Patients with essential hypertension basically need lifelong medication. The etiology of hypertension is complex, and it is not completely clear, so it can not be cured. We can only "suit the remedy to the case" and take antihypertensive drugs for treatment.
Some friends think that after taking the medicine for a period of time, my blood pressure has dropped. Would my high blood pressure be better and I don't have to take the medicine again? This idea is wrong. The blood pressure is controlled, which shows that the type and dosage of drugs taken now are more appropriate, rather than the treatment of hypertension. Everyone's situation is different, and the medication methods are also different. After the blood pressure is balanced to a stage, the dosage and times of medication can be changed, but the principle of lifelong medication remains the same.
But there is a kind of fruit that must not be eaten with antihypertensive medicine! That's grapefruit. In the fruit of grapefruit, there is a chemical substance called furan coumarin. This substance will reduce the activity of some enzymes in the liver, resulting in the decline of human body's metabolic ability to drugs. The drugs will enter the circulatory system with multiple power, and the effect is equivalent to overdose. Taking antihypertensive drugs and grapefruit at the same time may lead to hypotension, panic, dizziness and other symptoms, and even myocardial infarction.