Congestive Heart Failure Is There A Cure?
There is no cure for congestive heart failure, but there are things that you can do to help prolong your life and protect your heart from further damage. Treatment is a matter of changing your lifestyle and drug therapy, which will change your quality of life. The breakthrough in medical treatment for coronary heart disease has grown exponentially over the last 20 years.
Lifestyle changes are the same, quit smoking, losing excess weight, drinking less alcohol, and eating healthy low saturated fat and low salt foods. Most patients will find it helpful if they take regular exercise so don’t forget to include that. You would do well to take this advice, but one of the most important aspects is the correct medication. This is where your physician is very important, do not attempt to try to prescribe your own medicines. The physician is well equipped to provide you with the proper medical treatment.
Your heart can malfunction in many different ways just like other parts of your body. That is why we should trust the cardiologist a specialist in the medical field. One of the most common medicines prescribed for patients is a beta-blocker. Noradrenalin is a hormone produced by the body and is counteracted by beta blockers, they help to reduce the heart rate which counteracts this hormone. A diuretic drug can help to reduce fluid retention, and or high blood pressure, but some of the side effects can be joint pains, muscle cramps and a build up of potassium. If you are using a diuretic drug then let your doctor know right away if you feel any side effects.
This is just an example of the drugs used in the medical field that can help prevent heart failure. There are other treatments that doctors use that are just as valuable. Congestive heart failure can be extreme, that is why doctors have been experimenting with heart transplants and mechanical pumps, which are attached to the heart. Some US medical centers offer other procedures for severe heart failure. This procedure, called cardiomyoplasty, involves detaching one end of a muscle in the back, wrapping it around the heart, and then suturing the muscle to the heart. Back muscle contracts and pump’s blood from the heart by implanting an electrical stimulator.
Thre are other procedures that can help extend and improve the lives of people with congestive heart failure, this surgical procedure is called mitral valve repair. This procedure aims to correct leaky valves resulting from cardiomyopathy, or heart muscle disease, by surgically inserting a flexible annuloplasty ring at the mitral valve opening.
The medical field has made great strides in medicines and in surgical procedures that greatly increase our quality of life. There are things that you can do to help your heart live longer, small things like a healthy diet and specialized exercises which can help improve your quality of life, these are just a few of the things that’s the medical field has been experimenting with. It’s your heart after all, so now it’s up to you.
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