What dietary problems should patients with rheumatic heart disease pay attention to?

Avoid eating bitter, cold and spicy food: most patients with rheumatic heart disease have heart and spleen yang deficiency. If they eat too much bitter cold food, it will damage the yang of the human body and aggravate the condition. In addition, foods such as peppers and mustard will make the heart beat faster and increase the burden on the heart.

2. Quit smoking, drinking, strong tea and coffee: Because cigarettes produce a lot of carbon monoxide when burning. After carbon monoxide is inhaled into the body, it can cause systemic vasoconstriction, combine with hemoglobin in the blood, and reduce its function of transporting oxygen, resulting in myocardial ischemia and hypoxia, which is not good for the heart. Exciting and stimulating drinks such as wine, strong tea and coffee can raise blood pressure, enhance the excitability of nervous system, lead to an increase in heart rate and even induce arrhythmia, thus increasing the burden on the heart and damaging the function of myocardial valves. Therefore, patients with rheumatic heart disease should ban smoking and excite stimulating drinks.

3. Drink slowly: When drinking a lot of water, tea, soup, fruit juice, soda or other drinks at a time, the blood volume will increase rapidly, thus increasing the burden on the heart. Therefore, don't eat too many drinks, and it is best not to exceed 500 ml at a time.

4, often drink lemon juice. Oral lemon juice has a good effect on rheumatic heart disease.

5, reduce high-fat diet: high-fat diet is not easy to digest after intake, it will increase the burden on the heart, and some will have arrhythmia.