Endocarditis, Treatment, and Prevention

Endocarditis is an inflammation or infection of the endocardium, which is the lining of the heart muscle and, more often, the heart valves. Endocarditis is an inflammation of the endocardium, the lining of the heart valves and heart.

The risk factors for endocarditis
Other predisposing factors include artificial heart valves, congenital heart disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and mitral valve prolapse with regurgitation. Most cases of endocarditis is a bacterial infection related. Normally, your body is fighting an infection, even if the bacteria get into your heart. Your risk increases if you suffer from heart disease, endocarditis, or mechanical heart valves.

Symptoms of endocarditis
Low fever, night sweats and weight loss are manifestations of the compass. New or modified sounds murmurs in patients with pre-existing in about 30% of confirmed cases. The most common symptom is a fever endocarditis.
• Fever
• chills
• muscle weakness
• Fatigue
• Night sweats
• Cough
• Weight Loss
• Heart murmur
• pain in the stomach, spleen heart attack
• Points of pain of the fingers or toes

The diagnosis of endocarditis
The diagnosis is usually suspected on the basis of medical history, symptoms and outcomes, like a new breath. It may be by blood tests (blood culture), are confirmed to find an infectious organism. Notes diagnosis noted Sir William Osler in the payment of the disease with lesions of heart valves, the results of embolic skin lesions and progressive cardiac abnormalities and 1908 are still relevant. A positive culture or histology of endocarditis was defined as a set. Important criteria for probable endocarditis have persistent bacteremia with a new valve regurgitation murmur or heart disease with vasculitis or negative bacteremia or fever and intermittent regurgitation new life to vasculitis.

The treatment of endocarditis
Endocarditis has serious consequences and requires aggressive treatment. Alternative therapies can be used together to reduce the severity, duration and course of disease, endocarditis should never be treated solely with alternative therapies. Your doctor may want you to test for food allergies. Use healthy oils in foods such as olive oil or vegetable oil. I-3 fatty acids, the effect of anticoagulants such as Coumadin. Vitamin C 500 - 1000 to stimulate mg per day as an antioxidant and the immune system. The alpha-lipoic acid, 25 to 50 mg twice daily support for antioxidants. Magnesium citrate, 200 to 400 mg per day for heart health. Resveratrol (red wine), 50 to 200 mg per day to reduce inflammation and antioxidant effect. Lycopene, 5 mg 1 to 3 times daily for blood pressure and reduce the antioxidant activity.

You can herbs as dried extracts (capsules, powders, teas), glycerites (glycerine extracts), or tinctures (alcoholic extracts). Green tea (Camellia sinensis) standardized extract, 250 to 500 mg per day for effects on the antioxidant and heart health. Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum), 150 to 300 mg 2-3 times per day to maintain the blood pressure up. Garlic (Allium sativum), standardized extract, 400 mg 2-3 times per day for heart health. Digitalis, if you have an irregular heartbeat with a feeling, as if to stop your heart if you have moved. Acupuncture can improve immunity and strengthen heart function.

Prevalence and risk factors
Although historically rheumatic valvulitis a risk factor for endocarditis was often seen, the times have changed. Mitral valve prolapse, bicuspid aortic sclerosis and aortic valve disease are the most common causes. In addition, the prosthetic valve heart disease about a third of all cases of endocarditis, and occurs in 1% to 3% of patients after cardiac valvular surgery. An important risk factor for endocarditis is IFDA. Cases of endocarditis with IFDA will normally be quickly practice on antibiotic therapy, but relapse.

Prevention of endocarditis
It is important that your doctor or dentist risk factors may have endocarditis. Those who are predisposing factors for bacterial endocarditis (including prosthetic valves, previous bacterial endocarditis, congenital heart disease, rheumatic valvular dysfunction, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and mitral valve prolapse with insufficiency) should be before the majority of medical antibiotics are given dental or surgical procedures, and any significant skin infection occurs. Your doctor will give you the antibiotic (s) to follow, and in some cases after the operation.