What are the precautions for heart failure?

Heart failure is a critical outcome for all types of heart disease. After aggressive treatment, the majority of patients have their heart failure under control, but their condition is not stable. The reason for this is that organic changes in the heart disease itself is not easy to eliminate, if there are triggering factors, it will take advantage of the opportunity to kill “back to the gun” —- cause heart failure recurrence. For this reason, patients in the recovery period of heart failure should pay attention to: 1, emotional: emotional tension, excitement, great joy, great sadness, etc. will give the patient a layer of shadow. Because the above situation can make sympathetic excitement, catecholamine secretion, the result makes the heart rate increase, blood pressure rise, heart failure is easy to “resurgence”. 2, diet: binge drinking and overeating is also a major enemy of recovery patients. Because the stomach is full and distended, the diaphragm can be elevated, affecting the heart and lung function, easy to prompt another attack of heart failure. The dietary principles of heart failure recovery patients should be easy to digest, light semi-liquid or soft food, and a small number of meals, and appropriate to limit sodium. 3, rest: a few patients with coronary heart disease in the recovery period, thinking that “heart failure has passed”, there will be no more problems, blindly increase the amount of activity. There are many examples of heart failure being induced and aggravated by overexertion, which accelerates the heart rate and increases oxygen consumption. In fact, although recovery patients should not be long-term bedside companions, but should also pay attention to adequate rest, according to the specific circumstances, “the combination of static and dynamic” —- such as walking, playing tai chi, etc., when the heart function is indeed restored to stability, and then participate in the work within its capabilities. 4, infection: suffer from viral or bacterial infections, can damage myocardial contractility, of which the above respiratory tract infection is the most common. Such as rheumatic activity as the main trigger for rheumatic heart disease heart failure, but also closely related to the upper respiratory tract infection. Heart patients pay attention to protect themselves and prevent various infections is crucial, once the upper respiratory tract infections and so on should be treated promptly and thoroughly. 5, medication: recovery period patients have recovered the compensatory function of the heart, but not can “rest easy” still need to follow medical advice to use drugs to maintain, such as cardiac agents, diuretics, etc.. Individual patients think they have “become a good doctor after a long time” and use medication as they wish, so that they overdose, underdose or stop medication prematurely, heart failure may come to their door.