Therefore, once suffering from hypertension, patients need to take drugs regularly for a long time to stabilize blood pressure and avoid harming other target organs.
But drugs will have certain toxicity and side effects, so what are the side effects of commonly used antihypertensive drugs?
1, Puli antihypertensive drug
These drugs can not only lower blood pressure, but also protect kidneys, reduce proteinuria, and fight against heart remodeling and atherosclerosis. Therefore, patients with hypertension complicated with coronary heart disease, heart failure and renal insufficiency prefer this kind of drugs.
However, it should be noted that long-term use of such drugs is likely to cause vascular edema, hyperkalemia, rash and dry cough.
Especially dry cough, mainly manifested as expectorant cough and dry throat itching. If it is a mild dry cough, it generally does not need special treatment. Drink more water every day and pay more attention to rest.
If severe dry cough has affected sleep or attention, you need to stop taking medicine according to your doctor's advice, and you can switch to sartan drugs.
Hyperkalemia mainly occurs in patients with renal insufficiency and is easy to cause cardiac arrest. Therefore, it is necessary to check the blood potassium regularly during taking the medicine, and stop taking the medicine in time if it is found to be elevated.
2. antihypertensive drugs on the horizon.
These drugs are suitable for patients with hypertension complicated with cerebral infarction and myocardial infarction. The side effects of these drugs are mainly manifested as rapid heartbeat, hot flashes, hypotension, headache, dizziness, ankle edema, constipation and so on.
If you have symptoms of rapid heartbeat and palpitation after taking the medicine, you need to consider changing the medicine, and you can also combine with receptor blockers to help control the heart rate.
3. Diuretics
The medicine is affordable, has good antihypertensive effect, high cost performance and wide clinical application. It is mainly suitable for patients with hypertension complicated with heart failure or obesity, and patients with isolated systolic hypertension are also the first choice for diuretics.
However, patients with hyperuricemia and gout at the same time should not use diuretics, and blood potassium and uric acid should be monitored regularly during medication, because the drug is easy to cause hypokalemia and uric acid increase.
In clinical practice, diuretics are generally not used alone, but usually combined with antihypertensive drugs that supplement potassium to avoid hypokalemia. For example, both Pulitzer and sartan can supplement potassium.
4, sartan antihypertensive drugs
The applicable population of these drugs is basically the same as that of Puli antihypertensive drugs, and the side effects are similar, but these drugs will not cause dry cough symptoms.
5. Receptor blockers
These drugs are suitable for patients with hypertension whose heart rate is more than 80 times, patients with hypertension and hypotension, and patients with heart failure and myocardial infarction are also the first choice.
Its side effects mainly lead to general weakness, sexual dysfunction, slow heartbeat and asthma. Therefore, during taking medicine, we should always pay attention to the heart rate or pulse. If the heart rate is lower than 55 beats per minute, seek medical advice in time and readjust the dose.
There are still some patients with general weakness after taking the medicine, which is mainly related to the dosage of the medicine, so they can stop taking the medicine appropriately.
It should be noted that asthma patients should not use such drugs to avoid inducing asthma and bronchospasm.
The above are commonly used antihypertensive drugs in clinic and their side effects. Patients can choose appropriate antihypertensive drugs according to their own symptoms, and pay more attention to their own changes during the medication process.
Once these side effects occur, you should seek medical advice in time, stop taking drugs or increase or decrease the dose according to the doctor's advice, and do not change the dose at will to avoid more serious consequences.