5 Common Blood Pressure Reading Mistakes to Avoid

                            5 Common Blood Pressure Reading Mistakes to Avoid

High blood pressure, which is also known as hypertension, is emerging as a major disease in today's time, we often see that one out of every five youth is facing the problem of high BP and it is happening  Due to the change in their diet and diet, we are going to discuss the same thing in today's article that why this happens and what is the reason for it because many people who are suffering from high BP and they are using medicine continuously.  Instead of going to the doctor again and again to measure it with a blood pressure machine, he brings a blood pressure gauge at home and tries to measure it at home, but it is often seen that the readings of blood pressure are measured.  Time they make many types of mistakes which do not give accurate readings so to measure the readings accurately some precautions are required which you should pay attention and then you can get your readings correct otherwise it is you  So let's know what are the precautions that we should keep while measuring blood pressure on a blood pressure machine.  I want

1- If you have just had a full meal and you are preparing to measure your blood pressure with your blood pressure machine, then stop because this is not the right time and it will not give your accurate readings so you have to eat food  Measurement is to be done only after at least 2 hours after doing it and you will get a pure reading from it. Apart from this, if you have exercised and have consumed caffeinated drinks like tea, coffee or redbull etc. then you will get less  Blood pressure should be measured only after at least 30 minutes, then only accurate readings will be available, otherwise you will not be able to get accurate readings and you may get confused.

 2- If you want to measure blood pressure and you have put the cuff on your arms and the process is going on then you should not talk because this causes your blood level to fluctuate and accurate reading is not available so you should  It is to be noted that at the time of measurement you do not have to talk and for this you should first sit on a comfortable chair for 5 minutes and calm down and after that you should measure your blood pressure then only you can get accurate reading

3- You have to note that when you sit for reading, you have to apply the cuff of the machine only on the skin and not on the clothes.  A cuff is applied over the skin and an attempt is made to do the reading, but it does not give accurate readings, so care should be taken that it should be cuffed over the skin, it puts pressure on the skin and blood flow.  Tubes provide accurate readings

4- You also have to keep in mind that when you are sitting to measure blood pressure and the process is going on, then you have to keep the level of your hand at the level of your heart i.e. at the same height as your heart.  The sides should be even and for this you can also take the support of a stool or table, this helps in coming together with the pure reading heart

 5- It has been seen that sometimes only one measurement does not give accurate readings, for this it is suggested by AIIMS that you should measure blood pressure at least 3 times at an interval of 3 minutes and from this  Gets the exact result and you get the accurate reading

  If you take the above-mentioned precautions while measuring blood pressure, then definitely you will get accurate readings and you will not get confused otherwise it can be a dangerous thing for you because if your reading is not coming right then your blood pressure is high.  maybe and you can be in trouble