Furosemide

Furosemide is a potent diuretics with a lot of side effects. It is used to delay treatment of fluid in the body and high blood pressure. If you have more than 60 years, you should apply only when furosemide delayed fluid in the body, and only if you have impaired kidney function, and you've already used more sparing drug such as gidrohlortiazid and its use does not yield results. People over 60 years of age with normal kidney function is not recommended for furosemide, with few exceptions.

WHO does not recommend the use of furosemide to reduce high blood pressure in elderly patients, since there are several reports of the existence of correlation between the use of furosemide and the risk of stroke. Elderly patients are at greater risk trombooborazovaniya, shock, dizziness, blurred of reason, insomnia, and fainting as a result of receiving furosemide.

If you have hypertension, the best way to get rid of the need to receive medications are such measures as changing diet, reducing body weight, regular exercise and reducing the consumption of salt and alcohol. A small rise in pressure can be controlled through proper diet and exercise. If these actions do not lead to sufficient reduction in pressure and you need medication, you should choose gidrohlortiazid, diuretic drug, and begin with a small dose - 12.5 mg / day. The benefits of this drug include the fact that it is cheaper all other antihypertensive drugs. There is convincing evidence that tiazidovye diuretics such as hydrochlorothiazide, significantly decrease the rate of leaching of minerals from bone tissue as in men and women, because they reduce the amount of calcium in urine output. A growing number of researchers also tend to believe that these drugs reduce the risk of fractures.