About measuring blood pressure, if you want to measure blood pressure, can you take it at any time?

I remember my mom telling me that I heard the reading of the first ring, so it should be 60.

It is best to measure every morning, and you need to measure continuously for three days to see the final results.

In real life, some people pay great attention to their physical health, so they will check their health regularly. Blood pressure measurement is an essential item during the physical examination. In the process of blood pressure measurement, you can understand the changes in your blood pressure, and once you find that your blood pressure is rising or falling, you need to find out the cause in time and stabilize your blood pressure in a reasonable way.

Especially for patients with high blood pressure, it is more necessary to measure blood pressure regularly to avoid the threat of increased blood pressure to health. So, in the process of measuring blood pressure, which time period is more suitable?

1. After getting up in the morning

In general, people need to grasp the correct time period in the process of measuring blood pressure. Because people's blood pressure fluctuates during certain periods of time, the measurement results are not accurate, and it is generally best to measure blood pressure after waking up in the morning.

Because after a whole night of body metabolism, the person's blood pressure is in a stable state at this time, and the value measured by fasting blood pressure is meaningful for the diagnosis of hypertension. If your blood pressure is high when you wake up in the morning, you may have high blood pressure. Therefore, if you want to measure your blood pressure properly, you should do it in the morning after you get up.

2. Before going to bed at night

In general, it is appropriate to measure blood pressure before going to bed. Between 10 and 11 p.m., blood pressure measurements are relatively stable during this time. Because before people go to bed, their blood pressure will be relatively stable, and there will be no fluctuations in blood pressure due to mood or diet, and the blood pressure value measured during this time period will be more accurate.

If you want to know how your blood pressure is changing, it is good to measure it at night before going to bed.

3. From two to three o'clock in the afternoon

If you want to measure your blood pressure, you can do it around 2 to 3 p.m. Because many people with high blood pressure need to take antihypertensive drugs after meals, and most of them take drugs after meals around 1 to 2 o'clock. At this point, the body is affected by antihypertensive drugs that cause blood pressure to drop.

Therefore, if you want to get a more accurate blood pressure value, you should measure it between 2 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the measured blood pressure will be more accurate when it is not affected by diet or medication.

Through the above understanding, it is found that in the process of measuring blood pressure, it is necessary to grasp the correct time period, because the blood pressure measured in different time periods may have different results. In addition to paying attention to the time, people need to choose the right blood pressure monitor in the process of measuring blood pressure, while maintaining emotional stability and not being overly nervous and anxious. Of course, the steps of the operation should also be reasonable, so that the measured blood pressure will be accurate and have reference value.

It is often thought that it can be monitored 24 hours a day, but this is not the case. When monitoring blood pressure, there needs to be a fixed time, and within this fixed time, the monitoring value will be more standard. Let's take a look.

At what time of day would blood pressure monitoring be more standard?

The body's blood pressure does not remain the same for 24 hours. It usually fluctuates depending on factors such as the environment, the person's mood, etc. In general, blood pressure values are high in the morning and evening.

Therefore, in order to get an accurate blood pressure value, we should choose to monitor it in the morning after getting up. At this time, the monitored values are most accurate.

Because people's mood after getting up in the morning is relatively calm, there will not be too much mood swings, so at this time the human body is very accurate in monitoring blood pressure values, if the first time to measure blood pressure is this time period, then when measuring blood pressure in the future, we should also choose this time point, and to accurately maintain the same measurement environment, in order to observe the specific changes in their blood pressure.

So what should we pay attention to before measuring blood pressure?

1. Stand up slowly.

After a night of hibernation, when the human body just wakes up in the morning, the blood flow in the human body is relatively slow. At this time, the blood pressure will be in a relatively stable state, so once the body starts to exercise, it will accelerate the blood circulation in the body, which will affect the blood pressure and cause the blood pressure to rise.

Especially for patients with high blood pressure, they should keep a slow speed when getting up to avoid transient hypoxia and cerebral ischemia, otherwise it is easy to cause stroke or fainting.

In general, patients are advised to wake up in the morning, rest at the head of the bed for about 10 minutes, and then slowly get out of bed to measure their blood pressure.

2. Don't rush to urinate and wash

Some patients wake up in the morning because of an alarm clock, while most wake up because they pee. Then, the first reaction of people who wake up with urine is to go to the toilet, and then get up to do a series of exercises, such as washing clothes, which will accelerate blood circulation and lead to an increase in blood pressure, which is not conducive to the measurement of blood pressure.

Then you can wait until the patient has rested for about half an hour before taking blood pressure. At this point, the blood pressure value will tend to be stable and the measurement will be more accurate.

3. Don't eat

Do not eat breakfast, smoke, drink alcohol, or drink tea or coffee before the blood pressure is measured, because the blood circulation will accelerate after eating, so the blood pressure measured at this time cannot correctly assess whether the blood pressure is normal. If you have eaten before taking your blood pressure in the morning, you should rest for half an hour to 40 minutes to allow the blood to flow slowly before taking your blood pressure again.

4. Don't exercise

Some people have the habit of exercising in the morning when they wake up in the morning. Most people go home to have their blood pressure measured after exercising. This behavior is usually not advisable because after exercise, the body's blood volume rises substantially, resulting in an increase in blood pressure.

Therefore, the blood pressure value measured after exercise is not accurate, so you can measure your blood pressure first after getting up in the morning, and then measure your blood pressure before doing morning exercises.

To sum up, the blood pressure measured after getting up in the morning is more accurate, but the above points should be paid attention to before measuring blood pressure to avoid large errors in blood pressure values.

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