Questions about high blood pressure?
Can someone help me with questions about high blood pressure?
Hi, I have just got diagnosed for high blood pressure and I want to know the tests I will need to have. Will I be put on any medication? If so what are possible side effects of the medicine? Will I need any blood work done? Please help me! I am very stressed about it… If you must know I am 13.
Best Answer
High blood pressure (hypertension) is abnormally high pressure in the arteries.
Approximate normal blood pressure for a 13 year old boy or girl is 101/70 mmHg.
* Often no cause for high blood pressure can be identified, but sometimes it occurs as a result of an underlying disorder of the kidneys or a hormonal disorder.
* Obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, stress, smoking, and excessive amounts of alcohol or salt in the diet all can play a role in the development of high blood pressure in people who have an inherited tendency to develop it.
* In most people, high blood pressure causes no symptoms.
* Doctors make the diagnosis after measuring blood pressure on two or more occasions.
* People are advised to lose weight, stop smoking, and decrease the amounts of salt and fats in their diets.
* Antihypertensive drugs are given.
Your doctor will look for signs of complications to your heart, kidneys, eyes, and other organs in your body.
The tests may include:
* Chem-20
* Echocardiogram
* Urinalysis
* Ultrasound of the kidneys
Adopt DASH diet. Eat a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet, which includes cottage cheese, fat-free milk, fish, vegetables, poultry, and egg whites. Use monounsaturated oils such as olive, peanut, and canola oils or polyunsaturated oils such as corn, safflower, soy, sunflower, cottonseed, and soybean oils. Avoid foods with excess fat in them such as meat (especially liver and fatty meat), egg yolks, whole milk, cream, butter, shortening, pastries, cakes, cookies, gravy, peanut butter, chocolate, olives, potato chips, coconut, cheese (other than cottage cheese), coconut oil, palm oil, and fried foods.
Approximate normal blood pressure for a 13 year old boy or girl is 101/70 mmHg.
* Often no cause for high blood pressure can be identified, but sometimes it occurs as a result of an underlying disorder of the kidneys or a hormonal disorder.
* Obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, stress, smoking, and excessive amounts of alcohol or salt in the diet all can play a role in the development of high blood pressure in people who have an inherited tendency to develop it.
* In most people, high blood pressure causes no symptoms.
* Doctors make the diagnosis after measuring blood pressure on two or more occasions.
* People are advised to lose weight, stop smoking, and decrease the amounts of salt and fats in their diets.
* Antihypertensive drugs are given.
Your doctor will look for signs of complications to your heart, kidneys, eyes, and other organs in your body.
The tests may include:
* Chem-20
* Echocardiogram
* Urinalysis
* Ultrasound of the kidneys
Adopt DASH diet. Eat a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet, which includes cottage cheese, fat-free milk, fish, vegetables, poultry, and egg whites. Use monounsaturated oils such as olive, peanut, and canola oils or polyunsaturated oils such as corn, safflower, soy, sunflower, cottonseed, and soybean oils. Avoid foods with excess fat in them such as meat (especially liver and fatty meat), egg yolks, whole milk, cream, butter, shortening, pastries, cakes, cookies, gravy, peanut butter, chocolate, olives, potato chips, coconut, cheese (other than cottage cheese), coconut oil, palm oil, and fried foods.