My wife's blood pressure is sky high.

My fault, I told her to take everything with a 'pinch of salt'.

As someone who has worked in the medical profession for 35 years I cant agree with Jaybeams comment and am more inclined to agree with spitthedog1964 "every home should have one". Read the instructions carefully. Take a few measurements over a period of time. If they are abnormally high you need to see your Doctor. These machines are a helpful guide but your Doctor is the person to see if you have any concerns.The number of patients I saw who had high blood pressure without knowing it was shocking.
Andrew22 did you put the cuff on in the correct manner and did you have the machine at the correct elevation ?. You will get different readings for all sorts of reasons. Heres a guide for anyone who invests in one of these lifesavers.

http://www.bloodpressureuk.org/BloodPressureandyou/Homemonitoring/Howtomeasure Have loadsa heat gouyella

I set mine to automatic (1 minute) and strapped it around my genitals. Best £3.75 I've ever spent.

Someone tell the NHS ours are over £1,000! :laughing:

That price is enough to give you high blood pressure!:laughing:
Heat from me.

My wife's blood pressure is sky high.

My fault, I told her to take everything with a 'pinch of salt'.

cuff a mans ****

i got this. its great. sorry no high blood pressure jokes today

Someone tell the NHS ours are over £1,000! :laughing:

I hope this are more accurate than their bathroom scales

Can confirm its national

Every home should have one.

Where is it situated in store please ?. Is it beside the pharmacy or in one of the aisles. Thanks

Amazing deal

Just be warned all those voting hot if this is not validated it could give a false sense of security. My advice go to your doctor to make sure it's reading ok otherwise it could be the worst £3.75 you ever spend!

For more accurate results do it when you wake up early morning and while its on relax and try to not think.

Every time this comes up I can never find one - can anyone vouch for them having been in Norwich (boundry road)

There's a full automatic blood pressure checker in my doctors surgery, so you can go in and check your blood pressure without troubling a doctor or nurse. I'd assume that would be quite common.

I got the salter upper arm blood pressure tester from asda last year and mine seems to be quite accurate compared to the one at the doctors.

They normally sell it at cost for £7.50, and also do a wrist one with integrated cuff for £3.75. Its harder to get a consistent, accurate reading from a wrist one though.

Thank you gouryella

I have two of these and they're pretty accurate although I don't think they're approved by the British Hypertension Society. Don't forget that the cuff may not be the right size for you and will affect the reading.

Also it's scary taking your blood pressure when pretty hung over. Try it sometime.

to What? Whats yore point?

Got one a few weeks back. Gives totally random readings, even when taking two in a row, they would be completely different to each other. Example..
139/87
120/91 after 5 mins sitting
141/90 after another 5 mins sitting

Returned and refunded.

As someone who has worked in the medical profession for 35 years I cant agree with Jaybeams comment and am more inclined to agree with spitthedog1964 "every home should have one". Read the instructions carefully. Take a few measurements over a period of time. If they are abnormally high you need to see your Doctor. These machines are a helpful guide but your Doctor is the person to see if you have any concerns.The number of patients I saw who had high blood pressure without knowing it was shocking.
Andrew22 did you put the cuff on in the correct manner and did you have the machine at the correct elevation ?. You will get different readings for all sorts of reasons. Heres a guide for anyone who invests in one of these lifesavers.

http://www.bloodpressureuk.org/BloodPressureandyou/Homemonitoring/Howtomeasure Have loadsa heat gouyella

Do you really want me to point out the four errors you've managed to squeeze into just five words or are you just pretending to be so unskilled in the use of our written language?

Justas I thught grammar police trawlling. Yore point ws? five not fore

Anyone found one in Northern Ireland?

I understood what he mean't - this is not an English language forum. So go be a pedant elsewhere..

You also need to loosen the cuff between readings.

You can also get inconsistent readings if you have an irregular heartbeat, in which case the salter one will flash the heart symbol when it shows the results.


One of the doctors at my surgery uses a less accurate wrist one.

Great price and worth having one in every family to check at least monthly

The Salter blood pressure has been advertised by Asda since last year but whenever I querried to buy it . I kept being told its sold out.

you might have an arrhythmia if you're getting very erratic readings.
Ask your pharmacist to check your pulse to see if its regular or irregular.

Sounds like a great deal. Will be taking a trip to Asda tomorrow. Thanks! Hot from me. :smirk:

I set mine to automatic (1 minute) and strapped it around my genitals. Best £3.75 I've ever spent.

If you're buying a BP monitor for home use, do have a look at the British Hypertension Society recommended list of monitors as all these are clinically validated to one or more of several universally accepted protocols:

http://bhsoc.org/bp-monitors/bp-monitors/for-home-use/

(If the table doesn't load you can download a PDF of the list).

Price does not necessarily correlate with the validity of readings, as even the cheapo Lloyds Pharmacy one which sold for a tenner (now discontinued) has passed their validation. The table lists the prices as well, which is very helpful.

Interestingly, there are several Salter models that are on the list, though there's no way of finding out if this particular model is included as the model no is not given here.

Yes, and the one in the surgery is so inaccurate. I do 3 readings and none are concordant.

Never mind that funkey , maybe you should post a deal here on your time travel experience :wink: ... trip of a lifetime for some , quite literally !

my pressure is going to rise if I don't get one in passing tomorrow.

Hi, just out of interest, how did the people you came across find out they had white coat hypertension? ​

Interesting comment still?.

I've never heard of white coat hypertention myself, so new to me ...

It's a very common problem - with a lot of people just the actual process of having your blood pressure checked ironically raises your blood pressure.

Add that to the anxiety that some people have when visiting their GP and you have 'white coat syndrome'.

Ahhhhhhh, yes, yes, I hear that!, that's true enough?.

Thanx. :-)

18 quid in Asda Watford, just checked the price at the till.

​Very true.

Conversely, and maybe less well known, is also the phenomenon of masked hypertension. This is when a patient exhibits normal blood pressure during a GP measurement but is hypertensive when going about their daily business. Strange but true!

I don't think you read my comment properly. I agree that everyone should take their BP at home, the point I was making was that if it's not accurate either way it can be dangerous. You may have been in the medical profession for 35years but that doesn't mean you know anything about taking blood pressure! I have suffered high blood pressure for 25 years and for most part used a monitor at home which my doctor encourages. I usually use Omron but have tried many other makes over the years,but the last two, I had to send back as they where 15 point and 12 points reading to high on the systolic. I personally would only use a monitor that is clinically validated - this seems too cheap to be reliable in my opinion for something that is so important and described as the " the silent killer"

It is £25 elsewhere:-

http://www.salterhousewares.co.uk/salter-automatic-arm-blood-pressure-monitor.html?gclid=CjwKEAiA0fnFBRC6g8rgmICvrw0SJADx1_zA04kN8eauVCJrDnxv3l24-ax8zizA_vPNfnaRBCXmARoCBz_w_wcB

It's not this cheap normally.

Had a 24 hour blood pressure monitor fitted the other day and showed my wrist monitor to both the cardiologist and the guy who fitted the monitor. The cardiologist was quite happy my reading was pretty close to his and the guy who fitted the monitor liked the Bluetooth synch feature on my bpm. He's going to get one for himself. The days of the medical profession being disdainful of wrist monitors is long gone. I've used one for the las 15 years and have found it extremely helpful and will buy one of these Salter Bpms as a spare to my Sharon Bluetooth. Thanks OP. HOT

Just noticed its Lincoln. Handy for gooners!

Unfortunately the only Salter blood pressure monitor in my nearest was priced at £9, even checked at the till