Congestive Heart Failure Or CHF

Congestive heart failure, also known as CHF or heart failure transpires when your heart muscle doesn’t pump blood as well as it should, various conditions like high blood pressure, escape your heart to weak or stiff to fill and pump correctly. Heart failure is caused by many ways one of which includes, coronary artery disease, a disease of the arteries to supply blood and oxygen to the heart, causes decreased blood flow to the heart muscle. CHF is also caused by a heart attack which, happens when a coronary artery suddenly becomes jammed, stopping the stream of blood to the heart. Furthermore cardiomyopathy, damage to the heart muscle from drug and or alcohol abuse causes heart failure, myocarditis which is an inflammation of the heart muscle
Sleep apnea is another risk that is the incapability to breathe properly while you sleep at night results in low blood oxygen quantity and an increased rate of unusual heart rhythms, congenital heart defects that are people who originated with heart failure at birth with structural heart defects. People with valvular heart disease is another higher risk of CHF and is characterized by damage to or a defect in one of the four heart valves: the mitral, aortic, tricuspid or pulmonary. The mitral and tricuspid valves control the flow of blood between the atria and the ventricles (the upper and lower chambers of the
Yet with treatment, signs and symptoms of heart failure can decrease, and the heart sometimes becomes stronger, reducing your chance of dying early. Doctors will and should prescribe you medications similarly to, beta blockers that serves as a drug that not only slows your heart rate and reduces blood pressure but, also limits some of the damage being inflicted to your heart. Inotropes, which are hypodermic medications used in people with severe heart failure in the hospital to improve heart pumping function and maintain blood pressure. Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, that are drugs who help people with systolic heart failure to live longer and feel better because they widen blood vessels to lower blood pressure.
Although, the key to preventing heart failure or any disease similar to it, is to not smoke, controlling high blood pressure and diabetes, staying physically active, eating healthy foods, stabilizing a health weight, reducing and managing stress, check your legs, ankles, and feet for swelling daily, restrict salt in your diet, limit alcohol and fluids, sleep comfortably, and get