The main symptom of heart failure?

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Heart failure is easy to feel stuffy, like to sigh, do not want to think about anything, but still feel very tired, very tired, occasionally feel palpitations or heartache, but if you go to check the heart function, but no substantial lesions, but really uncomfortable, ah, often sleepy, the main symptoms of heart failure? Now let me tell you something.

The main symptom 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

matters needing attention

In addition, we should pay attention to the daily care, take high pillow position sleep, serious symptoms need to pay attention to take half lying or sitting position. Patients should mainly rest in bed, do not frequent activities, quit smoking and drinking, eat less and eat more, prevent respiratory tract infection and so on.