Cold in hypertensive patients preferred proprietary Chinese medicines

Cold preferred proprietary Chinese medicine in patients with hypertension expert Professor Wu Yubo IV of Harbin Medical University Hospital Pharmacy/Associate Professor of respiratory medicine expert Liang Ruitypical case: hypertension for many years, due to adhere to medication, blood pressure has been controlled well. But in the past 1 week blood pressure was very unstable, even if you eat the drug remained high. Puzzle piece to the hospital, doctors after careful inquiry found that due to the cold cold, these days have been eating cold medicine. It turns out that cold medicine is the initiator of the antihypertensive drug failures. Pharmacists sold various cold medicine, its components are mainly paracetamol (antipyretic and analgesic composition), and pseudoephedrine hydrochloride (reducing nasal congestion components), dextromethorphan hydrobromide (antitussive components), amantadine (antiviral constituents) and Chlorphenamine maleate (antihistamine component). Although to a certain extent eased cold symptoms, but it will also cause some side effects, such as pseudoephedrine hydrochloride can make blood pressure, and obvious and persistent, and adverse reactions such as heartbeat, would increase the illness in patients with hypertension. Experts caution that should be based on their blood pressure in hypertensive patients to select components for your cold medicine. Light or usual blood pressure control in patients with hypertension better people, to short-term taking cold medicine with lower content of pseudoephedrine hydrochloride, but not common; not in patients with moderate to severe hypertension and blood pressure control in ideal person, you should try to avoid using these drugs. Currently on the market common cold medicine containing pseudoephedrine hydrochloride have Tylenol, new kangtai grams, hundreds of white and black, day and night wear such as Ning; no sentiment of Western medicines containing pseudoephedrine Hong, crack, Hong, capsule of suxiaoshangfeng. Want the pseudoephedrine component relieve Nasal symptoms in patients with hypertension, you can use the right amount of pseudo ephedrine nasal drops, because the local use of pseudoephedrine, relatively small effect on blood pressure. Experts believe that has a small cold is best taking proprietary Chinese medicines, the effect on stability, security, and most do not contain pseudoephedrine, like shuanghuanglian oral liquid, granules of radix isatidis, qingkailing oral solution, these cold medicine should be first choice for hypertensive patients after a cold. But contain licorice constituents of traditional Chinese medicine, should take caution in patients with hypertension, liquorice can be hydrolyzed into glycyrrhetinic acid, its role is similar to adrenocortical hormone can cause elevation of blood pressure.

See the family health report of January 13, 2011 edition of the original "concerned elderly patients"