Cardiologists tell their patients (and not only): heart failure, which all so afraid of - not a disease "in itself", but rather a symptom that indicates the existing problems with the body, that is, heart. Moreover, a complex syndrome comprising a number of features. What? Let's investigate.
Cardiac insufficiency can be of 2 types: in one case, the heart may be weak and just did not cope with pumping blood, and in the other - it does not relax and therefore does not fill properly blood. In this case, heart failure - a gradual process rather than an instant, as many think. Symptoms worse over time, and this failure begins to have a negative effect on the body as a whole, because the blood with oxygen requires each agency.
Moreover, heart failure is classified into a left ventricular and right ventricular. In the first case, the heart enters the blood from the lungs, oxygen-rich, but the body is not able to send it further - on the body. As a result, the blood fills the lungs, zastaivayas there. And it can happen even swelling. In the second case, the heart returns venous blood to the lungs but it hits hard, zastaivayas in the legs or abdomen (and there are also very likely to dangerous swelling).
Three obvious symptoms of heart failure
1. Dyspnea. When the blood fills the lungs, breathing often have. And there is a feeling that the air is not enough.
2. orthopnea. This is the same shortness of breath, but it appears when the patient is lying. In this situation the bottom blood to the heart replenished easily, but there is a weak left ventricle to pump it simply can not. Light again overcrowded, there is shortness of breath. The man simply can not lie, he chokes. Pillow puts higher and higher, until it begins to sleep sitting up.
3. Bendopnoe. Shortness of breath, too, appearing almost as soon as the patient is bent. For example, sitting on a stool and putting on socks / tying shoelaces or picking up something from the floor. This is because more blood is squeezed out when the body is bent to the heart, and it being a weak, this can not cope.
4. Swelling. When blood stasis, the liquid part of it may move in the fabric, which swell. This usually occurs in the legs and / or abdomen.
It happens that water in tissues throughout the body is delayed, it is difficult to observe directly. The rescue comes the frequent weighing. If the patient notices that for a couple of days suddenly gained a few kilos - rather, it is water and not fat.
Circulatory disorders: Symptoms
1. Weakness, fatigue. Bad blood flowing to the muscles, they do not get oxygen, and as a result of slack.
2. Pale and cold extremities. When lack of oxygen the body in the first place aims to provide them with vital organs. And least of all falls in the hands and feet, and skin blood.
3. Dizziness, drowsiness, memory problems. All this is directly related to a lack of cerebral circulation.
Prevention of heart failure
Treat this condition is difficult. In a hospital setting still somehow manages, but at home the patient is getting worse and worse. Therefore it is better to prevent the development of such a failure. So, at least, treat the causes, often its cause: diabetes, high the AD, a heart attack (the consequences). In addition, all of the above, you can simply avoid, keeping under control the risk factors.
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