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I'd have called him on that lie in a heart beat.Hot water raises blood pressure, it is recommended for people with high blood pressure to use the spa a lower temperatures so as not to dangerously elevate their BP, so how low is your BP? If his doctor really did say this I can only refer to Georg Carlins observation that by process of elimination, there IS a WORST doctor in the world, the bad news is somebody's got an appointment with him tomorrow. Evidently Terms customer.
I believe I would have to call you on that one. Most studies focus on hypertension and hot tubs/saunas. Unless one had orthostatic hypotension, often a side effect of hypertensive therapy, they usually could tolerate hot tubs well if they were otherwise relatively asymptomatic.Among many sources is this example:http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=280579The American Heart Association has this to say:http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=584Studies addressing chronic HYPOtension or low blood pressureare not as readily available. But a patient with chronic hypotension likely would not be a good candidate for a spa as his physician pointed out. Wouldn't make much sense to compound their current condition and risk fainting in the tub, arrhythmias or sudden hyperthermic death (the last more associated with saunas and alcohol consumption). But what the heck do I know, after all I don't play a doctor on TV. But in real life however...
Great, then Terms customers doctor needs to go to continuing education courses. After reading both articles the first being extensive and very boring revealed that only one person suffered a reaction out of their hypertensive group and their normotensive (control) group 21 and 23 people respectivly. This paragraph caught my attention.....How much can blood pressure be reduced acutely without causing symptoms? Studies done several decades ago in which normotensive subjects and subjects with treated and untreated hypertension were given sympathoplegic agents to acutely reduce blood pressure showed that cerebral blood flow was unchanged when mean arterial pressure was reduced by 25% (equivalent to a reduction of 35% in systolic blood pressure).11,12 Furthermore, no symptoms were reported until systolic blood pressure was reduced by 50%. Accordingly, a reduction of 20%–25% in mean arterial pressure within “minutes to hours” is recommended for hypertensive emergencies.13 We observed reductions in mean arterial pressure of 26% (from 99 to 73 mm Hg) in the normotensive group and of 23% (from 110 to 85 mm Hg) in the hypertensive group. Only 3 normotensive subjects and 1 hypertensive subject showed reductions greater than 30%, and none showed reductions greater than 35%; none complained of hypotensive symptoms.Playing doctor since I was ohhhh 5?