How to measure blood pressure at home?

In home also you can measure by using manual device or electronic device.Manual device :wrapped around your upper arm. A tube attaches the cuff to a reservoir of mercury at the bottom of a vertical glass tube.Using a rubber bulb, your health care practitioner blows air into the cuff, making it tight around your arm. This pressure moves the mercury in the column--up with a heart beat and down when the heart is resting between beats.While watching the level of mercury, the practitioner uses a stethoscope to listen to your pulse while the air is being released.Blood pressure measurements are shown as two numbers and measured in levels of mercury, for example: 120/80mmHg.120 is systolic pressure, measured when the pulse is first heard.80 is diastolic or resting pressure, when the pulse is no longer heard and the mercury level drops. Electronic device is very easy to measure in home . Electronic device : Wrap the blood pressure cuff aroud the upper arm, above the bend of your elbow. Press the no/off button.wait for sometime ,heart symbol appear net to 0 in the scree & press the button ,the cuff will inflate. After a few seconds , the cuff will begin to defalte. The reading on the screen will begin to drop. When the measurment is done ,the heart symbol stops flashing . The blood pressure reading shows.

Nowadays electronic measuring instruments are used to measure the blood pressure at home.

Hi Pallavi,
As Swati suggested you can go for automatic blood pressure monitors but make sure, its is calibrated because, most of the automatic blood pressure monitors does not show reliable readings.