What should patients with valvular heart disease pay attention to

In addition to following the doctor's treatment and recommendations, patients with valvular heart disease should also pay attention to care and maintenance in their daily lives. Taking some anti-rheumatic drugs correctly and strengthening physical exercise can improve disease resistance, which is also the fundamental way to prevent these diseases.

1. Family care

Rheumatic valvular heart disease has been diagnosed and should be treated in hospital. If there is no complications such as rheumatic activity, heart failure, subacute heart failure, and subacute bacterial endocarditis, home care can also be carried out under the guidance of a physician.

(II) Notes

⒈ Taking anti-rheumatic drugs may cause gastrointestinal reactions such as nausea, vomiting, and stomach pain in patients. The drugs should be given between meals or 3 tablets of Weishuping should be taken at the same time.

⒉ When taking digitalis-based cardiotonic drugs, you should take them under the guidance of a physician. If you experience anorexia during medication, you should stop taking the drugs immediately and report to your physician. Once digitalis poisoning is confirmed, 10 ml of 10% potassium chloride solution should be taken 3 times a day. If there are frequent ventricular premature beats, use 0.1 g of phenytoin sodium, injected intramuscularly or orally 3 times a day.

⒊ During the treatment and rehabilitation process, if heart failure, severe arrhythmia, subacute bacterial endocarditis (fever of unknown cause, progressive anemia, hematuria, splenomegaly and skin hemorrhages, you should pay attention to the occurrence of this disease), arterial embolism (atrial thrombus detachment, blocking the cerebral artery can cause hemiplegia; blocking the pulmonary artery can cause chest pain, dyspnea and hemoptysis; blocking the renal artery can cause hematuria, etc.) occurs, you should be sent to the hospital for treatment in time.

3. Prevention knowledge

This disease is the consequence of rheumatism. Actively preventing type alpha hemolytic streptococcal infection is the key to preventing this disease. Strengthening physical exercise and enhancing the body's disease resistance also plays an important preventive role. Active and effective treatment of streptococcal infections, such as radical cure of chronic lesions such as tonsillitis, dental caries and sinusitis, can prevent and reduce the occurrence of this disease.