What to do about stress and anxiety type hypertension

For hypertension caused by nervousness or anxiety, the most common type in clinical practice is called white coat hypertension. The treatment of this type of hypertension is first to improve the emotional factors, mental psychological factors, such as suggesting that patients can take some anti-anxiety, improve mental tension drugs, it is possible that after the tension and anxiety is properly improved, the blood pressure will also be stable. Because high blood pressure caused by tension or anxiety, blood pressure is high and low, there is no big rule to speak of, so sometimes the choice of long-acting antihypertensive drugs will easily make the patient appear hypotensive situation. This time the patient can be advised to take short-acting antihypertensive drugs, such as nifedipine tablets or captopril and other drugs, as well as not recommended to take too large a dose at once to avoid hypotension when the patient is not nervous.