Symptoms of heart failure in the elderly

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At present, the incidence of chronic heart failure is higher and higher in our country, this disease may not be fatal, but it is like a chronic bomb lurking in the body, patients need to pay attention to their diet or mood at any time. Now I will share my understanding of heart failure with you. The main manifestations of heart failure are as follows.

Symptoms of heart failure in the elderly

Typical heart failure patients have dyspnea. After activity or lying flat at night, they have shortness of breath, chest tightness and suffocation symptoms. In severe cases, they also feel dyspnea when they rest. Some patients also have edema of lower limbs, especially in the ankle, with large liver, tenderness of upper abdomen and purple lips.

Patients with coronary heart disease should be especially alert to asymptomatic heart failure, because they can often move freely in the early stage, work and life are not affected, shortness of breath, chest tightness and suffocation appear after activities, and symptoms disappear after rest; Or at night suddenly appear suffocation, chest tightness, wake up forced to sit up, a few minutes later symptoms disappear. Because there are no symptoms during the day, it is often ignored.

Chronic heart failure patients should also pay close attention to the causes of aggravation of the disease in order to actively and effectively deal with, such as chronic heart failure caused by hypertensive heart disease, if the blood pressure is not well controlled, heart failure will certainly not be well controlled; Unhealthy diet, such as unbalanced diet, excessive salt intake; Third, all kinds of complications of heart failure, such as respiratory tract infection, arrhythmia and so on, may aggravate the condition of patients with heart failure.

matters needing attention

Patients with severe heart failure, obvious edema or old and frail are prone to venous embolism, limb atrophy, pneumonia and bedsore. In principle, the patient should not be moved. If necessary, the sheets and clothes can only be changed gently. When the sputum is not easy to come out, the side body drainage can be used appropriately.