Top 10 signs of heart failure

We’ve read many people die of heart failure and sometimes we don’t even know about the sign. Yahoo Health has give 10 top signs of heart failure for us to be alert.

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There’s top 10 signs of heart failure

1. Unexplained changes in behavior.
– Some of people who suffered with heart illness never told about their sickness. If there’s a changing habits or routine, you must notice it. The people who suffered with heart illness will reduce their activity and always feel tired. They also like to sleep in chair rather than go to bed.

2. Always Tiring easily or feeling exhaused
– It is common to many conditions but if they unable to catch one’s breath during and after exertion, it is a sign of heart failure. The sleep problem and fatigue will become a sign of the heart problem.

3. Coughing
– Coughing is one of primary symptoms of heart failure especially when there’s tinged with blood.

4. Anxiety
– Fast,recing thoughts, sweaty palms, rapid heart rate and shallow breathing become a sign of heart failure.

5. Dizziness and ligh headedness
– Feeling faint, dizzy , light headed or nausea can become some of the sign of heart failure.

6. Loss of appetite
– Loss of appetite always happen to those who suffered with heart problem. They always think of being full even not taking meal for long time. Fatigie can happened to the person, even chewing can be exhausting.

7. Heart rhythm problems.
– The heart will become more fast, irregular or pounding heartbeat. The heart tries to make up for weakness in pumping by beating more harder and faster. It will tires and can’t keep up with regular rhtyhm.

8. Clothes and shoes become tight.
– Fluid retention with swelling will become primary symptoms of heart failure but difficult to recognize. The clothes and shoes will become tighness.

9. Feeling of chest pressure
– People suffered with heart problem will feel like a pressure or heaviness in the chest. It is because fluid overload throughout the body affects both the chest cavity and lungs. It will make patient feel like drowning when drawing a breath and congestion in the chest.

10. Shortness of breath especially while sleeping or lying.
– One of the popular symptoms is always waking during the nighr or can’t breathe deeply in the morning. Feeling of compression in the chest and lungs make difficult to take a deep breath during exertion or lying down. It happen because the heart’s ability to pump is weakened, blood backs up in the blood vessels that return blood from the lungs to the heart. It cause fluid to leak into the lung and when the head is elevated, gravity helps ease blood flow to and from the lungs, reduce the feeling of breathlessness.

Source :- Yahoo Health

That’s top 10 sign of heart failure. We need to pay attention if there’s a sign to us or others and check regularly to your doctor.

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