Cold is not random drug in patients with essential hypertension

Hypertensive patients in winter should pay special attention to prevent colds, because of the hypertensive population, a cold will often rest is not good, which lead to unstable blood pressure occurs; at the same time, people in the cold when the poorer health status, if not good blood pressure control, more easily induced cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage and other accidents; more important is in hypertensive patients, once the cold is not indiscriminate use of cold medications, because a lot of cold medicine ingredients can lead to abnormal blood pressure fluctuations, seriously affected the life and health of patients with hypertension.

We all know that the " drug interactions " truth, different cold medicine ingredients are different, especially the cold medicine in some of the ingredients and antihypertensive drugs in some of the ingredients in grams, so not only will not treat good cold, but led to elevated blood pressure in patients with hypertension, so, how to choose the cold medicine in patients with hypertension in the purchase? Cold medicine, in addition to note its components, also need to pay attention to their own blood pressure, according to their blood pressure levels to choose appropriate cold medicine, can not take.

Cold medicine composition mainly paracetamol ( antipyretic ), pseudoephedrine hydrochloride ( reduce the nasal mucosa hyperemia ), dextromethorphan ( antitussive ), amantadine ( ARV), chlorphenamine maleate ( antihistamine ) etc.. A variety of cold medicine besides the utility is different, also have their own side effects. Wherein, containing pseudoephedrine hydrochloride cold medicine to reduce the effect of nasal mucosa congestion, this class of drugs can reduce capillary contraction of upper respiratory tract, nasopharyngeal mucosa hyperemia, eliminate the symptoms of nasal obstruction. But at the same time, pseudoephedrine hydrochloride can also cause elevated blood pressure, and boost the lasting effect, and induce rapid heartbeat and other adverse reactions, will aggravate hypertension patients with the illness, even dangerous. So, for blood pressure slightly elevated or good control and normal cardiac function patients, in the cold when the nasal symptoms after short-term use, can contain a small amount of pseudoephedrine hydrochloride cold medicine, because of its stable blood pressure in primary hypertension effect is relatively small. If is, severe high blood pressure or blood pressure control is not desired by the patient, in the selection of cold medicine, it should try to avoid pseudoephedrine hydrochloric acid containing components of cold medicine. For such patients, nasal obstruction symptom severity, available amount of pseudoephedrine hydrochloride nasal drops nose drops. Because in the topical use of pseudoephedrine hydrochloride, effects on blood relative oral much smaller. And other cold drugs on blood pressure have little effect, can be properly applied.