How to recognize the symptoms of heart failure?
During heart failure, the heart cannot supply the body with enough blood. The diagnosis does not mean that the heart has stopped working/functioning, but it is a condition when it is necessary to strengthen the organ with appropriate medical measures, to alleviate the symptoms.
Heart failure can develop at any age, although the diagnosis is more common in the elderly.
Heart failure is a long-term disease that can get worse over time. In some clinical cases, a complete cure is not possible, although doctors can manage the symptoms for many years.
It is worth noting that the signs sometimes appear quickly (acute heart failure) or the symptoms develop over several weeks or months (chronic heart failure).
The main symptoms of heart failure are:
- Shortness of breath after physical activity or when a person is resting, i.e. not active;
- Feeling chronically tired, due to lack of energy, it is difficult for a person to do physical activity;
- feeling of heart failure;
- Swollen feet;
- Chronic cough, rapid heartbeat and dizziness.
