Can hypertensive antihypertensive drugs be stopped for a period of time?
Antihypertensive drugs play a very important role in the treatment of hypertension. It is very important to control blood pressure safely for a long time. Generally speaking, once taking antihypertensive drugs, you should take them on time and do not eat intermittently, so as not to cause unstable blood pressure, which is not conducive to disease control, and even lead to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents in serious cases. Of course, there are no definite rules in the world. For some patients with hypertension under special circumstances, antihypertensive drugs can be stopped sometimes, but it is necessary to make a decision after evaluation by professional doctors.
The duration of our commonly used antihypertensive drugs ranges from a few hours to dozens of hours, but the longest is no more than one day. However, the blood pressure of patients with hypertension continues to rise, so they need to take it every day to safely control their blood pressure and reduce the occurrence of complications.
With regard to newly diagnosed patients with essential hypertension (especially young people with a strong mood), assuming that the blood pressure level is not high, and there are no underlying diseases such as diabetes and other cardiovascular risk factors, they can control their blood pressure level through lifestyle intervention and temporarily stop the use of antihypertensive drugs. However, some patients have elevated blood pressure due to clear diseases and other factors. After actively improving the treatment of basic diseases, their blood pressure can often recover normally or take medicine intermittently. At the same time, for some patients with cardiac insufficiency (especially the elderly), blood pressure tends to drop and even hypotension. At this time, the drug should be stopped.
Generally speaking, most patients with hypertension need to take antihypertensive drugs for a long time to stabilize their condition and reduce the incidence of complications. Patients with hypertension should also pay attention to low salt diet, quit smoking and limit alcohol, exercise properly, control weight, work according to rules, and adhere to a good attitude. We should pay attention to monitoring blood pressure changes, timely review, safely control blood pressure, and reduce the occurrence of complications of heart, brain, kidney and other organs.