Taking vitamin A has no therapeutic effect on hypertension, but if a person with hypertension is deficient in vitamin A, it is beneficial to take vitamin A to improve the uncomfortable symptoms associated with the deficiency, such as dry eye and itchy skin.
Hypertension is a clinical syndrome in which the systolic and diastolic blood pressures in the body’s circulating arteries are abnormally elevated for a variety of reasons. Hypertension is divided into primary hypertension and secondary hypertension, primary hypertension is mostly related to smoking, obesity, exertion and other factors, secondary hypertension is caused by diseases, such as endocrine disease, kidney disease.
Vitamin A is a common nutrient element, mainly used to treat the body lack of vitamin A caused by the uncomfortable symptoms, such as dry eye disease, night blindness, hypertension disease has no therapeutic effect.
However, hypertensive patients who are accompanied by chronic renal failure, hyperphosphatemia or hypercalcemia, etc., are not allowed to take vitamin A. And vitamin A has adverse reactions, some patients will be easily fatigued, fever, anaphylactic shock and other symptoms after taking it, once appeared need to consult a doctor in time.
Although vitamin A is an essential vitamin, but can not replace the drug treatment of disease, especially patients with high blood pressure, daily life should pay attention to diet control, taking drugs or other nutrients need to be standardized under the guidance of a doctor.