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 PressureGauge is a tool you can use at home to help you find out the PSI (Pound per square inch) of your car tyres. It ...
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 ...
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 ...
