The victim of such a serious illness as myocarditis can be each of us. After all, the development of this disease can provoke even the reception of drugs. About possible causes, principles of treatment and prevention of myocarditis, read in this article.
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Causes of myocarditis
Symptoms of myocarditis
Principles of treatment of myocarditis
Myocarditis: Prevention and forecast
Myocarditis is the inflammation of the middle shell of the heart (myocardium). Myocarditis can develop independently or be complicing another infectious disease. Most often myocarditis occurs in persons aged 20-40 years, men are more often than in women. The most common cause of myocarditis is an infection, especially viral, but sometimes bacterial. In some cases, myocarditis is caused by the reception of drugs and other drugs, in this case myocarditis is toxico-allergic.
With viral myocarditis, myocardial cells are affected by the virus. First, the virus breeds, which is accompanied by an inflammatory response in myocardium. Then the virus leaves myocardial cells and begins to circulate blood. In case of bacterial myocarditis, myocardial cells are damaged by bacterial life. Myocarditis can develop both during the infectious disease and after it.
Symptoms of myocarditis
Against the background of the main infectious disease, myocarditis can leak low-powerly, disguised as the main disease. In some cases, the symptoms of myocarditis are very hard, often in the form of heart failure.
Myocardite patients feel heartbeat, unpleasant sensations in the field of heart, weakness, shortness of breath, fainting may appear. Temperature of the body is somewhat raised, the pulse is rapid, weak filling, patient pale. Blood pressure due to concomitant vascular failure reduced. The chronic course of myocarditis is characterized by the development of stagnant heart failure.
Principles of treatment of myocarditis
With myocarditis, the patient must be observed to observe a strict bed mode until the complete cessation of the heart manifestations of the disease. Motor recovery period is gradually held.
In a sharp period of the disease, a diet is prescribed, excluding meat dishes. Limit the reception of the liquid and cook salt, especially when heart failure appears. Food should be easily digested and vitamined. Reception should be frequent, but small portions. In a bacterial infection, antibiotics are prescribed, and cytostatics are prescribed when viral infection. Desensitizing and anti-inflammatory therapy. Prescribed drugs that improve metabolic processes in myocardium. The rehabilitation period should be held in a cardiology sanatorium. For two or three years, the patient must be under dispensary observation in the clinic.
After the disappearance of edema, shorts in peace and t.D. prescribe therapeutic physical education under strict medical supervision. Start with breathing exercises and exercises for small and medium muscular groups of hands and legs. With good health of the patient, the volume of gymnastic exercises is gradually expanding, and with the easiest course of therapeutic physical culture from the first days of the disease.
Myocarditis: Prevention and forecast
Myocarditis Prevention is the prevention and timely treatment of myocarditis diseases. Special attention is paid to the fight against chronic infection (tonsillitis, sinusitis, and t.D.). In some cases, recovery after myocarditis may be incomplete, in which case residual changes in myocardium are preserved.
The forecast depends on the origin of myocarditis: the process resulting from an infectious disease, as a rule, ends with the recovery of the patient. Rheumatic and infectious allergic myocarditis has a tendency to re-occur (relapses). However, the dispensary observation and timely prophylactic treatment of patients with these forms of myocarditis warns his relapses.