Symptoms and signs of heart failure

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Heart failure, also known as "myocardial failure", refers to that the heart can not beat out the blood supply commensurate with venous return and body tissue metabolism. Often caused by a variety of diseases, myocardial contractility is weakened, so that the blood output of the heart is reduced, not enough to meet the needs of the body, and thus produce a series of symptoms and signs. Symptoms and signs of heart failure? Let's talk about it

Symptoms and signs of heart failure

Dyspnea: Generally speaking, the lighter symptoms are dyspnea and suffocation after going upstairs, and then can't meet the needs of normal daily life. With the aggravation of the disease, the lighter physical labor can cause dyspnea, and the more serious can also occur when resting,

The more serious patients will have symptoms of pulmonary congestion. Some patients are sweating profusely, mentally mania, shortness of breath, cough with pink foam sputum. There may be hypoxemia in blood gas examination, ground glass shadow and pleural effusion in chest radiograph, wheezing and moist rale in physical examination.

Paroxysmal dyspnea at night is a typical manifestation of the early stage of left heart failure. It often occurs during sleep. When the patient is asleep, he suddenly feels suffocated, and he is forced to sit up and breathe quickly. When he is attacked, he can appear cyanosis, cold sweat, pink phlegm phlegm, lung wheezing, and lung wet rales. This is called cardiac asthma.

matters needing attention

Do some physical activities as much as you can, but don't do too much or too much, and don't take part in more violent activities, so as to avoid heart failure suddenly aggravating. 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.