Late symptoms of heart failure and renal failure

For patients with renal failure, some complications often occur in the late stage, and the possibility of heart failure is also relatively high. Therefore, for such patients, the symptoms in the late stage are also relatively obvious, and often lead to combined respiratory tract infections. In other words, patients are often affected by some colds, which will lead to more serious conditions, easily leading to a vicious circle, posing a great threat to the patient's life safety.

Late symptoms of heart failure and renal failure

Patients with heart failure often have respiratory infections, especially during influenza season. Clinically, signs of infection such as fever and leukocytosis are often not obvious. Lung infection and left ventricular failure can aggravate each other, and cough, sputum, and asthma are often shared by both. Atrial fibrillation combined with rapid ventricular rate often suddenly induces heart failure or even pulmonary edema. Heart failure can also induce atrial fibrillation due to increased atrial pressure. The two are often causal, forming a vicious cycle.

If those wastes cannot be excreted from the human body by the kidneys, they will travel throughout the body with the blood. Once they enter the digestive tract, the gastrointestinal mucosa will be irritated and cause anorexia, upper abdominal discomfort, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and the oral mucosa will also ulcerate. The patient may even have a urine smell in his mouth.

Once the waste is discharged through the respiratory tract, it may lead to uremic bronchitis, pleurisy, pneumonia, etc. If these wastes enter the cardiovascular system, symptoms such as hypertension, heart failure, and pericarditis will appear. Among them, urea stimulation of the pericardium can cause uremic pericarditis.

In addition, if waste is discharged through the sweat glands of the skin, uremic frost will appear on the patient's skin. What is particularly serious is that toxic substances damage the nervous system, causing patients to experience mental depression, fatigue, numbness of the limbs, memory loss, itchy skin, dizziness and headache. In more serious cases, patients may experience drowsiness or irritability, convulsions, seizures, coma and other symptoms, which can be life-threatening if not handled with care.

Home care for heart failure

1. Reduce the predisposing factors. Infection is a common cause of heart failure. Some weak patients have atypical symptoms when infected, and their body temperature is not very high. They only show symptoms such as loss of appetite and fatigue. The changes in the condition should be closely observed to prevent the occurrence of heart failure.

2. Reasonable use of glutinous food: glutinous food should be used strictly according to the doctor's instructions. Do not change or stop using glutinous food on your own to avoid serious consequences. You should also be familiar with the toxic and side effects of commonly used foods, which will help to detect adverse reactions early, seek medical treatment early, and deal with them early.

3. Reasonable rest. Rest is an important way to reduce the burden on the heart. It can significantly reduce the body's oxygen consumption. In the acute phase and severe heart failure, you should stay in bed to rest. After your heart function improves, you should get out of bed and do some qigong, walking, tai chi and other activities. But you should control the amount of activity. When the pulse is >110 beats/min, or 20 beats/min faster than resting, or you feel shortness of breath, palpitations, angina attacks or abnormal beats, you should stop the activity and rest.

4. Reasonable diet Diet plays an important role in the rehabilitation of heart failure. Its principle is low sodium, low calories, light and easy to digest, sufficient carbohydrates, vitamins, inorganic salts, and moderate abstinence from smoking, fat, and alcohol. You should also eat small meals frequently, because full meals can induce or aggravate heart failure.

5. Skin care: Patients with chronic heart failure are often forced to lie on the right side, so the skin care of the right bony protrusion should be strengthened to prevent bedsores. The patient can be turned over and massaged regularly, and the care movements should be gentle to prevent skin abrasions. The skin of those with severe edema should be protected more effectively.