An excruciating cough that intensifies at the slightest physical strain and interferes with a full night's rest, is often a sign of heart failure. In diseases associated with the valvular apparatus defects, abnormal aortic changes and vessel spasms, a reflex dry cough that changes into cardiac asthma that threatens the onset of pulmonary edema is observed. The severity of the disease actualizes the need for knowledge of the symptoms of cardiac cough and the ways of its treatment.
How to recognize a heart cough?
Reliably determine that the cough is associated with cardiac changes, only the specialist can do. Nevertheless, it is possible to understand that this is a consequence of the pathology of the cardiovascular system. Signs of a heart cough:
- heartache;
- palpitation and shortness of breath;
- swelling of the cervical veins;
- Cyanosis is possible;
- edema;
- dry cough, less often - with the release of viscous pinkish sputum.
All symptoms are aggravated when the patient is lying down.
How to treat a heart cough?
Having found the above signs, it is necessary to immediately begin treatment of a heart cough with a specialist. To ease attacks are prescribed tablets from a heart cough:
- vasodilators (Lozartan, Atakand);
- antitussive drugs;
- diuretics (Veroshpiron, Indapamide).
Vasodilators with cardiac cough are used for the purpose of vasodilation, and diuretics, removing fluid, reduce the load on the circulatory system.
Important for improving the condition is the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle, which includes:
- refusal from alcohol and smoking;
- providing moderate physical activity;
- Staying in the fresh air;
- high-grade dream;
- decrease in the amount of salt intake;
- ban on harmful to the body products (fast food, carbonated drinks, fatty and smoked food).
Treatment of cardiac cough with folk remedies
As an aid to cough for heart failure, as well as for the prevention, can be used drugs, prepared according to folk recipes. Herbal preparations have a mild effect on the cardiovascular system.
Recipe # 1
Ingredients:
- 10 lemons;
- 10 heads of garlic;
- 1 kg of honey (ideally - lime).
Preparation of healing elixir
- Unrefined lemons must be poured with boiling water.
- After 15 - 20 minutes, the citrus juice is squeezed into which the crushed garlic is added and the honey is dissolved in the water bath.
- All ingredients are thoroughly mixed.
- The mixture is spread into a glass jar and insisted in a dark place for 10 days.
The finished drug is taken 4 times a day for one teaspoon in the reception. The course of therapy is from several months to six months.
Recipe 2
Ingredients:
- hawthorn (inflorescence);
- Melissa;
- yarrow;
- coronoid broom;
- valerian (root).
All components are taken in a volume of 50 grams, crushed and mixed.
Preparation
- A tablespoon of herbal tea is poured into a glass of boiling water.
- After the liquid is infused for half an hour, it is drunk.
It is recommended to take three times a day.
Recipe 3
Ingredients:
- motherwort:
- mistletoe;
- nettle leaf;
- Melissa;
- lovage ;
- root of valerian;
- rosehip berries;
- berries of hawthorn;
- inflorescence of hawthorn.
The ingredients, taken in equal amounts, are finely ground and mixed.
Preparation
- A tablespoon of the plant mixture is poured into a glass of steep boiling water.
- Under the lid, the drug is drunk at a time.
Take the drug should be 3 times a day.