How To Have Blood Pressure Monitoring

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Hypertension is a common chronic disease. Even high blood pressure is not a severe disease. If it is not controlled and treated in time, it is prone to have complications, causing harm to our body.

However, It is not enough to have proper treatment for our hypertensive patients. Also, we have to learn to self-monitor blood pressure.

It is necessary to have daily blood pressure monitoring.

In clinical treatment, for patients with hypertension, the blood pressure level and fluctuations need to be monitored in detail in daily monitoring. Moreover, the daily blood pressure level is valuable for adjusting the treatment medication and estimating the effect of high blood pressure on the heart and cerebrovascular.

How to have blood pressure monitoring

Measurement Tools

If we have to trace our blood pressure, we cannot go to the hospital daily for measurement. It is better to have a monitor at home. For home use sphygmomanometer, we have to choose the qualified one with the right size as the size of bp cuffs can affect the blood pressure reading.

Many people misunderstand digital electronic ...
... sphygmomanometers and think it is inaccurate as the results of each measurement are different. Only the blood pressure measured by the hospital is reliable. These views are wrong.

Our blood pressure fluctuates within a range under daily conditions, and the results of each measurement may be inconsistent. Many sphygmomanometers are accurate, especially those with FDA or CE approval. Even the electronic sphygmomanometer itself has an error in reading. We can measure several times, and the sphygmomanometer automatically takes the average blood pressure value to reduce the measurement error.

Measurement time

There are five critical points of blood pressure changes.

1. Just wake up in the morning, but before getting up, this time point can reflect the peak blood pressure of the day;

2. Around 10 am, it can reflect the blood pressure changes after taking medicine;

3. Around 2 pm to 3 pm, it is the rebound time of blood pressure. Because after taking pills, the blood pressure is under control in the morning, and blood pressure starts to rise in the afternoon, which often happens around 2 to 3 pm.

4. Before or after dinner, around 6 pm, it can reflect the control of blood pressure after taking antihypertensive drugs;

5. Before going to bed, around 10 to 11 in the evening. It shows the changes in blood pressure at night.

The frequency of blood pressure measurement
We mentioned 5-key times a day for blood pressure changes above. But we do not have blood pressure measurements 5 times a day. Usually, 2-3 times one day is enough for most of us.

In the initial stage of taking antihypertensive drugs, we can increase the frequency of measurements to understand the efficacy. After our blood pressure control is stable, we can reduce the measurement times. If we do not have time for pressure measurement, we can choose the 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure measurement, which is more accurate and objective.

It is vital to have blood pressure measurements daily for high blood pressure patients. When we revisit our doctor, we can show him the recorder, which is very helpful for medicine adjustment and effect assessment. It can monitor whether there is a sudden increase in blood pressure to avoid complications such as stroke.