Fluid retention is a clinical manifestation of patients with multiple organ failure and acute myocardial infarction, among others. Heart failure is also known as congestive heart failure or cardiac insufficiency. The heart is weakened by disease, overwork, and blood expulsion to the extent that the amount of blood expelled cannot meet the metabolic needs of organs and tissues. The main symptoms are dyspnea, wheezing, and edema. Due to weakened myocardial contractility cardiac blood excretion decreases to the point that the amount of tissue and organ perfusion is inadequate while manifestations of stasis in the pulmonary or and body circulation occur.
How to prevent fluid retention in life
1. Prevention of cold and flu
During the cold and flu season or in case of sudden climate change, patients should go out less, wear masks and add clothes appropriately, and go to less crowded places. Patients should also avoid going to crowded places. If respiratory infection occurs, it is very easy for the condition to deteriorate sharply.
2, moderate activity
Do some physical activities that you can do, but do not overdo it, or participate in more strenuous activities, in order to avoid sudden aggravation of heart failure.
3.Eating should be light and less salt
Diet should be less oily, more vegetables and fruits. For patients who have already developed heart failure, salt intake must be controlled. Excessive salt intake will aggravate fluid retention and edema, but it is not necessary to completely eliminate salt.
4.Healthy lifestyle
Be sure to quit smoking, quit drinking, keep a balanced mind, do not let your emotions fluctuate too much, and also ensure sufficient sleep.
P.S. Early signs of heart failure in the elderly
Difficulty in breathing when working or walking up stairs;
Sudden difficulty in breathing when sleeping, but it improves when sitting up;
Swelling of the lower limbs and decrease in urine output;
Cough, phlegm, panic and breathlessness without cold;
Insomnia, fatigue, loss of appetite;
The disease worsens with twitching of the limbs, apnea, cyanosis, but returns to normal immediately after the attack;
Decreased blood pressure, increased heart rate, pale face, cold and wet skin, irritability;
Extreme difficulty in breathing, choking sensation, coughing and coughing up a lot of pink foamy sputum.
If 1-5 of the above symptoms can be matched, it is a typical manifestation of early heart failure and should be noticed; if 6 of them can be matched, it is cardiac syncope caused by cerebral ischemia; if all of them are present, it is a manifestation of acute pulmonary edema.