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- What makes a person at risk for heart failure?
- What is dopamine?
- What are the side effects of dopamine drugs?
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Heart failure does not mean the heart stops beating, but a series of symptoms that occur when your heart muscle cannot pump blood as much as it can.
What makes a person at risk for heart failure?
Risk factors that cause heart failure include:
- High blood pressure, which causes your heart to pump faster than it should
- Narrowing of the coronary arteries due to the presence of plaque, which then inhibits the circulation of oxygen in the body, eventually weakening the heart muscle (coronary artery disease)
- Heart attack
- Increasing your risk of exposure to high blood pressure and coronary artery disease due to diabetes
- Damage to the heart muscle due to infection with the virus
- Weakening of the heart muscle due to drinking too much alcohol
- Smoking habit
- Being overweight (obese) and
- An abnormal heartbeat.
Based on these risk factors, heart failure may not be cured, but can be treated with dopamine.
What is dopamine?
Dopamine is one alternative that can be done to overcome heart failure. Giving dopamine will increase the ability to pump the heart, so that the blood pumping towards the kidneys increases. It should be noted that, dopamine is not recommended to be given to someone with a history of:
- Coronary artery disease
- Blood circulation disorders
- History of blood clots
- Diabetes
- Skin damage due to extreme temperatures
- Asthma
- Pregnant and lactating mothers
Actually, the exact impact of dopamine on pregnant and lactating mothers is not yet known, but it is recommended that administration of dopamine to pregnant and lactating mothers should be under the care of health workers.
What are the side effects of dopamine drugs?
Dopamine is given by being injected through a vein. The dosage given varies, depending on the age and symptoms of the accompanying heart failure that appears. Unfortunately dopamine administration has side effects such as:
- Chest pain
- Irregular heartbeat
- Difficulties, pain and even bleeding when urinating
- Limp, swelling of the feet or heels
- Short breath
- Feeling burning, cold until your hands turn blue and
- Skin discoloration in the area of the hands or feet.
Therefore, although dopamine has been found as an alternative solution to treating heart failure, prevention is always better than cure.
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