Heart disease is a serious disease. People with heart disease usually have a lot to pay attention to. Exercise has many benefits for our bodies, but many patients with heart failure or heart disease dare not exercise. , strenuous exercise may increase the load on the heart, but you can exercise in moderation. So what kind of exercise is good for heart disease? What exercises can you do if you have heart failure?

1. What kind of exercise is good for heart disease

Exercise improves the condition and reduces the risk of mortality

Exercise can train muscle strength and increase lung capacity, which is good for patients with heart failure. Generally speaking, moderate exercise can increase cardiopulmonary tolerance, thereby improving symptoms, improving quality of life, and reducing mortality. According to the latest research, exercise therapy and cardiac rehabilitation can reduce cardiovascular-related mortality by 20 to 30%.

Aerobic exercise is suitable for patients with heart failure

There are many types of exercise, which one is suitable for patients with heart failure? Mild to moderate aerobic exercise is more suitable, such as walking and jogging. It is best to adopt a gradual approach and slowly increase to 3 times a week for 30 minutes each time. Strenuous exercise and competitive activities, including weight training, should be avoided. It is easy to increase the burden on the heart. In addition, you should also pay attention to the environment in which you exercise to avoid too large a temperature difference. The optimal temperature for the environment is 25 to 28 degrees Celsius, and you should choose a place with good air circulation.

Older people should pay attention if they feel unwell and stop quickly

If you experience dizziness, dizziness, palpitations, chest pain, or unbearable difficulty breathing during exercise, you should stop exercising immediately to avoid There is danger to life. Clinical statistics show that patients with heart disease who engage in strenuous exercise have a higher risk of sudden death, while most heart failure patients are elderly. The chance of sudden death and acute myocardial infarction after exercise is also higher than that of general heart disease patients.

Cardiac rehabilitation reduces the worsening of cardiovascular disease

Moderate exercise helps heart rehabilitation. In fact, cardiac rehabilitation in a broad sense covers exercise therapy, drug treatment, smoking cessation, and nutritional consultation. and multidisciplinary intervention such as psychological assistance. Behavioral changes can effectively improve physical and mental health, restore social functions, and further reduce the progression of cardiovascular diseases, including acute myocardial infarction, post-coronary angioplasty, post-open heart surgery, as well as heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases. Applicable.

2. How to care for patients with heart disease

1. Guide patients or family members to establish a reasonable living system and amount of activity according to the condition, and avoid strenuous exercise and heavy physical labor. Pay attention to preventing colds, pneumonia, skin trauma, etc. Strengthen nutrition, rationally prepare diet, and increase resistance. Strengthen early childhood education, promote their psychological and intellectual development, reduce the impact of diseases on children, and make them useful people to society. Go to the hospital for regular check-ups and receive medical guidance. If you have palpitations, shortness of breath, cyanosis, edema, etc., seek medical attention immediately.

2. Psychological care for patients with heart disease: Patients have been sick since childhood, which can easily lead to poor mental development, poor social adaptability, and excessive dependence on parents. At the same time, patients who have been cared for and pampered by their families for a long time often pay too much attention to their physical condition. Patients and their families do not understand or exaggerate the condition, coupled with many influencing factors such as poor financial status, patients are prone to anxiety, tension, fear, etc. Therefore, patients should be cared for and cared for, and their reasonable requirements should be met as much as possible, such as requiring so-and-so companionship, dining habits, etc. Provide explanations to patients and their families, help them answer various questions, and encourage patients to cooperate with treatment.

3. Oxygen therapy care for patients with heart disease. Generally, hypoxic patients are given oxygen therapy as directed by the doctor; patients with acute pulmonary edema are given intermittent oxygen inhalation with 30~50% alcohol; patients with chronic corpus pulmonary heart disease are given continuous low flow. Inhale oxygen; those with respiratory insufficiency use a mask to inhale pressurized oxygen and perform mechanical ventilation if necessary.

4. Excretion care for heart disease patients encourages bedridden patients to eat more fruits, vegetables, and fiber-rich foods, and develop a daily defecation habit. Those with constipation can be given laxatives or low-pressure enemas. Critically ill patients should record 24-hour urine output and measure their weight regularly.

5. Life care for heart disease patients provides assistance with daily life and personal hygiene for patients with cardiac insufficiency, acute myocardial infarction, severe arrhythmia, and acute myocarditis. According to the needs of the patient's condition and wishes, the patient is placed in a supine position, a sitting position, a semi-sitting position, a 4-position position with the head down and feet high, a side-lying position, etc. Those with mild illness are encouraged to move appropriately.

The above is an explanation of "What are the care tasks for heart disease patients". To prevent our bodies from being harmed, good living habits are also essential. In fact, many people have poor daily living habits. As a result, I suffered from heart disease, and it would be better to take the above care methods.