Sudden drop in temperature required to prevent respiratory tract infection

These two days, the capital, a sudden temperature drop, admissions of patients in major hospitals, many suffering from upper respiratory tract infection. Perhaps many people do not think that this is intended that this is just a small one disease. However, experts advise, no matter what diseases should be actively treated won, dragged a long time will “quietly” deterioration, such as suffering from upper respiratory tract infection two weeks after the event occurs when air is inadequate, palpitation, suffocation and other symptoms, then the would need to guard against would induce rheumatic heart valvular disease, which is commonly known as rheumatic heart disease.
People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, Cardiothoracic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, ZHANG Yi-ming, deputy director of rheumatic valvular disease is the most common heart disease, also known as rheumatic heart disease, referred to as rheumatic heart disease. In adult cardiovascular diseases account for about 40%. Clinically, with pure mitral valve disease is most common, 70% to 80%, followed by mitral valve associated with aortic valve disease, 20% to 30%. More in winter and spring disease, more common in children and young people, and has a tendency to recurrent seizures.
In general, the incidence of rheumatic heart disease causes and living environment, cold, wet, and upper respiratory tract infection caused by tonsillitis, pharyngitis and other factors. Hemolytic streptococcal infection, Streptococcus and its metabolites caused by the immune response, leading to the heart of chronic non-suppurative inflammatory changes, resulting in heart damage.
Rheumatic heart disease is the autoimmune disease, often involving the entire heart, including pericardium, myocardium and endocardium, severe inflammation can also make heart valves, so called rheumatic carditis, or pancarditis.
“The wind of early heart disease can be asymptomatic, with exacerbations occur fatigue, palpitation shortness of breath, paroxysmal dyspnea, cough, vomiting foamy sputum phenomenon, or see hemoptysis, chest pain, dysphagia, crimson lips, the two zygomatic Purple red. By the late complications occur, such as fever, lower limb swelling, ascites, infective endocarditis, embolism, heart failure and even cardiac arrest and sudden death. “ZHANG Yi-ming, deputy director, said.
As the saying goes, “preventive measures”, rheumatic heart disease as well. People always seen as a kind of upper respiratory tract infection and less concerned about minor ailments, in fact, it can cause many diseases, rheumatic heart disease with upper respiratory tract infection caused by rheumatic fever are directly related.
It is therefore recommended: always pay attention to hygiene room, right after the upper respiratory tract infection in acute tonsillitis, pharyngitis, otitis media and lymph node Yandeng acute streptococcal infection should actively definitive treatment to prevent the development of rheumatic fever which led to heart valve damage.
Reminded that if the upper respiratory tract infection occurs around two weeks after the event palpitation, shortness of breath and other symptoms, we must promptly to the hospital for examination and treatment.
In general, rheumatic heart disease early detection, timely and standardized manner of drug treatment can effectively control, to avoid the repeated attacks which led to heart valve damage and heart damage.