What treatmets do you recommend for high blood pressure?

Standard: HCTZ (hydrochlorothiazide) 25 is the standard. However, at your age it would be better to check with your doc to know for sure.

No answer: Unfortunately that is much too broad a question to provide a simple answer. At 17 we need to be sure that a person truly has high blood pressure before committing to life long treatment. It may be as simple as weight loss and control of salt but the issue needs work up before starting any therapy.

Hypertension: If the blood pressure is mildly or moderately elevated, we would start with weight reduction, salt restriction,stress reduction, caffeine limitation and recheck the blood pressure after 2 weeks. Medications, if needed to maintain a BP of around120/80, could be a diuretic, calcium channel blocker or beta blocker.

Individual: Every patient with high blood pressure should be approached individually. History, family history, diet, sleep and stressors would give clues regarding possible causes. Need more information and physical examination to be able to tailor this answer to an individual patieny