What to eat with heart valve disease?

Building a healthy diet suitable for patients with valvular heart disease plays an important role in preventing cardiovascular risks and events, reducing the burden on the heart, prolonging the disease progression, and helping the disease to progress. have a long healthy life. In addition to foods that should be eaten, good for health, patients with valvular heart disease need to be aware of foods that are not good for the cardiovascular system.

1. What is valvular regurgitation?

Heart valve regurgitation is a condition in which the heart valves do not close properly during the pumping process of the heart, causing blood to be pushed back into the chambers of the heart. This causes the heart to strengthen its contractions to meet the needs of pumping blood to feed the whole body, leading to heart failure in the long run. Heart valve regurgitation includes mitral regurgitation, tricuspid regurgitation, aortic regurgitation, and pulmonary valve regurgitation.
Diet does not directly affect the treatment of valvular heart disease, however, some foods promote atherosclerosis and calcification of heart valves, affect the effect of anticoagulants, promote the process of cardiovascular disease. heart failure and cardiovascular events such as atherosclerosis, myocardial ischemia, myocardial infarction, etc. Therefore, patients with valvular regurgitation should strictly follow a strict diet and enhance beneficial foods. Have a cardiovascular system, exercise regularly.

2. Heart valve disease should not eat anything?

Limit salt intake
Eating salty foods increases blood pressure, increases pressure on blood vessels, thereby increasing the burden on the heart leading to heart failure. Patients with valvular heart disease need to reduce the burden on the heart, maintain a stable blood pressure The recommended amount of salt in patients with valvular heart disease is 2-4g per day, so the dishes should be processed lighter, should not be eaten. foods containing a lot of salt such as fish sauce, seafood, ...

Bệnh nhân mắc hở van tim nên hạn chế ăn mặn

Avoid stimulants such as tea, coffee, alcohol, tobacco. Using these stimulants increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.
Smoking: Smoking increases the risk of atherosclerosis leading to coronary heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure. People with heart valve disease need to quit smoking to reduce the risk of atherosclerosis and reduce the burden on the heart. Tea and coffee: Tea and coffee contain caffeine, theobromine, theophylline, L-theanine, which stimulates the sympathetic nervous system, which destabilizes physiological activities such as palpitations, palpitations, and tachycardia. Patients with valvular regurgitation regularly use coffee and tea for a long time, which can lead to heart failure and anxiety disorders. In addition, tea and coffee can lead to increased blood pressure, slow blood transport, make heart valve disease worse. Drinking a lot of alcohol and beer: Alcohol causes many harmful effects on organs such as the liver, pancreas, kidneys, and brain and heart. People with valvular heart disease should avoid consuming alcoholic beverages as they can cause arrhythmias and worsen symptoms. Limit soluble fats such as animal fats, cheese milk, coconut oil, palm oil, canned foods, fried foods, processed meats like sausages, bacon,...
Substances This soluble fat causes hypercholesterolemia, increases the risk of atherosclerosis, burdens the blood vessels and heart, and increases the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke. When the blood vessels are atherosclerotic, the heart has to work harder to meet the blood supply for the whole body. Therefore, the disease condition in people with heart valve regurgitation will become serious. Do not use foods containing refined carbohydrates
Refined carbohydrates including white bread, sugar and sweeteners, ... people with heart valve regurgitation should not use these foods because the processing process has been done. remove healthy ingredients such as fiber, minerals, fatty acids and other natural ingredients.

Bánh mì trắng chứa nhiều Carbohydrate tinh chế không tốt cho bệnh nhân hở van tim

In addition, in the processing process, bad ingredients such as trans fat and sugar are added to the process, which adversely affect the cardiovascular system. Do not drink soft drinks, carbonated drinks: Soft drinks and carbonated drinks contain very high sugar content, making it easy to gain weight quickly, increasing the burden on the heart. Therefore, people with cardiovascular disease, including heart valve regurgitation, should avoid consuming these unhealthy drinks.
To protect your heart health in general and detect early signs of a heart attack in particular, you can sign up for the Cardiovascular Screening Package - Basic Cardiovascular Examination of Vinmec International General Hospital. The examination package helps to detect cardiovascular problems at the earliest through tests and modern imaging methods. The package is for all ages, genders and is especially essential for people with risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
Customers can directly go to Vinmec Health system nationwide to visit or contact the hotline here for support.

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