Signs, Symptoms and Prevention Of Heart Diseases
The article is about the major signs and symptoms regarding heart diseases so that one can easily evaluate oneself and can be timely diagnosed and treated well since heart diseases are the most dangerous diseases. So the awareness about them is necessary.
The symptoms of chest discomfort e.g. constricting, squeezing , choking or knifelike feelings for an interval of 15seconds-15 minutes while doing any physical activity, emotional excitement, any other exertion or even at rest points towards Angina.
The heart disease which is most common throughout the world is Heart Attack (myocardial infarction). It is the leading cause of death. The signs and symptoms patient may experience are sweating weak and rapid pulse, swelling on the body and pulmonary congestion.
Right sided heart failure prominent features are edema(swelling) of legs when standing and in the back at sacrum region when recumbent. Spleen of a patient may get enlarged. There is accumulation of fluid in the abdomen. Fluid may also get accumulated around the lungs in pleural spaces giving the feeling of breathlessness.
Left Sided heart failure signs and symptoms include difficulty in breathing on exertion also when patient lays down (orthopnea). Thus, the orthopneic patient must sleep while sitting upright or using three or more pillows. There is a sign of swelling on the body plus the symptoms of irritability, loss of attention and restlessness.
In case of infectious diseases of heart like Infective Endocarditis patient suffers from fever which is the most consistent sign. Other may experience nonspecific fatigue, loss of weight and flulike symptoms. On auscultation with the help of stethoscope murmurs are present.
We usually hear about increase heart size~ the term cardiac hypertrophy or dilated myocardiopathy in medical language. In this disease the symptoms of breathlessness , easy fatigability, lethargy , poor capacity to do any physical work appear.
Some other signs of heart diseases like arrhythmias symptoms are either very fast or very slow heart beat.
These are some of the useful tools for monitoring one’s normal heart function and to alert the people if they are experiencing any such symptom , they should go for their check up!
Prevention of cardiac diseases can be done by changing one’s lifestyle from idle life to active life. Regular exercise, walk for 30 minutes, diet utilizing less salt and cholesterol, complete avoidance of smoking and alcohol and by maintaining ideal weight according to the height, one can be saved from the heart diseases.
In order to avoid second heart attack , one should use aspirin or other such drugs that inhibit formation of thrombi and cholesterol lowering drugs.
Person suffering from any heart disease , if going under any procedure e.g. dental , surgical or other invasive procedures can be prevented from heart infections by prophylactic use of antibiotics.