It is treated with reserpine _ that the elderly's hypertension should be careful

It is treated with reserpine _ that the elderly's hypertension should be careful
Reserpine employ a extensive resist the intersection of hypertension and medicine at being clinical. Characteristic of function is slow, gentle, lasting that it steps down, just function appears to take orally for more than 1 week, 2- function reached the peak in 3 weeks, it could last 3- 4 weeks after medicines stopped. To slightly to intermediate early hypertension, curative effect is reliable, steady. Often make up with other depressor compoundly, treat hypertension of different types. But it is apt to cause a great deal of bad reactions to take for a long time, so, old hypertension patient, it is used that should be careful particularly.
Because the elderly use reserpine for a long time to cause central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract to react. The stable function of the centre often behaves and has a liking for sleeping, weak, tired, cause the nightmare sometimes. Take low dose of (small to 0.25 milligrams for every day) for a long time Can also cause mental depression are getting serious to even attempt to commit suicide. So, the elderly forbid like the history person of original mental depression. Employ reserpine for a long time while being heavy dose of, can take place extrapyramidal system symptom while being even, similar Parkinson's disease, are shown as muscles tremble, the reason which this department exhausts because of basal ganglion dopamine of centre. The gastrointestinal tract reflect and is mainly shown as that cause the gastric acid to secrete increasing, suffering from diarrhoea etc., so the elderly should forbid reserpine to suffer from gastric ulcer. The elderly employ symptom of also slowing down the nasal obstruction, heart rate etc. after reserpine. Can employ for a long time because water and sodium retention cause edema.
While investigating and analysing according to the medicine bad reaction that the experts take, find the old women patient taking reserpine for a long time, the incidence of its breast cancer is 3- 4 times higher than the women of the same age not taking medicine. The elderly, like take foreign the intersection of digitalis and the intersection of type and medicine while employing reserpine, apt to happen suddenly the intersection of heartbeat and stop or various complicated arrhythmia. In addition can use reserpine inhibiting from function for a long time, make the elderly's mood deteriorate, depressed. So, the old hypertension patient should be careful by or not need reserpine, especially have the hypertension patients of digestive tract ulcer, melancholia medical history and heart with depleted functioning, should forbid reserpine and step down.
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