Definitions of Fluctuating and Labile Blood Pressure:
Fluctuating blood pressure: This is not an official term in medicine. It merely means that the pressure varies from the desirable level to an undesirable level.
Labile blood pressure: Also called borderline hypertension. A condition in which the pressure is sometimes in the normotensive range and sometimes in the hypertensive range.
This sounds a lot alike and as far as I know they are basically the same thing.
The Significance of Fluctuating Blood Pressure:
This depends on what percentage of the time your pressure is up and what percentage it is down:
- Up a small % of the time: Then you will get only a small % of the adverse effects and risks of the higher pressure.
- Up about one half of the time: You will get about one half of the adverse effects and risks.
- Up most of the time: You will probably suffer most of the adverse effects of elevated pressure.
Doctor’s Practical Guide:
So the significance of the fluctuations in blood pressure is dependent on how high it goes and how long it stays up.
There is a further significance. There is something different about someone whose blood pressure is sometimes elevated. Today’s intermittent elevation is tomorrow’s sustained elevation. In other words it is a predictor of hypertension in the future.
This is a great opportunity and a very fertile area for natural measures to lower blood pressure and indeed prevent moving into the actual hypertensive state. Measures like:
- Exercise
- Diet
- Smoking cessation
- Alcohol restriction (1 or 2 drinks a day)
- Weight loss (easier said than done)
- Sodium (salt) reduction
- Deep breathing exercises
- Herbs and other supplements. See Herbs That Lower Blood Pressure
These carry no real risk and can make a marvelously better you. The benefits of the measures go far beyond just eliminating fluctuations in blood pressure. SEE Lower Blood Pressure Also see Exercise High BloodPressure
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