BP touching 160-170 always

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Asked for Female, 50 Years

My mother has been a BP patient since 2 years , earlier it was ok but now from past 6 months her BP touches always 92/160 mm hg and she is a working woman but even though she takes medicine once every morning as prescribed by doctor Bp is not lowering , medicine she takes is Dilnip -TM 25 of 25 mg , so please doctor help her by curbing this problem and providing a good solution for lowering BP or should we again change medicine

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Dr. Jyotirmaya Dash Cardiologist 28 yrs exp Chennai Consult Now · Accepted Answer

Dr. Jyotirmaya Dash

Cardiologist 28 yrs exp Chennai

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First of all get Renal function test done to see the values before changing it . Get an ecg and echo . Ask her to reduce the salt intake to 5 gm per day . Check morning and eve BP for a week and share the values . If still high would consider modifying it .

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