How to Control Blood Pressure and Prevent Hypertension



How to control blood pressure

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Many people panic when a doctor diagnoses them with high blood pressure. Although this condition is fatal and is known as the ‘silent killer’, high blood pressure can be controlled when detected early.

With the help of your doctor and some work, you can lead a life without having to worry about prolonged high blood pressure. All you need to do is to learn how to control blood pressure levels by making sure it won’t go too high or too low.


For people who experience high blood pressure for the first time, doctors would recommend some lifestyle changes that could help reduce blood pressure quickly while ensuring no reoccurrence would take place.

How to Control Blood Pressure without Medication?

Most of the time, doctors would recommend you to exercise regularly, eat less (if you’re overweight), choose healthy foods and cut down foods that are known to increase the risk of high blood pressure.

Some of the simple ways to reduce and prevent high blood pressure include reducing salt or sodium intake, limiting alcohol consumption, quitting a smoking habit, managing stress properly and adding more potassium into your diet.

Some doctors even recommend going to a massage therapist every once in a while to ensure you reduce stress.

Sometimes, your blood pressure may be dangerously high that your doctor may prescribe medications to reduce your blood pressure quickly. When this is the case, you may be given several medications to try which one would help you best or take a combination of them to reduce blood pressure.

Fortunately, medications for high blood pressure are available in various forms, such as diuretics, ACE inhibitors, calcium channel blockers, beta-blockers, nervous system inhibitors, alpha-beta blockers, alpha-blockers, vasodilators and angiotensin antagonistic.

Although these medications help in reducing high blood pressure, it does not guarantee that you would not experience hypertension again.

The secret “how to control blood pressure” lies in your ability to continue leading a healthy life. After the medications have helped you reduce high blood pressure, you would be in charge of making the necessary changes in your life to ensure you would not suffer from high blood pressure in the future.

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