Can people with heart disease drink alcohol?

Written by Zhang Yue Mei

Cardiology

Updated on September 04, 2024

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Patients with heart disease should not consume alcohol, especially those with severe heart conditions such as coronary heart disease, severe arrhythmias, and viral myocarditis. These patients especially should avoid alcohol as they need to use many medications during treatment. If they consume alcohol, the alcohol entering the body can chemically interact with some medications, leading to reduced efficacy, diminished effects, or causing side effects. Additionally, for these heart disease patients, consuming alcohol can increase the burden on the heart and exacerbate symptoms of heart disease.

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What foods should people with heart disease eat?

Patients with heart disease should adopt a diet that is low in fat, salt, and oil in their daily lives, and they should try to eat more fruits and vegetables that are high in vitamins, trace elements, and dietary fiber. They can frequently eat foods such as sea cucumber, eggs, milk, beef tendon, lean meat, rabbit meat, belt fish, yellow croaker, shrimp, and others that contain a good amount of high-quality protein needed by the human body, and have lower cholesterol. Continuous consumption over time can enhance the body's immunity and disease resistance.

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How to prevent heart disease

In clinical settings, heart diseases include congenital heart disease, coronary heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, pneumonic heart disease, cardiomyopathy, etc. Some diseases are preventable, such as the most common coronary heart disease. The occurrence of coronary heart disease is due to long-term lipid metabolism disorders and increased blood lipids, which cause arteriosclerosis and subsequent coronary atherosclerosis, leading to insufficient myocardial blood supply and myocardial damage. Preventing and treating hyperlipidemia and reducing arteriosclerosis can decrease the incidence of coronary heart disease.

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Can heart disease cause numbness in the hands?

Heart disease, such as coronary atherosclerotic heart disease, can potentially cause numbness in the hands. When angina or myocardial infarction of coronary heart disease occurs, there is often severe chest pain. This chest pain may be accompanied by pain and numbness in the left shoulder or left hand. During episodes of pain, an electrocardiogram often shows significant ST depression or ST elevation. This condition is commonly seen in middle-aged and elderly patients. In addition, cervical spondylosis can also cause numbness in the hands, often seen in young people who spend long periods looking down at their mobile phones or using computers, usually showing symptoms of neck pain. A cervical spine MRI can often determine whether cervical spondylosis is causing these symptoms.

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How long does heart disease generally hurt?

1. Chest pain caused by angina due to coronary heart disease is located in the middle to lower third of the sternum, with unclear boundaries. It is often triggered by physical activities or emotional excitement and may radiate to the throat, lower jaw, left shoulder, and inner side of the left arm. The pain lasts for a few minutes to more than ten minutes, typically between three to five minutes, and rarely exceeds half an hour. It can be relieved by rest or by taking nitroglycerin under the tongue. The nature of the pain is feelings of stuffiness, pressure, or constriction, and may also feel like a burning sensation, but is not sharp like needle pricks or cuts. 2. The location and nature of the chest pain in acute myocardial infarction are the same as with angina, but it lasts longer, is more severe, and its triggers are less evident. It can occur even while at rest, accompanied by symptoms such as sweating, nausea, vomiting, heart palpitations, and difficulty breathing. Unlike with angina, regular rest or taking nitroglycerin under the tongue does not completely alleviate the pain.

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Is hyperthyroid heart disease dangerous?

Hyperthyroidism can repeatedly cause an increase in heart rate and metabolism, which is quite active, causing a long-term overload of heart function, leading to the formation of hyperthyroid heart disease, a chronic pathological change process. In the middle and early stages, it generally does not pose a life-threatening risk, only manifesting symptoms such as palpitations, tightness after activity, breathlessness, or chest tightness, which can improve with rest. However, if hyperthyroidism is not cured for a long time, or if hyperthyroid heart disease is not treated in time, it can lead to severe heart failure. If there is a severe decline in heart pump function, causing the ejection fraction to be below 30%, it can easily cause sudden pump failure or severe arrhythmias, such as ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation, posing a life-threatening risk to the patient.