Aside from the brachial artery,  where can I take BP?
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radial-where you put the cuff above the wrist below the thumb. the artery behind the knee or above the ankle.
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Generally IV's are started at the most peripheral site that is available and appropriate for the situation. This allows cannulation of a more proximal site if your initial attempt fails. If you puncture a proximal vein first, and then try to start an IV distal to that site, the fluid may leak from the injured proximal vessel. The preferred site in the emergency department is the veins of the forearm, followed by the median cubital vein that crosses the antecubital fossa. In trauma patients, it is common to go directly to the median cubital vein as the first choice because it will accommodate a large bore IV and it is generally easy to catheterize. In circumstances where the veins of the upper extremities are inaccessible, the veins of the dorsum of the foot or the saphenous vein of the lower leg can be used. In circumstances in which no peripheral IV access is possible a central IV can be started.\n\n*** NO NO NO no central line for just IV contrast.  You've got to be kidding me!!!
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I haven't had any kids yet, but I still have spells of low blood pressure. Eating salt does help, mild excercise can help a little (it averages it out, not necessarily raises it). Also, you might consider beef jerkey. It's salty and has a lot of iron and protien, unless you're a vegetarian of course.
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lying down,sitting,standing,etc don't make that much difference. You aren't looking for someones blood pressure after they have been running around, you want resting pressure. If the person has been lying around awhile and then jumps up and runs awhile then the difference between sitting pressure and what you started with before they ran,will notably be different. I have veins that are hard to get a pressure from so I raise my arms and squeeze my hands to get more pressure flowing through my arms which will cause my blood pressure to be read easier.
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Have your blood pressure checked.
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Sounds more like a pinched nerve if the ER is saying nothing is wrong.  However, since the ER could not do a stress test or an MRI it is tough to be sure that it is not your heart.
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through the superior and inferior mesenteric arteries
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Hmmm.  I'm not sure what your question is.  In our office, we usually feel it's adequate to check the blood pressure in each arm, unless we have a clinical suspicion that a certain diagnosis, such as coarctation of the aorta, should be entertained.  I'm not sure what you are getting at here. . .
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Tylenol is fine to take with BP meds.
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i know that foods that are high in pottassium like prunes, bananas, figs etc if eaten regularly can bring down high bp, also try meditation, which is supposed to work well.
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You may need to start with losing some weight.\n\nYou also need to change your eating style.  The diet my husband's doctor recommended for him was the Hampton's Diet.  It required a change in a lot of ways, but they were good changes for all of us in our family.  There are books about it, and it is otherwise known as the Mediterranean diet.  You get some pretty good food.  \n\nIf you do all of that and your bp doesn't go down, high numbers may be hereditary.  You can get your heart and arteries checked to see how well they function. They may function quite well if it's simply hereditary.\n\nAnother thing you can do is try low-dose aspirin.  St. Joseph's is one brand.
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for the high bp, 2 evening primrose oil capsules or a tsp. of cayenne pepper in lukewarm water.\n\nfor the diabetes, fenugreek seeds or peel of a green plantain. see site below for exact info.
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A regular exercise regimen, controlled salt intake, using low sodium salt, a sensible diet and medication as prescribed by your Doc, are much better ways to control high BP
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"Blood pressure is the pressure exerted by the blood on the walls of the blood vessels\n...\nThe systolic pressure is...the peak pressure in the arteries during the cardiac cycle; the diastolic pressure is the lowest pressure"\n\nIn other words:\nBlood pressure (measured using a cuff around the arm filled with air & mercury) is how much pressure is being put on your arteries.  If you've ever had your blood pressure taken, the systolic pressure is the point when the cuff stops cutting the circulation off and you are able to feel you pulse in your arm.  The diastolic pressure is the point when the cuff no longer puts pressure on the artery (because the arteries pressure is now higher than that of the cuff).  This is the point where you would no longer be able to feel your pulse in your arm and it would just feel normal again.\n\nTypically the normal blood pressure is 120/80, but this can vary greatly by age and state of health.\n\nHope this was helpful.
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When you eat unsalted food, do some exercise not excessively, eat nutritious food and you can tell your doctor about this, so he or she will prescribe you some kind of Blood Pressure medication.
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force exerted by the blood upon the walls of the arteries. The pressure in the arteries originates in the pumping action of the heart, and pressure waves can be felt at the wrist and at other points where arteries lie near the surface of the body (see pulse). Since the heart can pump blood into the large arteries more quickly than it can be absorbed and released by the tiny arterioles and capillaries, considerable inner pressure always exists in the arteries. The contraction of the heart (systole) causes the blood pressure to rise to its highest point, and relaxation of the heart (diastole) brings the pressure down to its lowest point.\n\nBlood pressure is strongest in the aorta, where the blood leaves the heart. It diminishes progressively in the smaller blood vessels and reaches its lowest point in the veins (see circulatory system). Blood pressure manifests itself dramatically when an artery is severed or pierced and the blood (under pressure) ejects in spurts.\n\nSince blood pressure varies in different arteries, the pressure in the brachial artery of the forearm serves as a standard. A sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure in millimeters of mercury; blood pressure gauges that do not use mercury also produce readings that are expressed in terms of millimeters of mercury. The normal blood pressure readings in young people are about 120 mm for systolic pressure and about 80 mm for diastolic pressure, commonly written as 120/80 and read as "one-twenty over eighty." With age, and the constriction of the small arteries and then the larger ones, blood pressure increases, so that at 50 years, normal individuals have a systolic pressure between 140 and 150, and a diastolic pressure of about 90.
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What is the origin of your high blood pressure?\nMaybe some other diseases coexist?\nIf we don't know that and what kind of therapy you have taken, if you are pre or post menopausal, if your parents had high BP, we can't talk about natural remedies.\nAs I use to say, in health one size does not fit all.\nAccording my opinion it is dangerous to try substitute your medicines with herbal remedies of any kind without your doctor's opinion.\n\nConsider also the following things\n- usually, herbal remedies are used along with the medicine\n- the form in which you will take the herbal remedy: if you will use garlic, as has been mentioned, what will be the amount that you have to take?\nIs garlic proper for your type of hypertension?\nIf you will drink an infusion(a tea of the herb),what will be the amount of the active substance that will be found in diluition in this infusion? How many cups you have to drink daily?\n \nTry to adopt a healthy life-style that I'm sure you have already adopted, to loose weight, practice some "light" sport like aerobic, walk for 1/2 - 1 hour daily and  try to control your stress ; at this point, a herbal infusion containing relaxing herbs is mostly helpful. Take care also if you take any antiinflammatory medicins, as they can slightly increase your BP.\n\nKaterina