Heart Failure Dietary Considerations and Contraindications

Heart failure is heart failure, heart failure is a long and even lifelong disease, in the daily diet need to pay attention to low-salt diet, control the amount of liquid intake, eat less and more meals. 1. Low-salt diet: Heart failure patients need to pay attention to a low-salt diet, because salt intake will lead to water retention in the body, thus increasing the burden on the heart. No more than 3 grams of salt should be used in cooking food per day, and foods with high salt content such as bacon, sausage, brined meat and salted fish should be avoided as much as possible. 2. Control the amount of liquid intake: according to the condition of heart failure patients, appropriate water to reduce the burden on the heart, daily liquid intake control in 1500 ~ 2000ml, avoid drinking strong tea and coffee, to prevent the heart rate is too fast to increase the heart’s oxygen consumption. 3. Eat less, eat more: heart failure patients should not eat too much to avoid increasing the burden on the heart, you can eat 4 to 5 meals a day, each time to eat seven or eight minutes full. In addition to the above precautions, heart failure patients mostly have digestive stasis, weak digestive function, should not eat hard food. In addition to dietary precautions, heart failure patients need to go to the hospital regularly for follow-ups and monitoring of changes in their conditions.