Types of Blood Pressure Medication

Video Transcript

"We'll primarily talk about how blood pressure medicines at the current time. The number one mainstay is a diuretic and the most commonly used one is hydrochloric dioxide and that's referred to as HCTZ and this causes your kidneys to filter out more water from your bloodstream and therefore lessen the load in the bloodstream, reduces the pressure in the pipe, so to speak, by reducing the volume of blood. There are other medications that can draw chemical interactions within the muscle of the heart, there is calcium channel blockers, there is meta blockers, there is alpha and beta blockers, and these are different nerve endings that cause different reactions and contractions in the muscles and also some are involved with respiratory processes. There are Angiotensin inhibitors, ACE inhibitors, and depending on what other health problems you have other than just the high blood pressure and depending on what the source of your blood pressure is will depend on which medication your physician puts you on. However, the primary drugs started is usually a diuretic to reduce the fluid load in the bloodstream."