HYPERTENSION – IMPORTANCE OF TREATMENT
The doctor may combine drugs which act on different areas, increasing the dose of each of one until side affects appear, then adding another drug and increasing that the same way.
Some patients may respond to the first drug used and be hardy enough not to suffer ill-effects, and others may seem to suffer every side effect at a low dose, and the drugs have little benefit for their blood pressure.
These are the patients of whom their doctors despair and they, in turn, despair of them. They frequently abandon either the doctor or the treatment.
One of the great challenges of medical practice is convincing these people to persist with treatment and eventually bringing their blood pressure under control and so prevent the serious consequences of severe hypertension.
Blood pressure may rise during pregnancy, usually due to pre-eclamptic toxaemia. This is a direct result of the pregnancy, although the exact cause is unknown, and may lead to serious problems for both the mother and the child.
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