Regular physical activity makes your heart stronger so it can pump more blood with less effort. this means there will be less force on your arteries, lowering your blood pressure. if your blood pressure is normal, activity can keep it from rising. if you have hypertension, managing your blood pressure...
NURSES DIARY
The two main challenges I have encountered as a Heart Failure Nurse is Language barrier which may lead to miscommunication and compromise the patient-nurse relationship and non adherence with medication which breaks the continuity of care and increases the risk for hospitalization. LANGUAGE BARRIER: Most of the patients I see...
Coping with Congestive Heart Failure:
There is a high prevalence of congestive heart failure within the South East Indian population, which has many contributing factors, such as biology, food/ alcohol intake, and exercise (Nag & Ghosh, 2013). Given genetic factors cannot be changed, it becomes important to know that many times mental health factors can...
CONTROLLING FLUID INTAKE IN HEART FAILURE
Heart failure occurs when your heart is unable to pump blood strongly enough for your body to get oxygen and nutrients it needs. In some cases, fluid can build up in your lungs, kidneys and other parts of your body causing: Shortness of Breath Feeling Tired Swelling of Abdomen, Feet...
South Asian and Heart Disease
Despite advances in medicine and technology, heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in Canada and worldwide. it has been shown that the impact of coronary artery disease (CAD) differs among various ethnic groups, and within this, the south Asian population is considered to be at highest...
Health Eating
Choose high-fiber foods more often. These would include whole wheat bread, whole wheat flour (atta), Brown rice, oatmeal, beans (rajmah, cholay/ chana, lobia etc), psyllium (isabgol), fruits, vegetables. A healthy diet can help lower your risk of heart disease and stroke by: improving your cholesterol levels reducing your blood pressure...
Understanding fats
TRANS FAT can be found naturally in small amounts in some foods, such as dairy and beef products. Man-made trans fats can increase your LDL cholesterol (bad) and decrease HDL cholesterol (good). Most trans fats are MAN MADE from vegetable oils, and are the worst fats for your heart. Trans...
WHAT IS DIABETES?
Diabetes can happen anyone! today, diabetes takes more lives than aids and Breast Cancer combined and is a problem people are experiencing worldwide. so what exactly is diabetes? In order to understand that we first need to understand what happens to the body when we do something as simple as...
Medicines to control Blood Pressure
WHAT IS Blood Pressure? When your heart beats, it pumps blood round your body to give it the energy and oxygen it needs. As the blood moves, it pushes against the sides of the blood vessels. Your blood pressure reading is based on two measures called systolic and diastolic. The...
Do you suffer from SLEEP APNEA?
Do you suffer from SLEEP APNEA? Obstructive SLEEP APNEA is when a person stops breathing many times during the night. Breathing stops because the airway collapses and stops air from getting into the lungs. This can cause extra sleepiness or feeling tired during the day. One of the most common...