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About 65 millions of
Americans are suffering from high blood pressure or hypertension.
Blood pressure either hypertension or hypotension will cause
complications in your body and the most vulnerable organ is the
heart. The heart is the main organ to regulate the pressure of the
blood, with its force of sending it to the arteries. Constraint or
constrict arteries will require more force of exertion by the heart
and the result will be more pressure on the walls of the blood
vessels. On the other hand expanded arteries will ensure the chance
of very less force from the heart resulting in low blood pressure.
Now, if you are suffering from high
blood pressure you need to be extra cautious at every step of your
life. A wrong step by you will compensate more than you could think
of. Let me talk about some very simple things in our life that we
rarely notice. Whenever we suffer from cold, we take less than a
minute to rush down for some kind of OTC drug.
Now if you have high blood pressure you
may risk yourself with this careless act of buying the OTC cold
medicines.
Yes, my dear friend
the American Heart Association has declared that the cold medicines
or flu medicines contain decongestants. The decongestants can act
with the blood pressure medications to pose serious threat to your
body. In their declaration of ‘cold medicine high blood pressure’
they have mentioned that the flu medicine taken without the
consultation of your doctor can be very harmful to you. The side
effects of the complications can be fatal enough to take your life.
How cold medicine high blood pressure
act?
The decongestants present in the
medicine of cold or flu interacts with the body metabolism and
increases the blood pressure to higher level. They also interfere
with the chemical nature of the blood pressure medicines and cause
toxic elements in the body. These toxics slowly accumulate and
suddenly show the symptoms.
Hence, if you are a high blood pressure
patient and is under medication, any extra medicine you take for any
cause needs supervision of your doctor.
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