Contents:
- Medical Video: Pharmacology - HYPERTENSION & ANTIHYPERTENSIVES (MADE EASY)
- Is it true that antibiotics affect blood pressure?
- Antibiotics should not be taken together with hypertension drugs
Medical Video: Pharmacology - HYPERTENSION & ANTIHYPERTENSIVES (MADE EASY)
Antibiotic drugs are drugs used for the treatment of infections caused by disease-causing bacteria in humans and animals such as salmonella, tuberculosis, syphilis, and other diseases. Antibiotics are also known to increase blood pressure if someone suffers from an acute or chronic allergic reaction to certain antibiotics. Is that right?
Is it true that antibiotics affect blood pressure?
An allergic reaction caused by this antibiotic drug can be a mild reaction to a severe allergic reaction. Severe allergic reactions are sometimes life threatening. Symptoms include swollen throat, difficulty breathing, and decreased blood pressure.
While taking antibiotics and blood pressure drugs together can make blood pressure drop dramatically and cause shock in elderly patients.
In one study, the researchers found that elderly people taking calcium-channel blockers (a class of drugs used to treat high blood pressure) who also took macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin, or clarithromycin were more at risk of being hospitalized because of hypotension or blood pressure is very low.
Clarithromycin and erythromycin can interact with calcium-channel blockers. This drug inhibits cytochrome P450 3A4 isoenzyme. But unfortunately, the mechanism and causes of this interaction have not been clearly understood.
Antibiotics should not be taken together with hypertension drugs
A study also shows if you consume this type of pressure treatment the most common high blood pressure, you should not be prescribed concurrently with certain types of antibiotics. This study shows that the combination can result in rare kidney injury but the consequences are serious.
Acute kidney injury, low blood pressure that is very dangerous, and death can occur in people who consume it simultaneously. Research shows that people who take clarithromycin and calcium channel blockers together are twice as at risk for the above side effects within 30 days of taking the antibiotic.
Although the increase in risk is small, the impact cannot be underestimated. A study earlier this year also showed that clarithromycin and erythromycin also interacted in the same way as statin drugs, namely cholesterol-lowering drugs.
However, the side effects of antibiotic drugs related to blood pressure differ in each person. Because the drug of any type will indeed reduce or increase blood pressure.
If you have high blood pressure, you need to be careful about using antibiotics because it can be a serious side effect. When antibiotics are consumed by patients with high blood pressure, the risk of heart attack will increase.
Consult your doctor first about any medication you are taking for more details. Don't forget, if you have hypertension and one day you check with a general practitioner for flu, for example, tell your doctor that you are routinely taking medication for high blood pressure. The doctor may use another type of antibiotic or adjust the dose.
