Rapid heartbeat, or tachycardia, is estimated to occur in 10% of people taking hydralazine. That's because hydralazine causes the body to
There is a fall in blood pressure and consequent reflex tachycardia as a result of the peripheral arteriolar dilatation caused by hydralazine.
To prevent reflex tachycardia, hydralazine is often co-administered with beta-blockers. Other side effects of hydralazine include edema or fluid retention as
Hydralazine is often administered in combination with a diuretic and beta blocker to prevent the side effects of increased blood volume and reflex tachycardia.
Hydralazine hydrochloride can cause tachycardia and hypotension potentially leading to myocardial ischemia and angina, particularly in patients with
1 It is generally recognized that the vasodilator hydralazine produces hypotension accompanied by baroreflex-mediated tachycardia.
Tachycardia or a faster heartbeat. Changes in a mood like anxiousness, fear Hydralazine Hydrochlorothiazide Hydrocodone Hydrocortisone Hydroquinone
Hydralazine, an arterial vasodilator, is used for the treatment of acute-onset and severe hypertension as well as heart failure during pregnancy and may be used orally or intravenously . Oral hydralazine in patients with preeclampsia was shown to have no effect on placental perfusion . Hydralazine is associated with reflex tachycardia, maternal
Warning And Precautions. Consider concurrent use of beta blocker: hydrALAzine is associated with reflex tachycardia. Drug Interactions.
Sadly, disabled people don't just get ignored socially, they're also often not treated as people by carers who should know better. When I was in hospital for an operation for tachycardia I met a woman with CP who told me how a nurse had asked her husband, in her presence, a medical question she should have asked her directly, as though this quite intelligent woman was too dimwitted to answer for herself. The husband quite rightly said Why don't you ask her yourself?. The really stupid thing is that the question was one the husband could only have answered if his wife had told him the answer. Another lovely wheelchair-bound woman I got to know told me how she was forced onto a virtual starvation diet to control her weight (it's a lot harder to burn off calories in a wheelchair!).
I've also met one disabled person with an ugly selfish personality, although I think he probably had the personality before he got the disability by falling out of a building whilst rotten drunk.
Slightly off topic: I think they should not have changed terms from handicapped to disabled. After all, a horse with a handicap can still win a race, and a golfer with a handicap can still win the game, but disabled seems just too absolute.