Patients with heart failure should pay special attention to their daily life. He should pay attention to it from the moment he has a basic disease. First, don't be too fat and diet properly. For a patient with obvious symptoms, it is even more necessary to strictly control the diet. Generally, he can eat 60% to 70% full, eat less refined food and control his weight. Meng Qingzhi, Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Yuanda Cardiothoracic Hospital

What you can eat and what you can't eat is not absolute. The diet should be balanced, with more fruits and vegetables and less meat, eggs, rice and noodles.

Second, drink less water, especially patients who often have swollen legs and can't lie down. Do not drink more than 1500ml per day. The amount of water you drink every day is similar to the amount of urine you excrete, so you can live more comfortably.

Third, salt intake. For patients with heart failure, patients who take diuretics urinate more, so the amount of salt should be increased appropriately. If the salt is insufficient, the patient will have no spirit, low blood pressure, poor appetite and a bad mood. We should pay attention not only to the harm of salt, but also to its benefits. For patients with heart failure, salt should be limited appropriately.

In addition, patients taking diuretics must pay attention to adequate potassium supplement, and patients should eat potassium supplement tablets to avoid hypokalemia. Other patients can supplement a little magnesium, take a little multivitamins, or supplement some drugs containing other ions and trace elements, which will be beneficial to the overall recovery of patients.

The fourth is to keep warm, pay attention to preventing colds, and prescribe cold medicine as much as possible. Patients should exercise moderately, not beyond physical strength, and must give priority to not being tired.