UHCOP: How to Measure Your Blood Pressure at Home

Ever wonder how you monitor your blood pressure outside of the doctor’s office? Thanks to the Student National Pharmaceutical Association, University of Houston Chapter, we have an instructional video showing how to check your blood pressure at home!

[Corkfish]

Amazing what a difference even a slight variation in how your arm is positioned can make.

[ANOOPBAL]

Rolling up the sleeves will increase your BP by around 10-40 units. Wear half sleeves so that you dont roll up!

[ulysees]

Mine drops significantly when I pull a chair up to the kitchen top and rest my arm there. I judge that to be heart height. When I have it checked at a clinic they ask for you to rest your arm by your side. This obviously increases the reading.

[edwardsmith]

I liked the chart you used to record readings? Can you provide a copy? Thanks.

[saigo]

1) which arm should we use? The left arm seems to be always higher?
2) can we use the right arm?
3) the first reading is always higher than the 2nd & 3rd reading. Do we need to take avg of 3 readings for accuracy?
4) The fluctuation of 3 reading and left and right arm can be alot ofdifference.
Eg. Taking at same time..
Left arm 160/90 then 140/85 then 130/80
Right arm 145/85 then 130/80 then 125/78…

In this case how to record? Tksss

[quickandhealthyrecipes]

The normal blood pressure is 120/80, but a little higher or lower than 120/80 is also good.

[christianjakovceski]

Isn’t it supposed to be lower? I’m always getting different reading depending on how tall the table is

[headach]

Wow how do you get a blood pressure that low, im stuck at 132/82 but that's down from my 146/89

[paulreyes]

Does putting the blood pressure cuff to the neck will get a better accurate reading?

[BAMBI]

If I do my left arm my BP is high. If I do my right arm it’s normal. Am I doing anything wrong?

[californiadreaming]

If you have the app it will record it for you and keep it

[michealeegarcia]

When I use this machine it hurts my arm so bad that I have to stop it. What’s wrong with this machine.

[billyb]

she has very good BP and she's cute too :)

[bruteLulu]

I didn't know that Mia Khalifa started to do vids on how to measure blood pressure ... :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D