Under pressure!

Advantages: Easy to use, accurate, saves going out to the garage, good value
Disadvantages: None

...When you are learning to drive, you tend not to think about the boring bits of actually passing your test and then getting your own car. I remember when I went to buy my first car, my dad was on the phone telling me to ask the salesman about all the boring technical bits, and thank goodness he did because to be honest, I didn't have a clue. Since I've been on the road a lot more, he has been doing his best to educate me in the upkeep of my lovely little Micra and I'm now a dab hand at keeping thinking ticking over and running smoothly. The last thing I learnt to do was check my tyre pressures and how to pump them up, and this little gadget has been invaluable for that particular task! The Halfords LED Digital Tyre Pressure Gauge is a tool you can use at home to help you find out the PSI (Pound per square inch) of your car tyres. It...

mummy2harry 13.09.2009 · Read review
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Water Pressure at School

Advantages: cheap for bottled water
Disadvantages: it's the same as my tap water

...We are all aware nowadays of the importance of drinking water to maintain a healthy body. (I have to admit to still not drinking enough of the stuff, despite all good intentions.) Anyway, last year, schools decided to jump on the Water is Wonderful bandwagon and recommended that all children bring a bottle of water into class with them. A hydrated brain is much more receptive to learning. The children were delighted with the novelty of being allowed to drink a bottle of something, anything, in the class, and threw themselves into complying with the recommendation. This is where the problem lies. We live in Central Scotland, where tap water is clean and clear and tastes beautiful. No problem, one would think, with pouring tap water into a drinking flask, chilling it, then sending it off to school with my daughter to feed...

LindaL 28.02.2003 · Read review
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How Pressured Are You?

Advantages: none really unless you have low pressure
Disadvantages: lots if you have high pressure

...Blood pressure is a measure of how forcefully your blood is pressing against your artery walls with each heartbeat. Blood pressure is gauged by two numbers such as 120//80 which is spoken as one twenty over eighty. The first number is called systolic pressure and the second number if diastolic pressure. The systolic pressure is the one in the arteries when they are filled with blood and your heart is beating and the diastolic pressure is the one when your heart is resting between beats. In the UK it is considered that your blood pressure is fairly normal if your top reading is between 110-140 and bottom reading is 70-90, although 120/80 is about the most average you can get and apparently this is the roughly the range to aim for. HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE In general if you have high blood pressure you should be aware...

anonymili 17.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Member Advice on High Blood Pressure

grace under pressure

Advantages: excellent value, quick, accurate, fully automatic
Disadvantages: not aesthetically pleasing

...This isn?t cheap tat as the £9.99 price tag would indicate. I was inspired to write this review because I was horrified at the price tag of most of these BP monitors. I never realised the price that some of the brands were going for. I have one of these; I also bought my dad one. I also have an Omron R6 but I have decided not to review it once I found out it was being sold for £75, you see I paid £4.99 for mine. Admittedly the Omron looks nicer than Lloyds but not that much nicer. The Lloyds is actually a £50.00 machine but the price is reduced to £9.99. Admittedly the price cuts are not all down to altruism; Lloyds are a rapidly developing pharmaceutical market leader, their market share has increased by 67%. They have achieved this by placing pharmacies in GPs surgeries and doing free health checks i.e. diabetic and blood pressure...

Miskah 02.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of LLoyds Pharmacy Blood Pressure Monitor

Under Pressure

Advantages: Quick testing
Disadvantages: cost maybe

...When I was diagnosed with hypertension (that’s technical for high pressure), It was another yet health worry to cope with! I was placed on the tablet ‘lisinopril’ which had some really unwanted side effects (see review on it). In fact it was enough to send you BP sky high! Having a family history of hypertension related illnesses it was of some concern, though not majorly. Normal Pressure is rated at around 120/80 - mine was around 140/90 (and above): Not that high I thought, and in fact according to the leaflet in this package it is acceptable as normal according to the World Health Organisation! But the very fact that I am diabetic was enough for concern, (as Pressure in a diabetic is generally required to be lower) and a prescription for ‘Lisinopril’ was issued. Anyway, not...

dabmim 10.01.2002 · Read review
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PUMPING PRESSURE

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: lots

...Hypertension, the correct name for high b lood pressure. Hypertension can lead to serious consequences, and it is therefore important that your BP (B lood pressure) is correctly monitored and treated as necessary. Hypertension is simply put when your arteries are narrowed and the b lood is pushed harder through them. Most patients do not know they have hypertension until they go to their doctor for something else and have their B P read as routine. Normal B P’s are around 120/80, which is ideal. However as you get older this increases and the acceptable norm becomes 160/90 (at around 60 years). In ninety per cent of people the cause for their hypertension is unknown, this is called ‘primary or essential’ hypertension. In the rest of the cases there are reasons this is usually called ‘secondary...

dabmim 01.10.2001 · Read review
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Review of Member Advice on High Blood Pressure

Pressure,pressure,blood pressure.

Advantages: Helps keep a check on your health.
Disadvantages: Price maybe, could get a little paranoid about health.

...I thought I would have a change from all the heavy stuff I have been writing about lately, and write about a little machine I bought about six months ago. The Omron MX3. It is a blood pressure monitor. All my life my blood pressure has been wildly erratic. The highest measured blood pressure I recorded was 180/100. High yes, but I had just spent 12 minutes on a treadmill having a heart test. Anyway it was back to 140/80 within 5 minutes. They told me that was great. Anyway when I go to the doctors it varies between 157/95 being the highest and 117/76 being the lowest. Generally though it is about 140/80-85 I have researched this a little and I have realised that your blood pressure can vary and change very rapidly. I have confirmed this by visits to the doctor and a medical friend of mine who uses a different machine to the one...

milleniumzeus 13.10.2003 · Read review
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Review of Omron RX Blood Pressure Monitor

High Blood Pressure

Advantages: see op
Disadvantages: see op

...causing a stroke. So what are the symptoms? It will become apparent, you may have headaches, become confused, sleepiness, have difficulty in breathing and nose bleeds. So what can you do to prevent high blood pressure? You need to have your blood pressure checked by your doctor if its high he usually arranges tests and use medications as part of your treatment. He may give you drugs combat to blood pressure. Two examples are: Beta Blockers: This medication relaxes the heart. They are used in the treatment of angina, irregular heart rrhythms, they are sometimes given after the person suffers a heart attack. Beta blockers have other uses it may be given for reducing physical symptoms of anxiety, mirgrane. Diuretics: Help to turn of excess body water into urine. they remove excess of water from the blood stream. They act...

Elainebaba 24.08.2001 · Read review
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Better Than Water

Advantages: Two worlds melded together very nicely
Disadvantages: Not terribly well drawn characters

...Mike Carey is not a name I'd come across before, but on hearing he'd written the book that the film ''Constantine'' was based on, I was certainly interested in his work. ''Thicker Than Water'' is the fourth in his series involving Felix Castor and whilst that gave me slight pause about coming in to an already well established series, my desire to check out Carey's work outweighed any concerns I had. Felix Castor is an exorcist, attempting to fight the demons, werewolves and zombies that inhabit our world. Not all of them, as his closest friend has a demon living inside him whilst his friends Nicky and Juliet are a zombie and succubus. Mostly, he lets such things be, but if they cause trouble he takes it upon himself to remove them from the world and let us mere humans live in peace. This time around, Castor is implicated in a murder...

Soho_Black 12.11.2009 · Read review
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Water

Advantages: Story, performances etc
Disadvantages: None

...Water directed by Deepa mehta is one of the controversial movies in Indian Cinema, Shabana Azmi & Akshay Kumar were suppose to do this movie orginally & Shabana did shaved her head for this movie but the movie didnt took off due to political reasons, and later it was made by casting John Abraham & Seema Biswas. Cast : John Abraham(Narayan) Lisa Ray(Kalyani) Seema Biswas(Shakuntala) Manorama(Madhumati) Sarala(Chuyia) Child Artist Waheeda Rahman(Johns Mother in Movie) Directed by Deepa Mehta Story Plot : This movie is about the Post Independence Era of India during the British Rule, it revolves around social Issues like child Marriage, Widow Re-marriage, etc. Well In those time there was a law that if your husband dies then the widow either gets burn alive with in the pyre of her husband, marry the younger brother...

majeedkazi 16.04.2008 · Read review
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