Rheumatic heart disease often leaves its roots because of a cold. If you have shortness of breath when you perform physical activities, you must not compare with your own body before and after condition, but with your peers, and if you are more prone to palpitations and chest tightness compared to your peers, you should seek medical help in time. Tonsil inflammation can lead to rheumatic heart disease There are still many misconceptions about rheumatic heart disease. Many people generally believe that it is not the case that if you have no previous history of cardiovascular disease, you will not get rheumatic heart disease. The experts at the Asian Heart Hospital in Wuhan explain that if you have had acute streptococcal infections such as scarlet fever, acute tonsillitis, pharyngitis, otitis media and lymphadenitis, it is very easy to get rheumatic heart disease, and especially in young and middle-aged people. Early detection and early treatment If the following phenomena occur in daily life, you should be alert and seek medical attention in order to detect wind heart disease at an early stage. Sudden onset of pain behind the sternum with sweating during exertion or stress. Panic, shortness of breath, fatigue and dyspnea during physical activity. Palpitations and chest pain during a full meal, cold, or watching a thrilling movie Feel palpitations, chest tightness, breathlessness and shortness of breath more easily than you used to, especially in your own age, when you are in a public place or meeting place, or when going upstairs or climbing a mountain. When you sleep at night with a low pillow, you feel that you are holding your breath and need to lie on a high pillow. Discomfort such as palpitations, chest tightness or chest pain during sexual intercourse. Repeated irregular, rapid or slow pulse. It is especially important to seek medical attention in a timely manner, and doctors can treat the condition through surgery and other methods. If you do not seek medical attention in time, the consequences can be unimaginable. The first thing you should do is to prevent rheumatic fever. Don’t be frightened by rheumatic heart disease, but it can be prevented reasonably actively. For the prevention of wind heart disease, Wuhan Asian Heart Hospital experts gave advice. The prevention of rheumatic heart disease should first focus on preventing the occurrence of rheumatic fever so that there is no basis for the onset of heart valve disease at all. Once valve damage has developed, rheumatic activity should still be actively controlled and prevented to control symptoms and improve cardiac function to avoid aggravation of the lesion. Any one of the following six conditions, it is likely that you have rheumatic heart disease. 1.Heart panic, shortness of breath, fatigue and difficulty in breathing when performing physical activities. 2.Heart palpitations and chest pain when having a full meal, being cold, or watching a thrilling movie. 3.Palpitations, chest tightness, breathlessness and shortness of breath in public or in a meeting place, or when going upstairs or climbing a mountain, more easily than one’s previous especially in the same age. 4. When sleeping at night with a low pillow, I feel that I am holding my breath and need to lie on a high pillow. When I wake up suddenly during a deep sleep or a nightmare, I feel palpitations, chest tightness and breathlessness and need to sit up to get better. 5.Feeling discomfort such as palpitations, chest tightness or chest pain during sexual intercourse. 6.Recurring irregular, too fast or too slow pulse.