| Do the medications used to treat Asthma affect | | | | vessel constriction. However, there are several |
| Blood Pressure? There is no one answer on this | | | | reasons that this doesn't routinely occur in asthma |
| question. In every day reality the answer could be | | | | patients using MDIs: |
| both: Yes and No. MDIs or Metered Dose Inhalers are | | | | - MDIs are an inhaled drug and almost all the drug |
| familiar and commonly prescribed drugs for asthma | | | | remains within the lungs. It's doesn't gets to the beta |
| treatment. If you have asthma MDIs are a familiar | | | | receptors in blood vessels |
| part of your treatment routine. | | | | - Albuterol is the beta agonist widely used in MDIs. |
| How Do Metered Dose Inhalers work? | | | | Although it's not entirely selective, still it's more |
| MDIs are fast acting drugs. They are used to ease | | | | selective action on a subtype of beta receptor found |
| the chest tightness and breathing difficulty commonly | | | | in larger numbers on respiratory passages than on |
| associated with sudden, minor asthma attacks. The | | | | blood vessels |
| medicine in Metered Dose Inhalers works on beta | | | | - The activity of Albuterol has a very short |
| receptors that line the walls of the respiratory | | | | timeframe and if a small amount of drug finds the |
| passages. It stimulates the beta receptors and | | | | way to the blood vessels, those small amounts may |
| causes the respiratory passages to expand and | | | | cause to only a very limited effect on the blood |
| reveal asthma symptoms. The way how it works, | | | | vessels that goes away quickly |
| determine the name of the medicine - it's called a | | | | The types of medications to treat Asthma |
| beta-agonist (drug that enhances the activity of beta | | | | There are also other beta agonists characterized with |
| receptors). | | | | longer life spans commonly used to treat asthma |
| The role of beta blockers in regulating blood pressure | | | | effects. These drugs include: |
| Beta receptors take an important role in the control | | | | |
| of blood vessel diameter. They act to narrow the | | | | 1. Fenoterol - This is characterized by intermediate life |
| diameter of blood vessels. Beta blockers work to | | | | span and isn't used in the U.S. |
| prevent the activation of beta receptors inside the | | | | 2. Salmeterol - is characterized by long life span. |
| blood vessels and dilating them to lower blood | | | | Although these drugs stay inside the body for much |
| pressure. | | | | longer than the short-action drug Albuterol, still they |
| Do Asthma medications Affect blood pressure? | | | | are inhaled and most of the drug tends to remain in |
| It makes sense to wonder about how asthma | | | | the lungs. These drugs are more selective and they |
| medications may affect blood pressure in the body | | | | don't tend to work and affect the type of beta |
| because of their beta-agonist activity. Since the | | | | receptors that line the walls of the blood vessels. |
| asthma medications stimulate beta receptors activity | | | | How natural means can help |
| which in turn causes to the blood pressure's | | | | The most respective medical journals such as The |
| elevation, it's reasonable to think that the asthma | | | | Lancet, the British Medical Journal, and daily |
| medications cause to higher blood pressure. | | | | newspapers such as The Sunday Times, The Daily |
| Well the answer is: Yesand no. | | | | Mail and even on the BBC are consistently reporting |
| Direct exposure of blood vessels to the beta agonist | | | | how natural means can reverse Hypertension and |
| from asthma medication could lead to some blood | | | | other common medical conditions. |