Heart failure is a heart disease with a high frequency of attacks in some middle-aged and elderly people in recent years, and it is mainly a heart disease caused by abnormal contraction of heart function. In general, if a patient has heart failure, most patients will have a variety of clinical manifestations such as irritability, loss of appetite, chest pain, or chest tightness. There are many factors that cause heart failure in the human body, according to clinical studies, such as common hypertension, congenital heart disease and other diseases may cause heart failure.
Therefore, for people suffering from this series of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, they must be vigilant against heart failure on weekdays. In fact, heart failure usually has some warning information at the time of attack.
So, if heart failure comes, what are the general signs of the body? The doctor said: These three symptoms may be signs of heart failure attacks, and you need to be vigilant.
1. Edema of the lower limbs
According to clinical studies, lower limb edema is the most typical clinical manifestation of heart failure patients before the onset of heart failure. The main reason why patients will have such symptoms is that heart failure will affect the function of the patient's heart, so that the contractile function of the heart is weakened, resulting in a decrease in the heart's pumping ability.
We all know that the legs and feet are often at the end of the entire blood circulation, if there is a problem with the blood supply to the heart, then it will inevitably lead to the patient's legs and feet not getting sufficient blood and oxygen supply, when the legs and feet have severe ischemia or hypoxia, it will easily cause edema in the lower limbs.
Therefore, for people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, if they find that they have frequent edema of the lower limbs recently, and it is difficult to be relieved, then they need to seek medical attention in time to check their heart function, which may be a signal before the onset of heart failure.
2. Sudden weight gain
For middle-aged and elderly patients, if there is a sudden weight gain in a short period of time under the condition of maintaining good daily habits, and accompanied by different degrees of abdominal distension, abdominal pain and other phenomena, then it is necessary to be vigilant, if this symptom lasts for a long time, and the weight also shows a trend of rising, then this may be a signal before the onset of heart failure, it is recommended that it is best to go to the hospital as soon as possible to check the heart function, so as not to cause more serious consequences, endangering the patient's life safety and health.
This is mainly because, although heart failure is a symptom caused by the weakening of heart function, the weakening of heart function will inevitably lead to the obstruction of the entire blood circulation of the human body, and when the body's digestive organs do not get sufficient blood oxygen supply, its function will continue to decline, resulting in the patient's intake of food is difficult to be digested, absorbed and metabolized, and this will also make the patient have a sudden weight gain in a short period of time.
3. Difficulty breathing
Many people with heart failure experience varying degrees of dyspnea before the onset of heart failure. Therefore, if the patient often has shortness of breath and difficulty breathing in the absence of asthma and has not done any strenuous exercise, it is necessary to be vigilant against heart failure.
For people with heart failure, due to the weakening of heart function, the blood output of heart failure patients will decrease, which will not only lead to insufficient blood supply to the brain, so that patients have symptoms such as general fatigue, drowsiness or difficulty breathing after appropriate activities, and with the aggravation of heart failure, heart failure patients will also have a decline in physical strength and poor physical fitness.
Therefore, for some elderly middle-aged and elderly people, as well as people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, if the above three symptoms often occur, then it is necessary to be vigilant, which may be a signal of heart failure attack, and it is necessary to seek medical examination in time to prevent heart failure.