How Olmesartan Can Control Your Blood Pressure Readings

Your high blood pressure could be the symptom of a health problem or could have no particular cause. Unfortunately, regardless of the reason behind it, high blood pressure causes extreme pressure on the walls of your arteries, which leads to damaged blood vessels and organs. Olmesartan could help you control your blood pressure and reduce your risk of heart attack, stroke or other serious health conditions.

To understand how Olmesartan can help you, it helps to understand blood pressure. Blood pressure is measured according to two numbers: systolic and diastolic.

Systolic: The heart contracts, which forces blood through your arteries. The top number of your blood pressure reading, the systolic number, measures pressure on your arteries while blood is pumped through them.

Diastolic: The heart rests and reloads with blood for its next contraction. When the heart rests, arterial blood flow rests. The bottom number of your blood pressure reading, the diastolic number, measures pressure on your arteries while your heart takes a break from pumping blood.

Blood pressure readings fall within one of five categories that the American Heart Association has defined.

Normal Blood Pressure: Systolic is less than 120; diastolic is less than 80.

Prehypertension: Systolic falls between 120 and 139; diastolic falls between 80 and 89.

Stage 1 High Blood Pressure: Systolic falls between 140 and 159; diastolic falls between 90 and 99.

Stage 2 High Blood Pressure: Systolic is higher than 159; diastolic is higher than 99.

Hypertensive Crisis: Systolic is higher than 180; diastolic is higher than 110. Seek immediate emergency care.

High blood pressure occurs as one of two types: primary, which has no determined cause, and secondary, which means it’s a symptom of another condition. Whether it’s primary or secondary, high blood pressure can lead to numerous health issues and must be controlled. That’s where Olmesartan can help.

Technically, Olmesartan is an angiotensin II receptor blocker, also referred to as ARB. Your body contains a substance that causes your blood vessels to tighten. Olmesartan blocks the substance, and your blood vessels, in turn, relax. With relaxed blood vessels, your blood pressure lowers and your heart’s supply of oxygen and blood increases.

By lowering your blood pressure, Olmesartan reduces your risk of heart attack and stroke, heart failure, aneurysm, kidney failure, vision loss, metabolic syndrome and an inability to learn, remember and think.

Generally, doctors prescribe an initial 20 milligram dose of Olmesartan per day; however, children weighing between 45 and 77 pounds might require a lower initial dose.

Olmesartan requires individualization despite the typical starting dose. After two weeks on the medication, your doctor will customize the dose according to your specific requirements. Depending upon the cause of your high blood pressure, the condition of your health, your lifestyle and other considerations, your doctor may prescribe Olmesartan alone, combine it with another medication or prescribe it in conjunction with exercise and dietary changes.

Olmesartan does interact with prescription and non-prescription medication, so the dosage may need further personalization of dosage or frequency to prevent complications arising from drug interactions.

This medication doesn’t cure high blood pressure, but it does help you manage it and keep it under control. By taking Olmesartan exactly as your doctor prescribes it, even when you feel fine, you reduce your risk of developing any of the numerous illnesses associated with dangerous blood pressure measurements.