Causes of high blood pressure during breastfeeding include physiological factors, such as overwork, etc., and pathological factors, such as essential hypertension and renal hypertension. Mild breastfeeding hypertension can be lowered through general treatment, such as active lifestyle adjustment, etc., while severe cases can be lowered through medication.
1. Physiological factors: Breastfeeding women may have increased sympathetic excitability due to overwork, lack of sleep, and large emotional fluctuations, leading to increased blood pressure. Blood pressure can be lowered through lifestyle adjustments, such as low-salt diet, relaxation and adequate sleep.
2. Primary hypertension: The patient may be suffering from high blood pressure disease itself, just that it is not detected before pregnancy. Patients with mild hypertension should lower their blood pressure by actively adjusting their lifestyles, while patients with moderate to severe hypertension should be treated with antihypertensive drugs that do not affect breastfeeding, such as nifedipine, under the guidance of doctors.
3. Renal hypertension: patients suffer from chronic glomerulonephritis and other renal diseases before pregnancy, which are stimulated and manifested after pregnancy, thus causing high blood pressure during breastfeeding. Patients can apply the treatment of renal disease under the guidance of doctors.
If there is no significant improvement in blood pressure after general treatment, patients with high blood pressure during breastfeeding should go to the hospital in time for examination, identify the cause of the disease, and carry out standardized treatment under the guidance of a professional doctor, so as to avoid delaying the condition and causing adverse consequences.