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Blood Pressure Disorder Types:

There are 2 types of Blood Pressure Disorder Types: High and Low. High Blood Pressure is also known as Hypertension and Low Blood Pressure is known as Hypotension. These can be further categorized into different categories.

Types of Hypertension:

• White coat hypertension


• Isolated Systolic Hypertension


• Malignant Hypertension


• Primary hypertension


• Secondary hypertension


• Resistant Hypertension


• Hypertension in the lungs

Types of Hypotension:

• Postural Hypotension


• Postprandial Hypotension


• Neurally Mediated Hypotension (NMH)

Blood Pressure Medication and Medication Types

If you are suffering from High Blood Pressure Level 1( i.e BP ranging from 140/90 to 159/99 ), then your doctor might suggest you to use any of these medicines:

• Diuretics (also known as water pills)


• Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors


• Angiotensin II receptor blockers


• Beta blockers


• Calcium channel blockers


• Renin inhibitors

Low Blood Pressure (Hypotension) Medication:

• Fludrocortisone for Orthostatic Hypotension


• Midodrine (Orvaten, Proamatine) for Chronic Orthostatic Hypotension

Blood Pressure Medication Side Effects

All medicines have certain side effects but these side effects are different in different people, but if you are lucky you might have no side effect. No medicine is side-effect proof. But if you are feeling that certain medicine is causing some side effects, then you should discuss it with your doctor. Doctor might change it. Sometime over dose also cause some side effects. In some cases the medicines have no side effect but it reacts with some other medication that you are using for some other disease. So keep your doctor aware of all medicines that you are using.

A controlled diet can help a lot if a person is suffering from high blood pressure. Here we will discuss some common diet tips, diet plan and finally a good diet chart to help High Blood Pressure patients maintain a controlled blood pressure.

High Blood Pressure Diet Tips

• Make least use of salt in your diet.


• High sodium diet increase blood pressure. So not only salt but also other food materials which contain sodium should be avoided.


• Fruits should be eaten as much as you can. They are high in potassium, magnesium and fiber, which are good for blood pressure patients. Sodium is negligible in fruits.


• Legumes, nuts and seeds are also good source of magnesium.

High Blood Pressure Diet Plan

Prepare a diet plan which is low in fat and salt. Make a plan for complete week, so that the diet is rich in nutrients, vitamins and minerals.

Quantity of sodium should be 2300mg per day. But if your age is above 51 years then it should be around 1500mg per day.

Always plan food items to shop. Give time to prepare the list and then stick to that list while shopping. Sometime we shop a lot of junk food if we are shopping in an unplanned manner. Junk food is most unhealthy way of diet. A blood pressure patient should be aware of his/her diet and don’t eat junk food.

High Blood Pressure Diet Chart

Prepare a diary and make entry of your daily diet. In long run it can help you in diagnosing which food item is having bad impact on your health and then you can reduce or stop taking that particular food item.