Measure Your Blood Pressure at Home.
Blood pressure is the popular disease that we always heared. Many are does not know they have the blood pressure until it tell by the doctor. Now you are not have the problem to check your blood pressure. Now don’t wait your doctor give you the bad result about your blood pressure. You can easily check it yourself at your home.
To measure your blood pressure at home, you can use either an aneroid monitor or a digital monitor. The aneroid monitor has a dial gauge that is read by looking at a pointer. The cuff is inflated by hand, by squeezing a rubber bulb. Digital monitors have either manual or automatic cuffs. The blood pressure reading flashes on a small screen. Choose the type of monitor that best suits your needs.
Aneroid monitor is that it can easily be carried from one place to another. The cuff is built-in stethoscope, that don’t need to buy a separate stethoscope. The unit may have a special feature that makes it easier to put the cuff on with one hand. In addition, the aneroid monitor costs less than digital monitors. Aneroid monitors range in price from about $20 to $30.
The digital monitor is easier to use than the aneroid unit. It has a gauge and stethoscope that are one unit, and the numbers are easy to read. It also has an error indicator, and deflation is automatic. Inflation of the cuff is either automatic or manual, depending on the model. This blood pressure monitoring device is good for hearing-impaired patients, since there is no need to listen to heart sounds through the stethoscope. But the price is more that aneroid monitor. The cost is more about $30 to over $100.
Now you can have all the device, but how to measure? Normal blood pressure is 120/80 or lower. High blood pressure is 140/90 or higher. If your blood pressure is between 120/80 and 140/90, you have something called “prehypertension” (you are in the beginning stages and at risk of high blood pressure).If your blood is between 120/80 and 140/90 or higher, please get to your doctor and need his advice.