My husband just returned from a doctor visit with a prescription for?!
Question: high blood pressure medication. He has had elevated blood pressure since he was 8. He is only 26, not overweight at all, eats well (because I decide what he eats), does not drink or do any drugs, and he is very physically active. He is a smoker though, but obviously not since he was 8. He did not ask the doctor why he has high blood pressure!!!! Has anyone heard of this in such a young man with no other risk factors aside from smoking?
Answers: high blood pressure medication. He has had elevated blood pressure since he was 8. He is only 26, not overweight at all, eats well (because I decide what he eats), does not drink or do any drugs, and he is very physically active. He is a smoker though, but obviously not since he was 8. He did not ask the doctor why he has high blood pressure!!!! Has anyone heard of this in such a young man with no other risk factors aside from smoking?
Pediactric Hypertension is something that is rarely ever discussed but is believed to affect about 3% of all children. Children who are found with persistently elevated blood pressures without a defined cause (like adrenal tumor or morbid obesity) are classified as Primary or Essential Hypertension. They will grow into adults with Essential Hypertension. Unfortunately, your husband seems to fall under this classification, and is further impacted by the smoking habit that he acquired in adulthood.
His principle needs here are to limit the negative aspects that his hypertension has on his life by frequent monitoring and taking his medications as prescribed, and by adjusting his lifestyle (smoke cessation) to prevent a worsening of what will be his lifelong disease. I wish him success.
Good luck.
Ralph
My bp is a little bit high. I told my doc why is it so high because I dont smoke and I never use salt and I work out a lot. He said do I eat out a lot or do tv dinners because they salt the crap out of stuff and you dont even know.
High blood pressure could be caused by an underlying medical condition. But, most likely it's just a genetic thing. Some people are just prone to high blood pressure. Hypertension is deadly and should be treated regardless of age. He should also quit smoking.
Also, I find it hard to believe that he'll do something as unhealthy as smoking but would still follow your decisions on what he should eat. I guarantee he eats junk when you're not around to chastise him.
Lack of Exercises. Not eating properly, Any kind of stress will raise BP....
and Smoking
It is also hereditary
My boyfriend is the exact same way. Although he does not smoke, he has elevated blood pressure as well, simply because it is genetic. Most likely smoking is one reason, but since he has had elevated blood pressure since he was only 8 years old, it is most likely genetic. Some people can eat horribly and never exercise and have great blood pressure, due to genes.
High blood pressure can be hereditary and for most part is. My brother is about the same age as your husband as been on blood pressure medication for a couple years. My brother is physically fit, rarely drinks, but he does smoke. But the rest of the family including my self (age 34) has high blood pressure.
Tell him to lay off the salty diet, try exercising, and quit the smoking. Drink water instead of soft drinks.
Hypertension is not a curse from God for evildoing. I'm sure you're aware that blood pressure in an individual varies from moment to moment, but you may feel better to know that the average mean resting blood pressure of individuals in a large group basically follows a Bell curve, and many hypertensives are so simply because they're above the cutoff (for increased risk of cardiovascular disease) simply on a statistical basis. Essential hypertension, though, normally doesn't begin to appear until about his age, so if he's really been hypertensive from age 8, I'd think some doctor at some point would have investigated for actual causes, such as aldosteronism or renal artery stenosis. Unfortunately, in this day of cost-containment incentives among insurers, that assumption may not be correct, and I wonder if he's had what used to be the normal screening tests that once were done routinely before beginning treatment.
Smoking is the number one thing you can do to destroy your health.
I am not judging him, just saying the science.
He definitely should stop the smoking .
Ask your doctor if he has taken ecg tests. These can show up a lot of things.
Definately quit the smoking. You don't have to be too strict with foods as long as they are in moderation, except of course for the high salts and fats etc.
High blood pressure can be mostly a genetic factor. Check with his parents and siblings. If that's the case it is even more important for him to stop smoking. He will have to be much more careful with his diet to get it under control. Watch his salt intake. Stop cooking with salt. Let the other family members salt their food to taste at the table as long as they don't have blood pressure issues also.