Smaller meals. Dilated cardiomyopathy patients should not eat too much, the total daily caloric intake in 4 to 5 times, in order to reduce postprandial gastrointestinal overfilling and diaphragmatic elevation, to avoid increased workload of the heart. Dinner should be eaten earlier, should be light, no or less food and water after dinner.
Limit sodium. This is a more appropriate way to control heart failure. To reduce edema, salt should be limited to about 3 grams or less per day.
Restrict protein and caloric intake appropriately. Heart failure, daily protein can be controlled at 25-30 grams, caloric 600 kilocalories; 2-3 days later, protein can be increased to 40-50 grams, caloric 1000-1500 kilocalories. After the disease improves gradually increase protein and caloric energy, but should not be too high, so as not to increase the load on the heart.
Eat easy-to-digest food. Dilated cardiomyopathy patients due to reduced blood circulation function, gastrointestinal stasis, edema, affecting the digestion and absorption of food. Therefore, the food should be easy to digest. At the beginning of the available fluid, semi-fluid diet, and then changed to soft rice.
Sufficient vitamins and inorganic salts, such as vitamin B1 and vitamin C, should be supplied to protect the heart muscle. Supply the right amount of calcium to maintain normal heart muscle activity. Potassium has a protective effect on the heart and causes arrhythmia when insufficient. When using diuretics, in addition to supplementing potassium, should also pay attention to the supply of magnesium and zinc.
According to the above dietary principles of adherence to the treatment, often can play a very good effect of auxiliary treatment. I hope that patients with dilated cardiomyopathy can strictly require themselves to pay more attention to promote the improvement and recovery of the disease.