How long can you live if your heart becomes bigger

An enlarged heart is quite harmful to health. When such a symptom occurs, conservative treatment is generally adopted, which can control the disease and improve the patient's quality of life. As for how long the patient can live with an enlarged heart, it depends on the patient's own quality and the severity of the disease. It is also related to whether the usual treatment and conditioning is appropriate. Patients should maintain a good attitude, especially get enough rest and pay attention to diet and health care, which will help alleviate the condition.

1. Maintain a good mood

Patients diagnosed with heart enlargement should maintain a good mood, avoid fatigue, supplement nutrition, pay attention to preventing respiratory infections, quit smoking and drinking, go to the hospital for regular checkups, protect or improve heart function, and improve quality of life.

2. Take a longer rest

If you experience symptoms such as palpitations, shortness of breath, chest tightness, fatigue, etc., you should go to the hospital immediately. Female patients should not become pregnant. Once heart failure occurs, patients should rest for a long time and eat a low-salt diet. If severe breathing difficulties occur, which worsens when lying down, and the patient sweats profusely, it may be a case of severe heart failure. The patient should be placed in a sitting or semi-sitting position, and a call should be made to the medical emergency center for help, or the patient should be sent to a nearby hospital by the safest, smoothest, and fastest means of transportation.

3. Healthy diet

Upper respiratory tract infection is the most common cause of worsening heart enlargement, so it is particularly important to prevent colds, especially influenza. It has been raining for days and the body feels damp and cold, so it is even more necessary to keep warm in time. In normal times, you should combine work and rest. Adequate rest can reduce the burden on the heart and promote myocardial recovery. Long-term drinkers must quit drinking. If they drink again after recovery from treatment, relapse will be more difficult to treat. When you have congestive heart failure, in addition to reasonably restricting activity, you should also strictly limit your sodium intake. The standard for a low-salt diet is to control the daily salt intake to less than 5 grams, and for those with severe conditions, to less than 1 gram per day.

4. Strengthen drug treatment

The cause of this disease is unknown. The active phase mainly includes effective control of heart failure and arrhythmias. The remission phase (no active shortness of breath) focuses on improving the patient's quality of life and survival rate. Treatment can be achieved by using Rongxin Pills, Shengui Capsules combined with beta-receptor blockers, ACEI or ARB and myocardial nutritional drugs.

The enlarged left atrium and left ventricle may be related to mitral valve disease. At the same time, hypertension can also cause the enlargement of the left ventricle. Mitral valve regurgitation can cause the volume load of the left atrium to increase. This will lead to the enlargement of the left atrium for a long time. It is recommended to do a cardiac ultrasound to see whether the replaced mitral valve is normal. At the same time, if you have high blood pressure, you must control it with medication, eat a low-salt diet, and check your heart function regularly in the future. You should take anticoagulants. If so, you should check the coagulation mechanism regularly.