Symptoms of heart failure?

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Heart failure is very common in life. After the emergence of this disease, the main symptom is sudden cardiac death, which will bring a great threat to the life safety of patients. Many patients lost their precious lives because of untimely treatment. So, what are the symptoms of heart failure.

Symptoms of heart failure?

Heart failure is the end stage of the development of various cardiovascular diseases, the condition is dangerous, the mortality is high, if not early identification, timely treatment, often poor prognosis. After entering the old age, due to the aging of the organs of various systems, functional decline, slow nerve reaction, and the coexistence of a variety of diseases, mutual interference, the symptoms of chronic heart failure in the elderly are not typical, and the clinical manifestations are unpredictable.

In addition to the common palpitations, precordial pain and other well-known symptoms, heart disease often has some body surface symptoms. If we pay attention to these symptoms, we can find and treat them early. Signs on the body surface include facial expression. If the skin of patients with chronic heart failure or advanced pulmonary heart disease is dark brown or dark purple, it is related to long-term hypoxia of body tissue and decline of adrenocortical function. The skin, mucous membrane and extremities were cyan purple, indicating that the heart was anoxic and the reduced blood protein in the blood increased.

Edema: heart failure edema is more common in the lower limbs, showing concave edema. Patients with serious disease will affect the whole body. Edema of the lower limbs is more common in the evening or aggravates, which can be alleviated or disappeared after a night's rest.

matters needing attention

Diet should be less greasy, more fruits and vegetables. For patients with heart failure, salt intake must be controlled. Excessive salt intake will increase fluid retention and aggravate edema, but it * s not necessary to avoid salt.