Edema caused by cor pulmonale, beware of heart failure

Cor pulmonale can cause respiratory failure, and respiratory failure can lead to edema. This disease must be treated actively and can better protect health. For edema caused by cor pulmonale, you can choose diet therapy. You can eat more white radish, black sesame seeds, and ginger.

1. Edema caused by cor pulmonale is caused by heart failure

Heart failure often occurs after acute respiratory tract infection, so it is often accompanied by respiratory failure. Patients experience symptoms of right heart failure such as shortness of breath, palpitations, oliguria, worsening cyanosis, upper abdominal distension and pain, loss of appetite, nausea and even vomiting. Physical examination shows distended jugular veins, increased heart rate, a gallop rhythm audible in the precordial area, or a systolic murmur caused by relative tricuspid regurgitation, which may disappear as the condition improves. Various arrhythmias may occur, especially atrial arrhythmias, hepatomegaly with tenderness, positive liver-neck reverse fluid sign, edema and ascites, and shock may occur in severe cases.

In addition, since cor pulmonale is a disease of multiple organ damage based on heart and lung lesions, severe patients may have symptoms such as renal insufficiency, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and cheek pigmentation caused by adrenal cortex insufficiency.

2. Diet therapy

⑴ Boil an appropriate amount of frosted white radish in water and drink it as tea. Radish has the effect of relieving gas, relieving cough and reducing phlegm, and is suitable for people with cor pulmonale and excessive phlegm.

⑵ Appropriate amount of ginger juice, 15 grams of southern almonds, 30 grams of walnut meat, mash them and add appropriate amount of honey, then stew them. This prescription has the effects of warming the middle and resolving phlegm, nourishing the kidney and tonifying Qi. This prescription is suitable for people with lung and kidney qi deficiency.

⑶ 15 grams of black sesame, 15 grams of ginger, and 12 grams of Trichosanthes kirilowii. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day. This prescription has the effects of moistening and clearing the lungs, warming the middle and resolving phlegm. Suitable for regular consumption by elderly patients with chronic cor pulmonale.

⑷ 6 grams of fried white mustard seeds, 9 grams of fried radish seeds, 6 grams of tangerine peel, and 6 grams of licorice. Decoction in water. Suitable for use during acute attacks of cor pulmonale.

⑸ 15 grams of laver, 50 grams of oysters, and 15 grams of polygala. Decoction in water. This prescription has the functions of removing phlegm, clearing away heat and calming the mind. Suitable for patients with severe cough at night.