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What Are the Treatments for Low Blood Pressure?

For many people, chronic low blood pressure can be effectively treated with diet and lifestyle changes.

Depending on the cause of your symptoms, your doctor may counsel you to increase your blood pressure by making these simple changes

Eat a diet higher in salt

Drink lots of nonalcoholic fluids

Limit alcoholic beverages

Get regular exercise to promote blood flow.

To help improve circulation, pump your feet and ankles a few times before standing up

When getting out of bed, sit upright on the edge of the bed for a few minutes

try eating smaller, more frequent meals. Cut back on carbohydrates. Rest after eating.

use elastic support (compression) stockings that cover the calf and thigh. These may help restrict blood flow to the legs, thus keeping more blood in the upper body.

So when taking fludrocortisone, it's important to get adequate amounts of potassium each day

Midodrine . Midodrine activates receptors on the arterioles (smallest arteries) and veins to produce an increase in blood pressure. It is used to help increase standing blood pressure in people with postural hypotension related to nervous system dysfunction. More studies are now underway, however, to see how effective this treatment is.