What to do if your blood pressure rises due to psychological stress

Psychological tension elevated blood pressure should be stabilized emotionally, if necessary, given sedative treatment, seriously elevated patients can be given short-term antihypertensive drug therapy. Psychological tension will lead to sympathetic nerve excitation, resulting in the body’s adrenaline level rises, increasing the heart rate to contract the peripheral blood vessels, resulting in increased blood pressure levels. If the blood pressure rises due to psychological tension, it is necessary to pay attention to stabilizing emotions and avoiding excessive tension, and the blood pressure level can gradually return to normal. Excessive tension patients can also take oral sedative medication, such as diazepam, alprazolam, etc., can play a role in relieving emotional tension, and appropriately reduce blood pressure levels. Patients with severely elevated blood pressure levels can be treated with oral short-acting antihypertensive medications, such as captopril and nifedipine, but under the guidance of a physician.