Terminal symptoms of heart failure?
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I'm easy to feel stuffy and like to sigh. I don't want to think about anything, but I still feel very tired and tired. Occasionally I feel palpitation or heartache. But if I go to check the heart function, there is no substantial disease, but I'm really uncomfortable. I often feel sleepy and have terminal symptoms of heart failure? Now let me tell you something.
Terminal symptoms of heart failure?
Heart failure is usually manifested as frequent dry cough or chest tightness and asthma, especially when active and tired. There is also a sudden wake-up in the night, shortness of breath, forced to sit up after the symptoms gradually eased, the symptoms of heavy lying position, sitting (standing) position when the symptoms of light, and often attack at night
People with heart failure will have anorexia, abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms. In severe cases, abdominal pain and diarrhea can also be caused by ischemic spasm of gastrointestinal smooth muscle. The main symptoms of heart failure are dyspnea, wheezing, edema, etc., but sometimes other symptoms will appear
Some elderly patients with heart failure have prominent mental symptoms, such as dizziness, insomnia, irritability, hallucination, unconsciousness and even coma. This is mainly due to different degrees of cerebral arteriosclerosis and cerebral blood supply insufficiency in the elderly. During heart failure, the symptoms of cerebral ischemia are further aggravated due to the decrease of cardiac output
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Patients with severe heart failure, obvious edema or old and frail are prone to venous embolism, limb atrophy, pneumonia and bedsore. In principle, the patient should not be moved. If necessary, the sheets and clothes can only be changed gently. When the sputum is not easy to come out, the side body drainage can be used appropriately