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What Is The Best Remedy For Continuous Cough For A Heart Patient ?
Hi, this is regarding My Mother in law. She is 72 years, Weight 63 Kgs. She has undergone by pass surgery in 2004 and got 3 stent in heart in March ,11 in fortis Mohali. She continuously suffers from cough and we keep regular follow ups with her heart surgeon . but nothing is helping her. she takes very limited liquid as her lungs get filled up with water. Nothing is helping her out and she is hardly sleeping in the night too, She always feels like spiting out the white foamy sputum. We consulted pulmnologist too but no help. Can you please guide some good medicine. Is it side effect of some medicine?
Thu, 12 Jan 2012
Hello jyoti;
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The continuous cough with out any infection in heart patients can be mainly due to 2 reasons:-
-if the working capacity of heart is reduced that is ejection fraction of left ventricle is reduced then in such a patient there will be cough due to water getting filled in lungs and is medically called as congestive cardiac failure and this will happen more on exertion like walking;doing some work;climbing stairs etc.
-second reason for the cough if it is disturbing but not harming the health of a patient can be due to side effects of some medicines like Losartan/Telmisartan/Enalapril/Ramipril which belong to group of ACE inhibitors and these drugs are used and are important to improve the functioning capacity of heart as well as to control hypertension.
Please see and discuss the points i have suggested and in case if it is due to medicines then the Cardiologist may change the medicine or reduce the dose.And if it due to congestive failure then the doctor may increase the dose of or add a diuretic to reduce the water and she should feel better.
Thanks
welcome to HealthcareMagic
The continuous cough with out any infection in heart patients can be mainly due to 2 reasons:-
-if the working capacity of heart is reduced that is ejection fraction of left ventricle is reduced then in such a patient there will be cough due to water getting filled in lungs and is medically called as congestive cardiac failure and this will happen more on exertion like walking;doing some work;climbing stairs etc.
-second reason for the cough if it is disturbing but not harming the health of a patient can be due to side effects of some medicines like Losartan/Telmisartan/Enalapril/Ramipril which belong to group of ACE inhibitors and these drugs are used and are important to improve the functioning capacity of heart as well as to control hypertension.
Please see and discuss the points i have suggested and in case if it is due to medicines then the Cardiologist may change the medicine or reduce the dose.And if it due to congestive failure then the doctor may increase the dose of or add a diuretic to reduce the water and she should feel better.
Thanks
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