances, angina pectoris or heart failure);Violations of other organs( diabetes, obesity, bronchospasm).

In case of essential hypertension, combined therapy is most often used, that is, the patient is prescribed more than one medicine, and immediately 2 or 3.

Combination therapy has its advantages - thus, a cardiologist with drugs can immediately affect different mechanisms of development in a patient with arterial hypertension. In addition, combined therapy will allow the cardiologist to prescribe drugs in small doses, which significantly reduces the risk of side effects. Because of the high risk of side effects of antihypertensive drugs, patients with arterial hypertension are strictly forbidden to prescribe medicines themselves, and independently change the dosage of drugs.

Complex treatment of

Treatment of arterial hypertension must necessarily be complex. This means that in addition to drug therapy, the patient should be provided with optimal conditions for both rest and work. For more effective treatment of hypertension it is very important to identify and reduce the risk factors that cause an increase in blood pressure.