【Case Study】
Mr. Li sat in the corridor of the hospital with an anxious expression, looking at the lights in the operating room, and the family members around him kept comforting Mr. Li, because it was Mr. Li's lover Aunt Zhang who was being rescued in the operating room.
It is a pity that despite the doctor's best efforts, Aunt Zhang unfortunately passed away, Aunt Zhang is not very old this year, just in her early fifties, in modern age can be said to be still in the ranks of middle age, but unfortunately Aunt Zhang suffers from heart disease, and because she was not treated in time when she was young, she has developed into chronic heart failure in recent years.
Therefore, in the face of this result, everyone is a little unacceptable, why did Aunt Zhang's condition develop so quickly? Faced with the questions of his relatives, Mr. Li, who looked sad, still gave the answer: the problem lies in Aunt Zhang's two hobbies - cooking and raising flowers.
According to Mr. Li, Aunt Zhang has been obsessed with the two hobbies of cooking and raising flowers in the past two years, and she didn't particularly care about it at first, but then she overheard that these two hobbies are not friendly to heart failure patients, and then she began to pay attention to it, and found that Aunt Zhang's body did show signs of deterioration, but in the face of her own and children's admonitions, Aunt Zhang did not take it to heart, and adhered to the mentality that a wonderful day is a day, and Aunt Zhang was still addicted to it.
Until that night, Mr. Li suddenly heard Aunt Zhang lying next to him panting in his sleep, and by the time he sent Aunt Zhang to the hospital, it was already too late. So why did cooking, two hobbies that sound so good, turn out to be Aunt Zhang's talisman?
Let's take a look.
Heart failure patients love to cook into a vice? Some patients should even be careful when drinking water!
The full name of heart failure is heart failure, and from the name, we can hear that heart failure actually refers to a disease caused by impaired heart function due to various reasons, which affects the normal pumping function of the heart. In layman's terms, the heart is unable to handle its original workload, and the heart's ability to pump blood cannot keep up.
The reasons for this result can be divided into two main categories, one is the heart's own energy supply problems, that is, the source of power responsible for the heart's contraction and diastolic pumping - myocardial cells have problems, such as ischemia, hypoxia, necrosis, etc.
Another reason is that there is a problem with the workload of the heart, such as the sudden increase in the heart's pumping demand and peripheral circulatory pressure, which causes the heart to do several times more work than normal to complete the body's needs, and this is the main reason why we said that Aunt Li's cooking has become a vice in the above.
When it comes to cooking, we must think of firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea and all kinds of spices, and most of the delicacies we think of are meaty foods with both color and flavor, but unfortunately, these things need to be strictly controlled for heart failure patients.
High-oil, high-fat, high-sugar foods are naturally not much, these three high foods will greatly increase the viscosity of the blood, not only will cause the peripheral vascular resistance to increase the load of the heart, but also easily produce thrombosis, atherosclerosis and other diseases to block the blood vessels, which can be said to be the culprit of cardiovascular diseases.
The second is high salt, for patients with mild heart failure, the recommended daily salt intake content is similar to that of normal people, controlled below 5 grams; However, if it is moderate heart failure or severe heart failure, the recommended daily salt intake is less, and it is best to control it within 3 grams.
But these factors are the most frequent in cooking, just imagine a dish without sugar, salt, and oil, no matter how good the chef can't do anything.
Of course, at this time, some friends will definitely ask, I am just the most cooking, how can I hurt if I don't eat?
At first glance, this sounds reasonable, but where have you ever seen a chef who doesn't try his dishes?
If you want to cook a delicious meal, it is essential to try the dish yourself, for example, when you make a plate of braised pork, you always have to taste the fatness and texture before you can decide whether to serve it to the table, of course, this bite seems to be irrelevant in life.
But for a person who loves cooking and tries all kinds of new dishes every day, especially for a heart failure patient who needs to control his diet strictly, this small bite of the test dish has become a big problem. In particular, many patients with heart failure are very strict about food control, and even many patients with advanced heart failure need to strictly control the intake of a sip of water.
There have been cases before, a grandmother with heart failure for many years drank a large glass of water due to the hot weather, and as a result, due to a short period of replenishment of a large amount of fluid, the peripheral circulation blood volume increased, the heart load increased rapidly, and finally lost her life, not to mention these high-salt and high-fat delicacies.
Of course, there will still be people who are unwilling to mention this, after all, there is still an essential difference between cooking and eating, so let's talk about the damage caused by cooking directly to heart failure patients - kitchen fumes.
Cooking is indispensable for the production of fumes, although the number of fumes in the kitchen is much less under the effect of the range hood, but it cannot be completely avoided, especially for people who like to cook, they often use the technique of stir-frying, which produces more fumes and produces fast speeds, and many times the range hood can not be sucked away in time, so the cooks cannot avoid the inhalation of fumes.
Anyone who has cooked in the kitchen knows that when there is fumes in the kitchen, our first reaction must be sneezing, respiratory irritation, especially when there are chili peppers and spices in the pot, which is not a big deal for ordinary people, but it is dangerous for people with cardiovascular disease.
Because such stimulation will cause coughing, wheezing and other symptoms, causing violent fluctuations in breathing, it is likely to become the trigger for cardiovascular disease attacks, which is similar to the principle of mood swings.
In addition, the oil smoke produced by cooking is also a kind of damage to the cardiovascular system, these gases contain a large number of particulate matter and organic volatile substances, which will reduce the elasticity of blood vessels, increase blood viscosity, and induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
How can patients with heart failure who have poor heart function cook in such an environment every day, and from time to time taste some high-salt and high-fat foods that they need to strictly control?
Raising flowers has become a life-threatening talisman, and patients with heart failure must pay attention to these matters
After talking about cooking, let's talk about another hobby mentioned by Mr. Li above - raising flowers, in everyone's impression, raising flowers seems to be two things that can't be beaten together with heart failure, so why does Mr. Li say that it is the hobby of raising flowers that hurt Aunt Zhang?
As we said above, the causes of heart failure can be roughly divided into two categories, and the intake of high-oil and high-fat foods caused by cooking above increases the load on the heart.
Isn't raising flowers a thing to cultivate sentiment? Some people may react quickly and wonder if it is a competition between green plants and people for oxygen? But is this really the case?
The reaction of this group of people is not completely unfounded, although green plants produce oxygen, which is common knowledge that everyone knows, but in fact the respiration of plants is divided into two types: during the day, plants photosynthesize under the action of sunlight to fix carbon and release oxygen; When the night comes, the photosynthesis of plants disappears, and the plants are no longer oxygen producers, but oxygen consumers.
However, there is no need to worry about the disadvantages of heart failure patients because of this factor; Compared with humans, this effect of plants has little effect, and the consumption of plants is often negligible compared to the oxygen consumption of humans.
So, back to the original point, raising flowers, why did this matter become Aunt Zhang's "life talisman"?
The choice of flowers is very knowledgeable, many people choose domestic flowers often only pay attention to whether they are beautiful or whether they have a floral fragrance, but in fact, this selection method is not accurate, and sometimes even choose flowers that are harmful to the body.
For example, many people like lilies, although they smell good and the flowers are also very good-looking, but the fragrance of lilies will have an impact on the nerves at night, which is easy to make people feel anxious and irritable and affect sleep, and pollen can easily cause allergies and respiratory irritation, so it is not suitable for cultivation at home, and patients with heart failure should pay attention.
Although Aunt Zhang did not raise lilies, she placed a pot of evening primrose in the bedroom, and although this flower is famous, it must not be taken home! Because nightshade produces a lot of harmful gases at night, especially for people with cardiovascular diseases, it is easy to cause chest tightness, dizziness and even poisoning at night! It can be said that Aunt Zhang's illness is inexcusable for this pot of nightshade.
In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to the need not to choose to spray perfume on the flowers for the sake of good smell, many people do not know, so they buy perfume and spray it on the flowers under the bewitchment of unscrupulous merchants, and feel that the fragrance of flowers at home can overflow. But in fact, this kind of industrial flavor smells too much and is very harmful to the body, especially for patients, which will not only irritate the respiratory tract but also easily aggravate the probability of disease.
Do you now know why cooking and raising flowers are called "vices" in some cases for people with heart failure?
Finally, I would like to remind you once again that patients with heart failure need to pay attention to many things in their lives due to the disease, especially the precautions explained by the attending doctor when they are discharged from the hospital, and communicate with the attending doctor in time if they have any questions in the future; It is possible that what you think is just a small thing, but it becomes a "big pusher" to harm your body!
Bibliography:
[1] Li Zhengchun. "How to care for patients with heart failure, are there any dietary contraindications".2022.11.20.
[2] Yao Yaqin. "Five Principles of Diet for Heart Failure Patients".2019.10.16.
[3] ZHANG Xue. 《Daily Precautions for Heart Failure Patients》.2023.05.20.
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