Surely many people know that alcohol is contraindicated when taking medications.
It is absolutely forbidden to use it if we are talking about blood pressure pills.
The consequences of such a "cocktail" are truly terrible. And, by the way, few people, alas, think about it.
Even if you don’t have problems with your blood pressure and it’s normal (120 to 80), alcohol will change it when it enters your body.
Just a few minutes after a drink, the alcohol, once in the brain, will “switch off” the inhibitory neurons.
At the same time, the tone of the vessels in the heart, as a rule, increases.
In order to overcome resistance by pushing blood, the heart begins to contract more forcefully, and this leads to an increase in pressure.
In some people, on the contrary, the vascular tone relaxes, the heart does not contract at its normal rate and, as a result, the pressure drops.
But be that as it may, in both cases the pressure will change even in a healthy person.
Well, if you take blood pressure pills, for example, for arterial hypertension, alcohol will increase their effect many times over.
If the medication is intended to reduce vascular tone, then alcohol can lead to a much more powerful effect.
This can result in a sharp drop in blood pressure, even to the point of fainting.
The effect will be enhanced by alcohol and medications aimed at stimulating vascular tone.
Then you won't be able to avoid trouble with the consequences of excessively high pressure.
Author: Pavel Gospodarik
