Friday, October 26, 2007

How to prevent viral myocarditis?

Viral myocarditis is the people's attention in recent years were not a heart attack. With the vast majority of young people. Viral myocarditis is a cold virus directly after invasive heart, myocardial damage, the impact of myocardial blood supply to the virus or toxin in the local, central nervous system involvement, occurred secondary to myocardial damage. This disease has no clear seasonal, casual most of the patients in the event for a little pop. Viral Myocarditis is caused by a combination of the virus, Coxsackie virus disease is an important source of the disease. Influenza virus, mumps virus, polio virus and intestinal virus, and so can cause myocarditis occurred. But the disease has also smoking, drinking and malnutrition, fatigue, trauma and exposure to toxic substances related. The incidence of viral myocarditis in the former mostly have flu symptoms. So often mistakenly considered to be suffering from the flu and delay the diagnosis and treatment of viral myocarditis. Apart from the onset of viral myocarditis a few days before flu symptoms, there are continuing flustered, shortness of breath, low blood pressure, easy sweating, fatigue weakness, chest tightness and pressure area before heart. Weight can have breathing difficulties and heart failure performance. Checks can be found in patients with a first heart sound weakened and fourth heart sounds. ECG can be a slow or too fast heartbeat, T-wave, variable tip or inverted. Also at the same time with varying degrees of atrioventricular block, and so on. Currently, for the treatment of viral myocarditis no special approach, mainly emphasized early rest and symptomatic treatment, the acute phase can be antitoxic drug therapy, such as amantadine, such as interferon and cytarabine. Selection of vitamin C, inosine, ATP, coenzyme A, cytochrome can promote myocardial metabolism. In addition primers, medicine Banlangen, licorice, Guizhi, such as Salvia has on the treatment of viral myocarditis role. In order to prevent viral myocarditis, should first prevent colds, intestinal viral infection, often took part in physical training and improve physical resistance capability, often living room window ventilation, maintain fresh air. In the cold season, we should as far as possible to overcrowded places, and should prevent all kinds of infection. Once a virus must pay attention to rest and avoid fatigue, not smoking, drinking.

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