Rheumatoid heart disease symptoms?
summary
Rheumatic heart disease referred to as rheumatic heart disease, because the disease is often complications, involving the heart valve caused by heart valve disease. One or more of the mitral, tricuspid and aortic valves showed stenosis and / or insufficiency. Now let's learn about the symptoms of rheumatoid heart disease? It's a matter of time.
Rheumatoid heart disease symptoms?
First, stenosis or incompetence often exist at the same time in clinic, but it is mainly one kind. At the early stage of the disease, there were no obvious symptoms. Later, they were characterized by palpitation, shortness of breath, asthenia, cough, edema of the lower extremities, cough, pink foam sputum and other cardiac decompensation.
Second: often feel flustered, shortness of breath, fatigue, chest tightness and dyspnea, fatigue, lazy speech. When tired or nervous, the precordial area, sternal or left arm radiation pain, accompanied by sweating. If you walk a little longer or faster, you will feel chest tightness, asthma and rapid heartbeat.
Third: climbing stairs or doing some easy work, I feel very tired and need to rest many times. When I get up in the morning, I feel very uncomfortable sitting up. There are palpitations, chest and back distension and pain, and even cold sweat when full meal, cold, emotional excitement. When the pillow is low at night, it is difficult to feel suffocated and uncomfortable, so the pillow should be padded up, and even can not lie flat; Wake up in a dream, feel palpitations, chest tightness, need to sit up to get better. In public places or meetings, it is especially easy to feel palpitations, chest tightness and poor breathing.
matters needing attention
1. Prevention and treatment of streptococcal infection because rheumatic heart disease is mainly caused by streptococcal infection, so we should pay attention to the living environment health, for scarlet fever, acute tonsillitis, pharyngitis, otitis media and lymphadenitis and other acute streptococcal infection, you should cooperate with the doctor for active and thorough treatment, do not terminate the treatment on your own. Because lack of success will increase the chance of recurrence of rheumatic fever, which will undoubtedly aggravate the damage to the heart valve. 2. The combination of work and rest, proper exercise and physical labor can increase the compensatory ability of the heart. Patients without dyspnea and other symptoms can work and live as usual, but violent exercise and heavy physical labor should be avoided. Rest can reduce the burden of the heart, is a necessary measure to prevent and treat the disease, patients with disease attack according to the symptoms and doctor's advice, varying degrees of physical activity restrictions, or even completely bedridden, until the heart function improved.