I exercise and eat right  but my doctor told me my blood pressure is slightly high,what should i do ?
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High Blood Pressure treatment\nFirst look at the reasons for having a high blood pressure. Once you identify the reasons for your elevated blood pressure, try to eliminate them.\nIn general, switching over to a healthier lifestyle can control the high blood pressure. Follow the following recommendations to keep your blood pressure at healthier levels without the need for medication:\nRemove your cause of mental tension or stress or worries. If the reason is your office, discuss the problem with your colleagues and seniors. Don't keep the problem with you. Mental tensions can often be reduced by a brisk walk, laugh loudly and relaxation or meditation. In fact, if you daily practice meditation, you can control your blood pressure for ever.\nMaintain your weight. Exercise more often. Since excess body fat is a primary risk factor in hypertension, it is important to maintain a healthy weight.\nBe physically active. Brisk walking, bicycling, raking leaves, and gardening are the best exercises.\nFollow a low fat diet. Eliminate cholesterol in your diet.\nEliminate salt from your diet. Look at the salt content of tinned foods, snacks, potato chips, French fries, diet soft drinks, sauces, etc. These are high in salt, don't eat them. Do not eat foods that contain soda, sodium, Na, monosodium glutamate, baking soda and preservatives. Read the food labels carefully. With herbs, spices, garlic and onions, you can make your food tasty without salt.\nRestrict consumption of refined sugars. Read the lables and note different names of sugars.\nA high fiber diet is recommended.\nIncrease intake of potassium, magnesium, calcium and vitamin C. Potassium rich foods include banana, orange, tangerine, beans, dried peas,potatoes, etc.\nMagnesium rich foods include almonds, cashews, pecans, rice, banana, potatoes, kidney beans, oat bran, peas, soy, wheat germ, etc.\nCalcium rich foods include low fat dairy foods, nuts, watercress, kale, broccoli, turnip greens, collard greens, mustard greens, etc.\nGarlic helps reduce blood pressure and cholesterol.
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eliminate salt from your diet.  also eliminate stress from your life and try to get more exercise.
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Eat more frequently but in smaller portions. Of course, exercise as well. See your doctor for advice.
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To reduce hypertension, my doctor recommended losing weight, eliminating caffeine (I now drink mostly decaf coffee and tea), reducing my sodium intake (use reduced sodium or "lite salt" products) and doing exercise (brisk walking was recommended), to bring down my high blood pressure.  \n\nMake sure you drink the recommended amount of water per day to flush excess sodium out of your system.  Any relaxing activity that helps you, like meditation, is good. \n\nStaying away from too much sugar and chocolate is good too.  Also, stay away from licorice.  It has something that increases blood pressure. Also, some herbal teas, like green tea, have lots of caffeine - as do many sodas, like Coke or Pepsi. Read the labels. Get the decaf version. \n\nI read that B vitamins are essential if you are under stress, so you might try a B-complex in addition to your daily multivitamin. \n\nIf nothing works and your pressure is still way above the normal range for your age - as it was with me - then your doctor must prescribe medication that fits the kind of high blood pressure you have.  There are several kinds - beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, etc. It depends if it's the systolic or diastolic or both that are high.  My high blood pressure medication treats both since both readings are high.   \n\nMy doctor also recommends the 81mg daily aspirin therapy for me. I wouldn't do this unless prescribed since aspirin irritates the stomach and some people have had ulcers and digestive irritation as a result.\n\nYour doctor may have more suggestions for lowering your blood pressure before prescribing drugs. I would ask.
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Lose Weight\n\nPeople who are overweight are 2 to 6 times more likely to develop high blood pressure, and the heavier you are, the worse your blood pressure is likely to be, so the most important high blood pressure treatment you can practice is to maintain the ideal weight for your body.\n\nTomato\n\nA diet rich with tomatoes is an excellent high blood pressure treatment because tomatoes contain high amounts of gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA), which can help reduce blood pressure. In addition, tomatoes also contain six other ingredients that have the same effect.\n\nCalcium\n\nTo significantly reduce high blood pressure, take 1000 mg of calcium per day.\n\nSalt\n\nA very simple high blood pressure treatment consists of just reducing your intake of sodium, try to stay under 2400 mg per day. Sodium causes your body to retain water, and this in turn increases your blood volume, therefore raising blood pressure.\n\nAlso, add salt at the table instead of cooking with salt. When cooking, foods absorb a lot of salt, which reduces the flavor of the food, which leads to the need to add additional salt at the table to remedy the blandness.\n\nCelery\n\nStudies have shown that celery is an effective high blood pressure treatment, and that eating as few as 5 celery stalks per day can lower blood pressure.\n\nPotassium\n\nThe more potassium you take, the more your sodium levels decline, which of course results in a reduction of blood pressure. Take the recommended dosage of 3500 mg per day.\n\nCalcium And Magnesium\n\nAlthough neither of these are a high blood pressure treatment, your blood pressure may begin to rise when you have a calcium and magnesium deficiency. Try to get about 1000 mg of calcium per day and about 400 mg of magnesium per day.\n\nBroccoli\n\nBroccoli contains six different chemicals that can help to reduce high blood pressure.\n\nCarrots\n\nCarrots contains eight different chemicals that can help to reduce high blood pressure.\n\nGarlic\n\nGarlic is known to be a very good high blood pressure treatment. Add minced garlic cloves to your food whenever possible, or alternatively, you can take 600 mg garlic oil capsules 5 times per day. Look for capsules that provide 8,000 micrograms of allicin potential daily.\n\nExercise\n\nStudies show that exercising 30 minutes per day, 3 to 5 times per week, can lower blood pressure by 5 to 10 percent.\n\nReishi\n\nReishi is a proven high blood pressure treatment. Take in capsule form, 3,000 mg per day.\n\nHawthorn\n\nTake about 1 pound of hawthorn berries and remove the seeds. Soak the berries overnight in about 2 1/2 quarts of water. The next day, bring the mixture to a boil for about 10 minutes. Let it cool, strain, and drink 2 to 3 cups per day.\n\nThis herbal high blood pressure treatment can also be taken as a tea. Mix 1 teaspoon of dried hawthorn with 1 cup of boiling water. Strain and drink 2 cups per day.\n\nAnd, as an alternative, you can also take hawthorn in capsule form. Take two 500 mg capsules or 1 teaspoon of tincture 3 times per day.\n\nCoenzyme Q10\n\nCoenzyme Q10 is known to enhance energy to the heart muscles, helping them to pump blood more efficently. This results in lower blood pressure.\n\nSmoking\n\nEvery time you light one up, your blood pressure rises significantly and stays high for a couple of hours.\n\nMeadowsweet\n\nMeadowsweet is very high in iron and magnesium, making it a good high blood pressure treatment as well as being beneficial for all blood disorders. Mix 2 tablespoons of meadowsweet into 1 1/2 cups of boiling water. Let the mixture stand for about 10 minutes. Strain and drink 3 times per day.\n\nLemon\n\nSqueeze the juice from 1 lemon into a glass of warm water. Add 1 tablespoon of honey, mix and drink daily.\n\nSaffron\n\nThis herbal high blood pressure treatment may be expensive, but it is known to be very effective in lowering blood pressure because it contains the chemical called crocetin. Use saffron while cooking or use it as a tea.\n\n
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Your blood pressure, pulse and weight sound o.k., but I think you should go and see your doctor just to make sure.\n\nHave you had any blood sugar problems previously?  What is your hemoglobin levels like now?  Did you feel any better after you ate?
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Drink lots of water, stay away from salt and put your feet up.\nIf it gets too bad see your Doctor. After all my test, my Doctor said I was fine just put your feet up!
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Exercise, eat a healthier diet, but make sure your body is handling the change okay.
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I would have your Dr. check the pulse in your leg to find out if, in fact, your blood pressure in your leg is functioning well. If you have been off your feet for quite a bit, inadequate exercise or as simple as changing your shoes to summer shoes with a different height. You didn't mention if you were diabetic or if you had any other conditions such as high cholesterol or blood pressure. In any event, start out with your Dr. checking your leg pulse and there are more sophisticated tests from there.   Best of Luck!
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this i beleive is due to blood pressure that can come on suddely with physical activity, you really should have your blood pressur checked  because high blood pressur can have a bad toll on your heart
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Physical exertion raises blood pressure, but if your bp has been normal, and returns to normal quickly after you return to rest you have nothing to worry about. If your resting bp is also high, then you have medical hypertension. In your case you sound like a healthy person, whose bp simply elevated to match your exertion. Any time you are physically active, your blood pressure should elevate to provide the needed oxygen, nutrients to the muscles. The muscles themselves help to increase circulation, thereby raising bp, by compressing veins during contraction, which forces the blood to return to the heart at a higher rate. Remember to get plenty of exercise, eat right, and have regular physicals......... Good luck, and I hope you remain healthy in the future.
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Hypertension means blood pressure is high. That means it is more than the norms  for a person of a particular age.\n\nYou have to measure the BP(blood pressure) for a week or more to see whether it is really high and not temperory one.\nReduction in salt intake would dramatically bring down the high BP. Regular exercise and walking helps to cotrol. But it needs medication if it is beyond certain limits. \nAlso an ECG is taken to see whether the heart valves functioning are ok.\nOnce you start medicines you cfant stop it without clearance by doctor. Normally dosage may be reduced but medicine would be continued.\nSELF MEDICATION NOT POSSIBLE.
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sugar should be between 50 and 60, BP is better around 110/80, but my dr. wants mine at 110/70 because High BP killed my dad at age 36 and runs in the family on my father's side, so does diabetes. My cholesterol was 307, very dangerous, was put on Vytorin 10/80 mg. a yr. ago and it is 168 now which is very good. Losing weight drops both BP and cholesterol. Eat more fiber, fruits veggies, less red meat. Red meat is "killing our colons". Of course if your blood pressure is high and you have any heart problems, exercise slowly, nothing too strenuous. Walking is good, swimming is excellent and causes very little stress on our body. any other questions can be found online under medical terminologies or PDR book (Physicians Desk Reference.) Good luck. Also, Fish Oil capsules 1000 mgs twice a day is helping to lower my cholesterol.
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Take your High Blood Pressure SERIOUSLY!  I do not/did not have High Blood Pressure and still had a heart attack at 36!\n\nHigh blood pressure is an issue because it effects MANY things in the body.. it puts stress on your blood vessels and your lungs, kidneys etc.. \n\nKeep it under control and follow the advice of your doctors about diet, exercise and lifestyle choices.
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Go see a Dr, I also have high blood pressure and hypertension, I also take atentonol, but have to take another blood pressure med with it. Just a suggestion, every ones different , but if your blood pressure is that high while resting you may need a different med or additional meds, seek medical help
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Head for a doctor! That can be several things two of which you can head off, one which could worsen! Blood pressure or diabetics. ASAP get your self to a doctor.
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This depends on the individual. Many do not prescribe medication at all for a systolic this low. As far as high blood pressure goes, this isn't terribly high. Many prescribe diet and exercise alone.