"When my father died of heart failure, we all regretted why we didn't find out earlier."
At the age of 50, Chen Mou's (pseudonym) father was diagnosed with heart failure, and when he was taken to the hospital, his heart was already very weak, and he died after a few days of hospitalization.
After the death of Old Chen, Xiao Chen regretted it very much, in fact, his father had symptoms on his body before he was diagnosed with heart failure. But the Xiao Chen family did not take it seriously, the father would be out of breath when he was a little active, often felt breathless, coughed, etc., they only thought that it was a normal manifestation of aging.
Until one day, the father suddenly could not breathe for a long time and could not recover, which made it panic and rushed to send his father to the hospital, but the time was too late...
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When it comes to heart failure, many people are relatively unfamiliar, thinking that people with congenital heart disease can get it, and the progress is not so fast, it will not kill people, but heart failure is a serious disease, even more serious than some cancers.
Our heart is like a "water pump" that pumps out 5-6 liters of blood every minute and then transports it through the arteries to various organs throughout the body. Heart failure refers to the decline of the heart's pumping function, like a "leather ball" with reduced elasticity, and the heart cannot pump blood normally to meet the metabolic needs of the body.
Many people do not understand heart failure, but the harm is very large. In the early stages of heart failure, many people will think that this is a normal aging phenomenon with the Xiao Chen family, and often wait until some urgent symptoms appear to seek medical treatment.
But the latest epidemiological data show that the 5-year mortality rate of heart failure has reached 50%, which is higher than the harm of some malignant tumors!
Academician Gao Runlin and Professor Wang Zengwu of the Chinese Medical College once published the results of the survey on Chinese heart failure patients in the European Journal of Heart Failure, and the weighted heart failure prevalence rate of people over 35 years old in China is 1.3%, that is to say, there are about 13.7 million patients in China. Compared to fifteen years ago, this data represents a significant increase of 44 per cent, an increase of approximately half of the cases.
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-Walking breathlessly
The most common symptom in patients with heart failure is dyspnea, which can occur early in the disease after exercise or activity.
If the patient is not treated in time, as the condition continues to develop, the patient's inactivity will also have difficulty breathing, and he often holds his breath and wakes up in his sleep at night, and even when he sits quietly, he cannot breathe normally, which seriously affects daily life and even "chokes to death".
- Edema of the lower extremities
Patients with heart failure can not pump blood normally, which will affect the systemic circulation, so that the systemic circulation congestion, it will lead to water and sodium retention in the body, which will manifest as edema of both lower limbs. At this time, it shows that the heart failure has reached a more serious situation, and it must be dealt with in a timely manner.
In addition, kidney disease may also cause lower extremity edema, so how do we distinguish it?
Edema caused by kidney problems usually occurs in the eyelids and face, and heart failure is due to the inability to adequately supply blood to the ends of the limbs, so the first site of edema should be the low-hanging end of the lower limbs.
In addition, there are obvious differences in the time point of the two, the edema caused by kidney disease is more obvious in the morning, and the heart failure is generally caused in the afternoon and evening.
- Weakness of the limbs
The heart's ability to pump blood is reduced, which can cause various organs to be affected, resulting in a series of symptoms such as fatigue, mental poorness and loss of appetite, which are easily confused with some other diseases.
Therefore, if it is only the weakness of the limbs, if you want to diagnose heart failure, you must generally combine the medical history, imaging tests, etc.
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How should we prevent heart failure so severely?
With age, the function of the heart will decline, in other words, if there is no disease, the human heart will one day fail, so the most recommended measure to prevent heart failure is regular physical examination.
We recommend regularly checking your heart rate after age 40, said Vanessa M. Thompson, an associate professor of medicine and biostatistics at Boston University. Dr. Zanzacches, the study shows that at age 4O, the incidence of heart failure in men and women is 20%.
In addition, we must pay attention to the control of the occurrence of chronic diseases, clinical studies have shown that high blood lipids, hypertension, high blood sugar and other factors are closely related to heart failure, clinical heart failure of about 50% of patients have a history of hypertension, so the control of three highs is one of the most important measures to prevent heart failure.
In addition, the daily diet also needs to pay attention to less oil and less salt. Excessive intake of high-fat foods can lead to excess body fat, which increases the burden on the heart. Excessive salt intake can cause fluid retention, and edema caused by heart failure becomes more and more severe, and can put a lot of pressure on the kidneys.
In addition, it is recommended to exercise in moderation, exercise can increase the vitality of the heart, delay the aging of the heart, and thus prevent the occurrence of heart failure.
Heart failure is very common in middle-aged and elderly people, and early symptoms are easy to ignore! Once abnormal phenomena are found in life, you must seek medical treatment in time. #39 Health SuperGroup ##清风计划 #
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