Although there is no clear contraindication to alcohol consumption with antihypertensive drugs, it is generally not recommended to drink alcohol after taking antihypertensive drugs.
Clinically, it is generally recommended that people with high blood pressure limit their consumption of alcohol or refrain from drinking alcohol to avoid excessive fluctuations in blood pressure. Alcohol itself has a certain vasodilatory effect, can briefly make blood pressure drop, if you take antihypertensive drugs and then drink alcohol, easy to form a compound antihypertensive effect, so that the blood pressure is low.
At the same time, the alcohol antihypertensive effect of a shorter period of time, to be excreted after alcohol vascular contraction again, so that the blood pressure suddenly rise, not conducive to the control of blood pressure, and even easy to cause serious cardiovascular damage.
Therefore, if it is not necessary, it is not recommended that people with high blood pressure drink alcohol. Alcohol consumption itself is one of the risk factors for hypertension, and even healthy people are not recommended to drink alcohol.